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Posted on 5/11/15 at 10:21 pm to Landmass
His "A time for choosing" speech is my favorite.
Watch this excerpt from the speech and pretend he is talking about ISIS and Islamic terrorism rather than the Soviets and Cold War and it'll amaze you at how right he would be today if he was alive giving the same speech.
Appeasement of the enemy today is the problem
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Watch this excerpt from the speech and pretend he is talking about ISIS and Islamic terrorism rather than the Soviets and Cold War and it'll amaze you at how right he would be today if he was alive giving the same speech.
Appeasement of the enemy today is the problem
LINK
Posted on 5/11/15 at 10:25 pm to Stacked
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It’s all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It’s all part of taking a chance and expanding man’s horizons. The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we’ll continue to follow them...
Nothing ends here; our hopes and our journeys continue.”
Well, from how America has gone since then, and hell a good decade before it, he was incredibly wrong. We haven't given a damn about anything but immediate materialism since the 70s.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 10:26 pm to Stacked
My favorite is from our first president.
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“All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and Associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, controul counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the Constituted authorities are distructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They serve to Organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; often a small but artful and enterprizing minority of the Community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public Administration the Mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the Organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modefied by mutual interests. However combinations or Associations of the above description may now & then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, & to usurp for themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 10:29 pm to Stacked
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Not talking about his or others politics. Just that we used to be talked to differently by our leaders. More straightforward, more inspiring, less sugar-coating.
I don't buy it since the space program was stagnant in Reagan's time, and has continued this path. It'd be one thing if Kennedy or Nixon made this speech, but Reagan, no. The Challenger was a tragedy, but it wasn't pressing the boundaries of mankind's achievement in the same way the Saturn V was.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 10:37 pm to Stacked
The United States needs another Ronald Reagan. /thread.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 7:35 am to OMLandshark
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The Challenger was a tragedy, but it wasn't pressing the boundaries of mankind's achievement in the same way the Saturn V was.
The challenger mission was sending an every-day person into space. Something still trying to be repeated almost 30 years later.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 8:33 am to OMLandshark
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I don't buy it since the space program was stagnant in Reagan's time, and has continued this path. It'd be one thing if Kennedy or Nixon made this speech, but Reagan, no. The Challenger was a tragedy, but it wasn't pressing the boundaries of mankind's achievement in the same way the Saturn V was.
Yeah, the Challenger disaster basically set back space exploration for awhile.
Reagan was an actor, very good communicator with common people. That is why people loved him, and why he got the nickname "The Great Communicator."
Posted on 5/12/15 at 9:05 am to Stacked
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The challenger mission was sending an every-day person into space. Something still trying to be repeated almost 30 years later.
not exactly a great feat as the first cosmonauts were primates. not to mention bill nelson had just returned from space 10 days prior.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 9:17 am to kywildcatfanone
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Easily the greatest President of my lifetime.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 9:26 am to Stacked
Upvote because it's Reagan and that was one of his finest moments as a leader. There's a reason why he's my avatar.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 9:34 am to Stacked
The only true, from the heart speech we have gotten from a modern president was Eisenhower bashing the military–industrial complex. Everything since then has been produced through collaboration and poll pandering.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 9:42 am to OMLandshark
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We haven't given a damn about anything but immediate materialism since the 70s.
Speak for yourself, mane.
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