President seeks to get rid of all nuclear weapons

[Meathead]

“It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth"

Well said Mr President!

Those words uttered by a powerful president would ring positively. Uttered by Obama they fall flat.

 

[Two Thumbs]

“It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth"

Well said Mr President!

he wants to get rid of all nukes, something that will never happen, but he can't not re-sign the Patriot Act.


yea, well said poser

Uh, @Two Thumbs -you do realize which President said that, right?

It was Ronald Reagan.

I thought you liked Reagan.

Why did you call Ronald Reagan a "poser"?

Tsk, tsk...

he clearly had no intention of getting rid of them

and obama clearly stated that he was going to get rid of the Patriot act and that it was unamerican to let the debt go over 6 billlon

so he's a poser as well

 

[Statistikhengst]

“It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth"

Well said Mr President!

he wants to get rid of all nukes, something that will never happen, but he can't not re-sign the Patriot Act.


yea, well said poser

Uh, @Two Thumbs -you do realize which President said that, right?

It was Ronald Reagan.

I thought you liked Reagan.

Why did you call Ronald Reagan a "poser"?

Tsk, tsk...

he clearly had no intention of getting rid of them

and obama clearly stated that he was going to get rid of the Patriot act and that it was unamerican to let the debt go over 6 billlon

so he's a poser as well

And that statement of yours is based on?

 

[Statistikhengst]

“It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth"

Well said Mr President!

Those words uttered by a powerful president would ring positively. Uttered by Obama they fall flat.

Only in the ears of partisan hacks who want him to fail.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Mondales 1984 campaign ad on nukes and trying to play the fear card on Reagan. Laughable.

Ronald Reagan's 1984 SOTU address:



"There is only one sane policy for your country and mine, to preserve our civilization in this modern age. A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely?"

Listen to the rousing applause from the joint session of Congress - Democrats and Republicans alike.

Why do you hate Ronald Reagan so much?

Reagan did two things:

A.) His approach to nuclear arms was not producing television ads with children in them and trying to scare the public.
B.) His approach to reducing the threat of a nuclear war was breaking the Soviet Union which he helped facilitate. Democrats in the 1980's could never envision a world without the Soviet Union. They thought it was a permanent fixture. Reagan did not.

I agree with B. Some.

 

[Meathead]

“It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth"

Well said Mr President!

Those words uttered by a powerful president would ring positively. Uttered by Obama they fall flat.

Only in the ears of partisan hacks who want him to fail.

It is no longer a question of wanting Obama to fail. It is failure itself borne in large part by very weak leadership. The state of America today and its downward spiral bear witness.

 

[Two Thumbs]

“It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth"

Well said Mr President!

he wants to get rid of all nukes, something that will never happen, but he can't not re-sign the Patriot Act.


yea, well said poser

Uh, @Two Thumbs -you do realize which President said that, right?

It was Ronald Reagan.

I thought you liked Reagan.

Why did you call Ronald Reagan a "poser"?

Tsk, tsk...

he clearly had no intention of getting rid of them

and obama clearly stated that he was going to get rid of the Patriot act and that it was unamerican to let the debt go over 6 billlon

so he's a poser as well

And that statement of yours is based on?

8 years and we still have them today

sure he reduced them, to get russia to reduce (spend money they didn't have) theirs

 

[bendog]

Stupid move by a stupid liberal

If only obama was Caliph over the world. What a better place it would be. Life according to obama, everyplace.

Meanwhile more and more countries acquire more of them......is this guy connected to reality at all?

Barry Obumbler the clueless strikes again.

What a fucking moron.

I don't know what you guys are talking about

Obama didn't say these things, Ron Reagan did

I saw it coming. Nicely set up bait.

 

[rightwinger]

“It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth"

Well said Mr President!

he wants to get rid of all nukes, something that will never happen, but he can't not re-sign the Patriot Act.


yea, well said poser

Uh, @Two Thumbs -you do realize which President said that, right?

It was Ronald Reagan.

I thought you liked Reagan.

Why did you call Ronald Reagan a "poser"?

Tsk, tsk...

he clearly had no intention of getting rid of them

and obama clearly stated that he was going to get rid of the Patriot act and that it was unamerican to let the debt go over 6 billlon

so he's a poser as well

Are you calling Reagan a liar?

 

[rightwinger]

“It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth"

Well said Mr President!

he wants to get rid of all nukes, something that will never happen, but he can't not re-sign the Patriot Act.


yea, well said poser

Uh, @Two Thumbs -you do realize which President said that, right?

It was Ronald Reagan.

I thought you liked Reagan.

Why did you call Ronald Reagan a "poser"?

Tsk, tsk...

he clearly had no intention of getting rid of them

and obama clearly stated that he was going to get rid of the Patriot act and that it was unamerican to let the debt go over 6 billlon

so he's a poser as well

And that statement of yours is based on?

