A Weekend of Ronald Reagan Videos and Golf

While catching the Master's over the weekend I also watched some Reagan movies and bio's  along with reading a great book called the "Crusader", which details Reagan's lifelong battle against communism. Essentially a one man communist wrecking crew all the way from the Screen Actors Guild to the Berlin Wall to the Soviet Union and back, if we can only make it through the hiring of the first "Socialist president" elected in America.

And man do we need him or his second coming more than ever, and that was my very reason for reviewing all this material which I've seen and read before. But if you want to spend a weekend learning all about his brave fight against the communists which can be likened to today's Tea Party folks who see Marxism in today's president these three bio's will do the job.

I wanted a better feel for what I think Reagan would do about Muslim extremists and the Obama Far Left Lurch towards Marxism he fought his entire life right here in his beloved country,  twice occupying our oval office to make it even worse than he himself could have ever  imagined 6 years after his death.

Again the book Crusader isn't a "Times best seller" but it's a great insight. Buy it here for a couple bucks.

I also bought Biography's Ronald Reagan: A Legacy Remembered, which was also great although one must tolerate his annoying son Ronald, who doesn't anchor the thing, but obviously offers all his experiences with his beloved father as does the more tolerable and patriotic conservative Michael, the adopted son of Reagan and his first wife. 

At an hour and a half it was just long enough and I'm glad I bought it 'cause I'll check it out again and again, I've seen it a couple times, not to mention living through it all of course lol He also shared a February birthday with my maternal grandfather who loved Reagan and lived til' April 19th, 1995 which itself is an notorious day in our history. (Think OK City Bombing, Ruby Ridge, etc)

This little ten minute thing is essentially the Biography one done in good old liberal PBS fashion but it's worth a look as well. It's part of a Communists in Hollywood thing I also watched in conjunction with this other stuff and it can watched and found at the link below. 

American Experience . The Presidents . Ronald Reagan Video | The Presidents | American Experience | PBS: "Communists in Hollywood (9:43)

..........seen here in a meeting upon his election to the Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild in 1941, serving as an alternate. Following World War II, he resumed service and became 3rd Vice president in 1946. Reagan, an active anti-Communist, ends his first marriage. He meets and marries actress Nancy Davis."

Check those three great easy to digest resources out on the the "great communicator" perhaps our finest president at least in the modern era and be armed against any liberal you'll encounter in our present ideological battle as to why Obama will go down as one of if not America's worst president in her short but glorious history.

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Ohio Lawmakers Object Against Replace Ulysses S. Grant on $50 Bill With Reagan

I wrote about this a couple months ago and it looks like it's back on the front burner, at least it is for some Ohioan's who don't want "their man" Grant removed from the 50 spot in favor of the great communicator. Our last great 2 time president who many think was our best modern day if not all time presidents. He's definitely in the top 5 on anyone's list and in the top 3 if it's to be taken seriously in my opinion.  But..

Thing is, by the time they make up their minds on this deal, Americans may not have to worry about who's face is on the bill, since many of them will never see one ever again in their wallets, at least in the near future  with Obama as president. In all seriousness, not that that wasn't serious, I agree with the ones who say "put Ronnie on something else to honor him" which includes some Republican Ohioans as well. 

Grant was a great president too in his way, and take this away from him and who remembers the man? I feel that way about the elder statesman and founders prior circa 1900, they deserve more accolade than they get, not less. Everyone after that almost has just helped dig our grave we're all sitting in right now.

Ohio Lawmakers Object Against Replace Ulysses S. Grant on $50 Bill With Reagan

ABC News: "If Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., has his way, the nation's 40th president, Ronald Reagan may soon be gracing the $50 bill, but some Ohioans -- even Republicans -- are not having any of it.

A North Carolina congressman is pushing to get Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill.

GOP state Rep. Danny Bubp has requested the state legislator to draft a resolution opposing the legislation by McHenry, which aims to replace President Ulysses S. Grant with Reagan on the $50 bill. continued

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Same healthcare arguments, just decades earlier - Reagan Video

Yes, Reagan was absolutely right and Medicare has led to Socialism as the democrats keep power by giving the people things "back" that they've already payed for and only liberals consider that to be "free".

I guess they would think it's "free" if they're anything like their dear leader who's never had a job nor created one "STILL", nor payed the monstrous taxes that are about to stealthily triple as we pay for "Free Health Care" both coming and going.

We know for a fact that half the people he tried to (and did) stuff into his cabinet with sure didn't pay their taxes either, as even the dem head of " the house ways and means" committee which writes the tax laws, Charlie Bahama Rangel, didn't even pay them, think the "average" liberal does? Or better yet the Treasury Head, Turbo Tax Geithner, no taxes.

And their lear jet segment gets away with it too I would imagine, since the others do. I wouldn't know, I've always paid them like a sucker I guess. I like it outside of prison where most dems eventually end up one way or another.

Same healthcare arguments, just decades earlier

latimes.com: "President Harry S. Truman is considered the grandfather of universal healthcare, having first proposed it in 1945. 'The health of American children, like their education, should be recognized as a definite public responsibility,' he said.

Twenty years later, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare Act into law, he invited Truman, then 81 years old, to be at his side. Then LBJ enrolled Truman as the first beneficiary of the new program that provided healthcare for the 65-and-older set, calling him 'the real daddy of Medicare.'

But Medicare, much like President Obama's healthcare reform legislation, did not become law without a political fight. In fact, the American Medical Assn. mobilized a massive campaign against the idea, working tirelessly to stop the reform in Congress.

And to serve as the public face of its campaign against a government-sponsored health plan, the AMA chose none other than Ronald Reagan, the star of 'General Electric Theater' and former president of the Screen Actors Guild whose views on politics matched its own.

Warning that enacting Medicare would lead to socialism in America, Reagan said that if Americans did not stop Medicare reform, 'one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in America when men were free.'

In an 11-minute recording for the AMA, Reagan invoked the name of Norman Thomas, the Socialist Party presidential candidate, saying:

'Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program. . . . One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. . . .

'Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it. We have an example of this. Under the Truman administration, it was proposed that we have a compulsory health insurance program for all people in the United States, and, of course, the American people unhesitatingly rejected this.'

Reagan's prescription? 'Write to our congressmen and senators,' he said. 'The key issue is this: We do not want socialized medicine . . . demand the continuation of our traditional free-enterprise system.'

Sound familiar?"

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