McCain: Reagan could time travel

[underpants]

57 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpncM9yqkLg

Last night on Fox News, McCain and Sean Hannity joined in with the right wing’s Reagan-era hysteria, with Hannity arguing that Obama should offer “some moral support the way that Ronald Reagan offered moral support” to anti-communists. But in this instance, McCain got carried away, crediting Reagan for something that happened well before he became president:

McCAIN: You and I are both students of history and we’ve seen this movie before. When Ronald Reagan stood up for the workers in Gdansk in Poland, when he stood up for the people of Czechoslovakia, in Prague Spring, and America did. And some good Democrats did, too.

Perhaps McCain needs a new history lesson. The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia when Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek allowed greater speech and assembly freedoms when he came to power… in January 1968. Ronald Reagan had just completed his first year as California’s governor at that time. Soviet and other Warsaw Pact troops invaded eight months later to end the reform movement.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/19/mccain-reagan-prague-spring/

[ejpoeta]

1. well, that makes sense then. i think mccain is losing it.

[KharmaTrain]

2. When You Revise History Then...

Raygun won the Vietnam War as well as Korea and the Spanish-American War (he told Teddy Roosevelt not to be a wuss and take San Juan Hill)...

Raygun cured cancer, herpes and everything except AIDS (right wingers couldn't accept it any other way)

Raygun told us to land a man on the moon before 1980...and he made sure we did it

Raygun invented the light bulb, the airplane, the radio, the teevee and ingredient 7x in Coke...

Hell...talk to any rushpublican and Raygun did it all...even if he really didn't do it. Reality has never had a chance with the GOOPers.

[omega minimo]

41. Reagan Twittered.

[madrchsod]

3. if i remember correctly reagan ordered...

the gassing of university students with helicopters. the first aerial gassing of american citizens. while the "prague spring" was in bloom here in the states it was the repression of the student movement.


i have a lot of issues with obama but thank the american people for not voting for johnnie boy

[underpants]

5. Yes

but it was at least the second

Battle of Blair Mountain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
On orders from the famous General Billy Mitchell, Army bombers from Maryland were also used to disperse the miners, a rare example of Air Power being used by the federal government against US citizens. A combination of gas and explosive bombs left over from the fighting in World War I were dropped in several locations near the towns of Jeffery, Sharples and Blair. At least one did not explode and was recovered by the miners; it was used months later to great effect during treason and murder trials following the battle.

[Canuckistanian]

43. True, Reagan had more in common with dictators than with freedom fighters

Czechoslavakia lost that battle, if I remember right.

Reagan tried to recreate it in California.

[RandomThoughts]

4. No Ronald Reagan could not time travel.

And if you believe in time travel(I do not) you have to give credibility to my comment that if it was possible he was not doing it. Since I think I got some non-linear time cred.(even though it does not exist)

[Wizard777]

10. I just spoke with H. G. Wells and he agrees with you.

He said Ronnie tried but couldn't crack the code. E=MC2 is just the first part. Not the whole of the code.

[RandomThoughts]

12. Hows he doing? n/t

[omega minimo]

18. He's just opened a new H.G.Wells Friday's in Topeka

The curly fries are out of this world!! :toast:

[RandomThoughts]

21. Haha, pretty good.

I'll have to stop in for a beer and catch up on future times with him. Discuss those great memories of tomorrow and all those fun times had.

[omega minimo]

23. He's pretty pissed

that he didn't foresee animatronic TV personalities

[RandomThoughts]

25. Yea they were gone by the time he was in New York.

Although Shep has shown some passion some times. Although I rarely watch fox, there are some times he shows up.

[omega minimo]

27. I've gotten to see him act human (somehow, don't watch the show) but his face freaked me out

when I first saw him all plasticky lookin on the TeeVee. And that VOICE.

[Wizard777]

22. Originally Curly Fries were not to be invented until 2011.

But some things you just have to have RIGHT NOW! :toast:

[omega minimo]

24. Due to a planned movie launch

the Moe Strips and Larry Wings will be available soon. (Served with Nyuk Nyuk sauce). )Stay tuned.