8 years and we still have them today

sure he reduced them, to get russia to reduce (spend money they didn't have) theirs

We have gone from 24,000 at the start of Reagans term to 7000 today
With the latest START treaty we will go down to 1500

Lets get it under 100

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Obama truly is the Prophet of Islam

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The President went on to say...

I can’t believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday–and this is what I have–my hope, way in the back of my head–is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, ‘Why not all the way? Let’s get rid of all these things’.”


Finally, a president who gets it

I'm glad to see you're finally giving Ronald Reagan the credit he deserves for working so we and our children would have better lives. If only people like you hadn't worked against him so much, he might have accomplished more.

I voted for Reagan and Bush four times....did you?

^ Pretty sure that's a total fucking lie

 

[rightwinger]

The President went on to say...

I can’t believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday–and this is what I have–my hope, way in the back of my head–is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, ‘Why not all the way? Let’s get rid of all these things’.”


Finally, a president who gets it

I'm glad to see you're finally giving Ronald Reagan the credit he deserves for working so we and our children would have better lives. If only people like you hadn't worked against him so much, he might have accomplished more.

I voted for Reagan and Bush four times....did you?

^ Pretty sure that's a total fucking lie

Just ask them

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The President went on to say...

I can’t believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday–and this is what I have–my hope, way in the back of my head–is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, ‘Why not all the way? Let’s get rid of all these things’.”


Finally, a president who gets it

I'm glad to see you're finally giving Ronald Reagan the credit he deserves for working so we and our children would have better lives. If only people like you hadn't worked against him so much, he might have accomplished more.

I voted for Reagan and Bush four times....did you?

^ Pretty sure that's a total fucking lie

Just ask them

I did, they said they don't remember you. Couldn't pick you out of a police lineup

Great thread BTW

 

[rightwinger]

The President went on to say...

I can’t believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday–and this is what I have–my hope, way in the back of my head–is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, ‘Why not all the way? Let’s get rid of all these things’.”


Finally, a president who gets it

I'm glad to see you're finally giving Ronald Reagan the credit he deserves for working so we and our children would have better lives. If only people like you hadn't worked against him so much, he might have accomplished more.

I voted for Reagan and Bush four times....did you?

^ Pretty sure that's a total fucking lie

Just ask them

I did, they said they don't remember you. Couldn't pick you out of a police lineup

Great thread BTW

I had more hair then and weighed 50 lbs less

 

[Statistikhengst]

Are you calling Reagan a liar?

LOL....

Sure looks like that is what he is doing.

 

[Statistikhengst]

This thread really IS fun!

 

[HenryBHough]

Those words uttered by a powerful president would ring positively. Uttered by Obama they fall flat.

Bumpitty bump, bump, BUMP!

And, for emphasis:

Those words uttered by a powerful president would ring positively. Uttered by Obama they fall flat.

 

[Vigilante]

And he really is a JACKASS!

 

[bendog]

Those words uttered by a powerful president would ring positively. Uttered by Obama they fall flat.

Bumpitty bump, bump, BUMP!

And, for emphasis:

Those words uttered by a powerful president would ring positively. Uttered by Obama they fall flat.

Actually, Reagan got no love from the gop over this. But the threads great for laughs

Hardline conservatives protest Gorbachev’s visit to Washington, and the signing of the treaty, in the strongest possible terms. When Reagan suggests that Gorbachev address a joint session of Congress, Congressional Republicans, led by House member Dick Cheney (R-WY—see 1983), rebel. Cheney says: “Addressing a joint meeting of Congress is a high honor, one of the highest honors we can accord anyone. Given the fact of continuing Soviet aggression in Afghanistan, Soviet repression in Eastern Europe, and Soviet actions in Africa and Central America, it is totally inappropriate to confer this honor upon Gorbachev. He is an adversary, not an ally.” Conservative Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Committee is more blunt in his assessment of the treaty agreement: “Reagan is a weakened president, weakened in spirit as well as in clout, and not in a position to make judgments about Gorbachev at this time.” Conservative pundit William F. Buckley calls the treaty a “suicide pact.” Fellow conservative pundit George Will calls Reagan “wildly wrong” in his dealings with the Soviets. Conservatives gather to bemoan what they call “summit fever,” accusing Reagan of “appeasement” both of communists and of Congressional liberals, and protesting Reagan’s “cutting deals with the evil empire” (see March 8, 1983). They mount a letter-writing campaign, generating some 300,000 letters, and launch a newspaper ad campaign that compares Reagan to former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Senators Jesse Helms (R-NC) and Steven Symms (R-ID) try to undercut the treaty by attempting to add amendments that would make the treaty untenable; Helms will lead a filibuster against the treaty as well.

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Conservative pundits such as George Will and William Safire lambast Reagan, with Will accusing him of “moral disarmament” and Safire mocking Reagan’s rapport with Gorbachev: “He professed to see in Mr. Gorbachev’s eyes an end to the Soviet goal of world domination.” It will not be until after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall (see November 9, 1989 and After) that conservatives will revise their opinion of Reagan, in the process revising much of history in the process. [Scoblic, 2008, pp. 143-145]


George Will