I am not going to exploit
for political purposes
my opponent's youth
and inexperience.
Posted on 09/25/2004 7:50:17 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
1984 Debate
LOL, mickey mouse system of the USSR. Reagan was so great.
It's poetry in motion. Geez, I wish I could have voted for him.
Interesting about that: Reagan won a landslide re-election after opening his first debate against a challenger by having to apologize.
Reagan completely on the defensive since the starting bell.
Hopefully this will echo in the coming bush/kerry debates. kerry will attack Bush hard on Iraq..
That's my thought.
Mondale talks about how we're not safer because 'there are 2000 more nuclear weapons pointed at us now than in 1980, and Reagan has done nothing on arms reduction with the Soviets' and that only a strategy of accords and agreements will remedy this.
We all know how that turned out, don't we?
How could Kerry use a likewise defensive response of Mondale's when talking about Al-Qaeda? There's no-one to negotiate with!
Reagan just listed off everything Mondale opposed concerning the military.
Hah, called the F14 a waste of money. What a tool.
Mondale retorts by calling the F-14 a 'waste of money' that wasn't 'flying the way it was supposed to'. Hah! The F-14 was probably the finest plane the military ever had.
Wow. I was 6 or 7 years old when this aired. This is the first time I've ever seen this debate.
Mondale sounds just like Kerry! And Reagan and G.W. sound so much alike. Twenty years later and some things never change.
Though Mondale does appear a little more emotional stable than Kerry does today.
Mondale could've hit Reagan hard on the Lebanon stuff, but didn't do much with it. Odd.
This is so interesting. Mondale sounds just like Kerry. "I am strong on defense!" And Reagan isn't doing it "right".
Now talking about how Reagan "emboldened" terrorists.
My word, the Demos always ARE on the wrong side of history.
I was 18 months
Anybody else hear flipper's voice coming out of Mondales mouth?
See my #17!
I was 10, and vaguely remember that the debates happen, but clearly can't remember anything that they really said now.
Look at how young Mort Kondrake is!
Isn't videotape wonderful. Mondale citicizing our liberation of Central America as an evil use of our strength.
Nicaragua has been a functioning democracy for what--10-12 years? If Mondale had been elected it would be another Cuba today.
He's since gone on a weight-training program, hasn't he?
Bush has to emulate this for Kerry!
Bush should really study these. Perhaps he did, the 2000 ones played out similar to these.
Hopefully 2004's will as well.
I agree & think it would be intresting to see this debate & the one on the 30th back to back. Could make for a great campaign commercial for President Bush.
He looks so different! (Mort)
It's amazing, the press is sounding just as hostile talking to Reagan as they do to Bush.
Our troops in Lebanon there as a part of a "multinational peacekeeping force."
So much for "peacekeeping" with terrorists.
LOL!!! The youth and inexperienced line!
Just got "the line" from Reagan
The lebanon stuff is really Regean's low point. He didn't really have terrorism on the radar then, and it's hard to blame him.
'Youth and Inexperience' laugh-line.
Unfortunately, because of very young age, I never got interested in politics until well after he left the public eye, so I never saw vintage Reagan. These old videos show me just how dedicated this man was to his principles and his country. Reagan was a patriot, and somewhere, he is still similing on the land in which he believed so much.
My only regret is that I never got to see him in action. He was a true leader and he never made things boring. I bet he was the kind of person you could have sat down with and had one hell of a fun and entertaining conversation with. You are very lucky to have lived 8 years under his leadership (I only lived about about 3).
Mondale needs to do something about those bags under his eyes.
Mondale talking about Lebanon. His words could have been said by Lurch about Iraq. Some things never change...
"It's amazing, the press is sounding just as hostile talking to Reagan as they do to Bush"
It's been going on since Nixon. They felt the same way about Eisenhower ("a do-nothing, golf-playing dunce")
but would never have had the bad form to address the general so disrespectfully. Life was different in the fifties.
Back then I don't think anyone was sure how to deal with them. But the fact that the debate does deal with terrorism & what Mondale's voting record was like I think it could really put flipper in perspective.
At least it could show that he is like Mondale was except in the respect that Mondale at least had the brass to stand by his loony positions.
It seems like about a year ago, when the Gipper was still alive, Kerry was boasting about how he stood up to Reagan in Central America. Does anyone recall the precise Kerry quote? Kerry dropped that strategy when he realized it was another loser. It seems like he would get tired of always being wrong.
Reagan's vision seems so clear now. He really was ahead of his time.
Yeah he was & I believe President Bush will prove to be the same in history's playbook.
Mondale referencing Strobe Talbott to argue with Reagan about what Reagan did!! Like Tom Brokaw telling Prime Minister Allawi what is happening in Iraq!
Mondale uttered the mantra "arms control agreement..." as a measure of presidential success. Looks antiquated now, just twenty years later. History has really moved fast since this debate.
I turned 18 on Nov. 6, 1984, the day Ronnie Reagan won (again) in a landslide. Of course I voted for him. I had posters of Reagan on my bedroom walls like some girls had posters of rock idles.
Did Modale just referance the Contras ?
Mondale talking about the White House handling of Central American conflicts as compromising our diplomacy throughout the world.
He's spent a lot of his time referencing Central America.
Watching this debate I've come to the conclusion the pundits are wrong to debate whether debates should continue. These debates stand as historical record. They evidence the two party ideologies and history bares out whom was right.
OMG!! Mondale was called a flip flopper?
IMO, the press was worse to Reagan.
So many conservatives have forgotten (or are too young to remember) how Reagan was constantly sneered at, treated like dirt, blamed for EVERYTHING (homelessness, poverty, racism, "creating a climate of" hate, fear, evil, etc), and lied about incessantly. And there was no "new media" then. He didn't worry about it.
Unfortunately, illegal immigration is worse now than it was then.
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