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I can never remember whether Reagan single handedly won the Cold War on horseback with a six shooter or if he was functionally incapacitated and thus not respon
by CalChris 5y ago
I can never remember whether Reagan single handedly won the Cold War on horseback with a six shooter or if he was functionally incapacitated and thus not responsible for anything.
- hindsightbias 5y agoThis SNL skit provides one view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wfPlgKFh8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wfPlgKFh8 Even my mother, a product of an FDR world, who threw shoes at Reagan on TV could not stop laughing about how over the top it was. I credit Nancy. She saw the ideologues he put in during the first term where driving for a cliff and brought Baker, Deaver and Schultz in to right the ship. It helped to have someone like Tip O’Neil in the House who thought impeaching over Iran Contra would be bad for the country. Reagan, like W Bush wasn’t incompetent, he was just incurious and easily led the farther he went up. Look at Reagan’s 1964 speeches and W’s Governor debates and it’s like they both fell of a skateboard and cracked their heads open once they ran for President.
- mixmastamyk 5y agoFantastic, miss Phil Hartman.
- hondo77 5y agoMy favorite SNL sketch evah!
- rsj_hn 5y agoLove this skit! The Hartman era was a good one -- also the jiffy pop airbag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQm7EEnN-0E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQm7EEnN-0E
- mixmastamyk 5y agoA decade is a long time in your seventies.