Of course he couldn’t. He didn’t in 1980. The GOPe hated him and fought him every step of the way.
He paid no attention.
That’s what it will take this next time.
It takes the prez 30 seconds to recite his job description in front of the world and paying attention to that is all it takes and that’s a lot.
The bigger the party, the bigger the swindle.
Reagan took the oath then got to work.
First order of biz get thos hostages OUT - Day one (Affleck left that out - so did Carter- but Argo is still in theaters and still winning much to everyones’ amazement.
THe fluffies at the bureaus and the executive branch fought Mendez as well.
Difference? They ignored it.
What if Dr. Carson gave a care about what Bill Bennett or any of those on the right said? Well, he’d shut up and look like all the rest of the weenies on the reight. THey are the worst obstructors.
Reagan ingnored them. Paid attention to his job.
One problem.... Reagan did not “take the oath”, and then as a first order of business “Get those hostages out”. The deal was done before Reagan even took the oath. The hostages were released 20 minutes after Reagan took the oath. He was good. He wasn’t THAT good.
Did you see or know anything factual about “Argo”? I’m debating seeing it.
“First order of biz get those hostages OUT”
That’s not really something the Reagan administration did, but had done for them, considering they were released on inauguration day. How cpuld it have been first order of biz if by the time there was a Reagan presidency there were no histagrs? Unless you believe in conspitacy theories about people on his side, for instance Bush the Elder, deliberately delaying release until after he was president.
“Afleck left that out”
Maybe because “Argo” was about the rescue of the Americans hiding in the Canadian embassy, not the hostages themselves. Though obviously it was about the hostages, too, tangentially. I don’t think there was any obligation to go into the diplomacy or the ‘80 campaign or otherwise explain how, exactly, the 52 or whatever got out. There were a few things to complain about politically, if you were lokoking fir a fight, with “Argo.” How they portrayed the Shah, the boons on the street news footage, or Carter’s cameo, but that’s nitpicking, really.
“First order of biz get those hostages OUT”
That’s not really something the Reagan administration did, but had done for them, considering they were released on inauguration day. How cpuld it have been first order of biz if by the time there was a Reagan presidency there were no histagrs? Unless you believe in conspitacy theories about people on his side, for instance Bush the Elder, deliberately delaying release until after he was president.
“Afleck left that out”
Maybe because “Argo” was about the rescue of the Americans hiding in the Canadian embassy, not the hostages themselves. Though obviously it was about the hostages, too, tangentially. I don’t think there was any obligation to go into the diplomacy or the ‘80 campaign or otherwise explain how, exactly, the 52 or whatever got out. There were a few things to complain about politically, if you were lokoking fir a fight, with “Argo.” How they portrayed the Shah, the boobs on the street news footage, or Carter’s cameo, but that’s nitpicking, really.