Ronald Reagan’s reaction to the December 1981 Solidarity uprising in Poland (and the government’s attempt to suppress the movement) to Barack Obama’s Iranian non-reaction. HotAir has fodder. Go, see, pass on. And understand that this leader ain’t o…

Wait a minute…….You’re not Baghdad Bob are you?

Fed45 on June 17, 2009 at 10:10 AM

She voted for Obama. Yet she claims she voted for McCain. She changes her story because she is a concern troll.

I agree with O’s stance on this.

AnninCA on June 17, 2009 at 12:11 AM

Other than waiting for another opportunity to make a speech where he can reference himself, what exactly is Barry’s stance on this?

I agree with O’s stance on this. We have no real facts.

It’s a media event.

AnninCA on June 17, 2009 at 12:11 AM

Wait a minute…….You’re not Baghdad Bob are you?

As for S. America, he was ready to do whatever it took to defeat the communists in Nicaragua and El Salvador

Err…ummm…those countries would be in Central America (just because they are south of the U.S. doesn’t make it South America)

Fed45 on June 16, 2009 at 5:41 PM

Oops. Geography is probably the largest of the gaping holes in my gub’mint education. I stand rightly chastised and corrected.

I agree with O’s stance on this. We have no real facts.

It’s a media event.

AnninCA on June 17, 2009 at 12:11 AM

Bull, YOU have no facts on this, Obama has more information than any private citizen and that is why he is not saying anything. I don’t agree with bummers stance on anything.

Apples and oranges. Communism was our sworn enemy back then. Islam is our majority religion and our current president’s BFF.

warden on June 16, 2009 at 12:26 PM

All forms of oppression are our enemies.

fourdeucer on June 16, 2009 at 12:29 PM

Correct – and Obama is the biggest oppressor of the American people.
I HOPE we can CHANGE our president ASAP. Obama and his policies are anti-American. He and his liberal overloads must be stopped.

Read this from Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Retired)

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/lt-colonel-allen-wests-column-.html

GunRunner on June 16, 2009 at 9:38 PM

Yes, I never disputed that any of that. All I said was that the foreign mujahideen fighters were fighting for Islam. That’s how Pakistan’s ISI coaxed them into coming to Afghanistan in the first place. Not “come and fight freedom” but rather “come and fight a jihad for Allah and be a martyr”. That’s why it was so natural for them to go from attacking the Soviets to attacking the Serbs to attacking New York. It’s all the same to them as Momhammed ordered them to slay the non-believers – Hindu, Presbyterian or Jew.

He was inept when it came to Africa, South America, and the Middle East.

Nonfactor on June 16, 2009 at 4:56 PM

You need to do some reading on Reagan. That the Soviet Union failed while he was president was not an accident. He became president to deal with the threat and leader of oppression that the Soveit union was to the world. He did that and the world was better for it. Ask yourself just how much is bambi going to do for Africa, South America and the Middle east. What would be more fun would be to ask him over cheese burgers. Don’t ecxpect much more that sound bites an campain slogans.

Number of times Reagan used the word “free”: 4 (1 in reference to “free trade)

Number of times Reagan used the word “freedom” :3

Number of times Barry used the word “free”:1 (”free speech”)
Number of times Barry used the word “freedom”: 0

Reagan didn’t remain silent on Poland: …In mid-December 1981, the Polish government declared martial law, hoping to suppress the Solidarity uprising that started in Gdansk earlier that year.  The Soviet puppet Wojciech Jaruzelski imprisoned thousa…

I agree with O’s stance on this. We have no real facts.

It’s a media event.

AnninCA on June 17, 2009 at 12:11 AM

If we have no “real facts,” why did President Obama state, “I am deeply troubled by the violence that I’ve been seeing on television?” Or, “I see violence perpetrated on people who are peacefully dissenting?” Is he being hoodwinked by a “media event?”

And what kind of governments “clamp down on foreign media,” as the BBC reported, because of a “media event?”

Media event: a publicity event staged for coverage by the news media (Webster’s Dictionary)

How many deaths of unarmed civilians, how many arrests, how many thousands or tens of thousands or millions of Iranians must demonstrate in the streets before you would consider this not to be simply “a media event?”

How do you support appeasement and such a tepid response to a tyrannical government that is developing nuclear weapons and vows to wipe Israel off the map? How do you justify sending a message to tyrants around the world that the United States will not even denounce such treatment of unarmed civilians? How do you turn on and off your empathy like this?

I agree with O’s stance on this. We have no real facts.

It’s a media event.

AnninCA on June 17, 2009 at 12:11 AM

Of course you support O-hole’s stance, because Kennedy’s words: “Bear any Burden, Support any Friend, Oppose any Foe, to Serve the Cause of Liberty” have no meaning to you.

Reagan’s words of the U.S. being the “Shining City on the Hill” have no meaning to you.

You are far more worried that someone has to pay $250.00 a month and $10.00 copay for their medical exam and Medical Insurance.

If you are at all interested, you should listen to the Iranians calling into radio stations here in this Country, it would break your heart.

But of course it will has nothing to do with the “HealthCare” debate.

It’s a media event.