[Wizard777]

28. Oh a wiseguy huh. Well if your gonna give it all away.

Don't forget about the Shemp boat with cocktail sauce and fries.

[omega minimo]

29. LOL

LOL :rofl: :rofl:


Toupe!! I mean Touche!!

[Wizard777]

26. Mr. Wells is well. He couldn't be better. In fact he's got a damned bad case of the well's

[AngryOldDem]

6. What a joke.

Especially in light of how Saint Ronnie saw war protesters in 1968. Berkeley, anyone?

Why, tell me, why does that man have such a mythic hold on this nation? I will never understand it.

[underpants]

7. Trying to take up the presumed finite amount of oxygen previously reserved for FDR

He is their FDR...and JFK

[izquierdista]

16. Americans want to be bottle fed

And he was the nice, old man with the bottle.

[lefthandedlefty]

8. He said Raygun stood up for the workers of other countries

Does anyone know of any instance where Raygun or any repug ever stood up for the workers in this country.I do remember Reagan saying we were lazy over paid and wanted to retire too young and that our cars were no good.

[EFerrari]

35. Are you kidding? Raygun sold out his union to HUAC,

That's how ardent a labor activist he was.

[lefthandedlefty]

38. Must have misunderstood me

I was saying Reagan hated labor just as all republicans

[EFerrari]

39. Yep. He's no one that McBomb should be pulling out for labor cred.

John McCain is losing it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. He couldn't go back as far as McCain's birth date

Carbon dating was the way to find his age.

[spanone]

11. lies obscure truth

[peekaloo]

13. "we’ve seen this movie before"

rather fitting, isn't it?

St. Ronnie often confused reel life, too.

[get the red out]

14. These people think Reagan is God

It is disgusting! They really treat him like some kind of God. If the Republicans were to get long term control of this country, their right-wing religion would eventually replace Christ with Reagan.

[JustAnotherGen]

15. The histgory lesson wouldn't help

He's getting senile! ;-) If not already there. :rofl:

You know - 1968 was a hell of year! I wasn't born yet, but that was a part of a basic 300 level course I took towards my Poli Sci degree about 15 years ago. See - I'm 36 - I'm not senile . . . yet! I wasn't alive then, but this is a basic piece of the puzzle called The Cold War.

[Richard Steele]

17. McCain was a pretty dim bulb to start with, and SENILITY hasn't helped.

All jokes aside, I honestly think he has about 2 days a week
when he doesn't know where he is....and probably one or two
days per month when he doesn't know -WHO- he is.

[underpants]

30. I wonder what his grades at the USNA were in history

"Well... last night there was this blonde in Baltimore....

[omega minimo]

19. Sure he could. He traveled here from 1981 and destroyed our economy

:evilfrown: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=5864151

[tanyev]

20. John and Meghan need some history lessons.

Since she apparently doesn't know about anything that happened before she was born.

[onethatcares]

31. I remember when st ronnie stood up for

the American Flight controllers. What a guy.

[omega minimo]

33. Ya seen one flight controller, ya seen em all

:sarcasm:

[mysuzuki2]

36. I never understood why it was alright for workers in Poland

to strike but not workers in the US.

[Bucky]

32. Maybe McCain was referring to how the Prague Spring was inspired by "Bedtime for Bonzo"

[Sheepshank]

34. raise your hands if you're surprised at Reps making up noble stories.

This just goes to show the Reps are not working with facts......it's pure assumptive reasoning with their constituents assuming integrity, and hanging on their every unverified word. In other words they're making it up and the rank and file are buying it wholesale.

[lame54]

37. Did he go on to tell how he gave the names of The Mighty Ducks when he was tortured?

[Richard Steele]

40. BWAHAHAHA!!!!! I'm nominating that for a DUzy. nm

[Odin2005]

42. Going senile, he is!

:rofl: