...missing.â David Bonior, then the campaign manager for John Edwards, charged that Obama was âwrong, frightfully so, in using Ronald Reagan as an example of voters reaching for change. The breadth of change Ronald Reagan brought was crippling for millions...
"Government is not the solution to our problem," Ronald Reagan told his fellow Americans in his first inaugural address. "Government is the problem."
For modern American conservatism, Reagan's words may as well have been inscribed on the...
...to me to suggest that people were so bothered by them that, en masse, they decamped from the North to the South, fueling Reagan's victory. And yet it is the truth. One of the most signifcant changes in American political demographics these last forty...
...whoâs going to be cleaning up all the feces BushitCo leaves us. I bring up Reagan and look what happens; the homophobe shows up. âReagan will also be on currency in your lifetime. That will piss many of you off.â yeah, itâll mean more work for me....
Background
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and a spokesman for General Electric (GE). His start in politics occurred during his work for GE; originally a member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and election in 1980.
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