[GoldenState_Rose]

VIDEO of this beautiful speech followed by the Q and A with the Moscow students afterward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lutYGxMWeA

[GoldenState_Rose]

Cold War Flashback *Ping*

[untenured]

These days this kind of rhetoric — freedom, individual dignity, the value of entrepreneurship — sounds like a speech for another galaxy, or another century.

I do miss his vision for how to be a better America.

[NorseViking]

Too bad Bushes and Clinton brought different message.

[Slyfox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lutYGxMWeA

[dfwgator]

Reagan is still a highly respected figure in Russia. Russians respect that he stood up for them during the dark days of Communism, even if the post-Communist reality has been somewhat of a disappointment for Russians.

[aquila48]

Eloquent, positive, full of hope, highly motivating.

It would be interesting to know how much the vision of the students hearing this speech was changed.

Reagan was one in a lifetime.

[ConservaTeen]

What a great speech...

[polymuser]

Thanks!

“A scholar in pursuit of truth...” There’s a nifty idea. Wow.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

About 1,000 local television stations, 8,500 radio stations, and 1,700 daily newspapers, each one an independent, private enterprise, fiercely independent of the government, report on the candidates, grill them in interviews, and bring them together for debates. In the end, the people vote - they decide who will be the next president.

Independent of government, yes - but not independent of each other. We have a single, associated press.