[Darth Sidious]

Ronald Reagan was the greatest President of the 20th Century. He personified everything that was good and true and honorable about what it meant to be an American... about how great we were, and how great we could still be again. He was a servant and a statesman, not a politician or a partisan. Above all else, he was a Christian.

There will most likely not be another great man of his caliber in high office, in our lifetimes.

[Jeff Head]

He personified everything that was good and true and honorable about what it meant to be an American... about how great we were, and how great we could still be again. He was a servant and a statesman, not a politician or a partisan. Above all else, he was a Christian. <./i>

Well said...and he went about charcterizing all the good of each of those qualities, particularly the last one.

[Rebelbase]

I agree 100%. Ronald Reagan was the first I ever voted for. Having a WWII father and Uncles and having a family that was history minded I was raised proud of my country and those who settled and fought for it.

Vietnam protesters and the counterculture crowd conflicted with what I learned at home. Jimmy Carter's ineptitude and the Iran hostage ordeal seemed to paint a curtain of pessimism over this nation.

Reagan removed that curtain. Reagan took control and was a leader.

The shadow of the Cold war was always at the back of my mind as a kid and young adult. In Miami growing up we had to take a class in high school called Americanism versus Communism. My view of the world was black and white--The west Vera's the Soviets and Warsaw pact, where the sole purpose of each side was to wipe the other out.

Reagan changed that view from Black and White to one of vivid color. His confrontation with communism changed the world we live in today and destroyed the shadow of the cold war forever. I still stop and ponder "who would have ever thought the Berlin wall would topple and the Soviet Union crumble?"...mind boggling and Reagan is the leader who caused it to happen in our lifetimes.

Enough of that. Its great to see you here again. I don't know if you're going to post more--I hope you will. You have friends here.

[snopercod]

Hi Darth, and welcome back. (Yeah, I couldn't stand it over on LP either...)