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(2) Reagan had Altzheimer's
prior to being elected and it progressed during his "reign"...feel free to look that up.
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If that's true I really wish we had another president with Alzheimers.
My, my, my - how expedient. I thought this article referred to some inconvenient truths about Obama - not Altzheimers, or Reagan.
But I will not falter from the opportunity of comparison. Obama's quotations are filled with lies and broken promises. Reagan's quotations were not only intelligent and insightful, but PROPHETIC as well.
OBAMA - (As we now know, the outcomes of these remarks are so contradictory, they have morphed into ludicrousness.)
"If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what."
My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of OPENNESS in government."
"We agree on reforms that will finally REDUCE the costs of health care. Families will SAVE on their premiums..."
I dont want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be the president of the United States of America.
Weve got SHOVEL-READY projects all across the country that governors and mayors are pleading to fund. And the minute we can get those investments to the state level, jobs are going to be created."
I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and CUT THE COST of a typical family's premium by up to $2,500 a year.
We reject the use of national security letters to SPY ON CITIZENS who are not suspected of a crime.
For people with insurance, the only impact of the health-care law is that their insurance is stronger, better, and more secure than it was before. Full stop. Thats it. They DON'T HAVE TO WORRY about anything else.
We will close the detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, the location of so many of the worst constitutional abuses in recent years.
We reject sweeping claims of 'INHERENT" PRESIDENTIAL POWER
Will eliminate all income taxation of seniors making less than $50,000 per year. This will eliminate taxes for 7 million seniors saving them an average of $1,400 a year and will also mean that 27 million seniors will not need to file an income tax return at all.
We support constitutional protections and judicial oversight on any surveillance program involving Americans.
Will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public and opportunity to review and comment on the White House Website FOR FIVE DAYS."
Weve got to spend some money now to pull us out of this recession. But as soon as were out of this recession, weve got to get serious about starting to LIVE WITHIN OUR MEANS INSTEAD OF LEAVING DEBT FOR OUR CHILDREN AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN AND OUR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN."
Im pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. This will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges weve long neglected. BUT I REFUSE TO LEAVE OUR CHILDREN WITH A DEBT THAT THEY CANNOT REPAY and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for GETTING OUR SPENDING UNDER CONTROL."
I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will execute the office of president of the United States faithfully, and will to the best of my ability, PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES."
REAGAN: (It's almost as if he KNEW, and was warning us, of the struggles we would endure from a future Obama Presidency and WHY. - These are not the quotes of a man who is deficient in any way.)
"I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is LIMITED. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, LIBERTY CONTRACTS."
"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."
"The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever GOD intends he should become."
"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
"One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of LAW-ABIDING citizens should be one of the government's primary concerns."
"We must reject the idea that every time a laws broken, society is guilty rather than the LAWBREAKER. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is ACCOUNTABLE for his actions."
"Government's first duty is to PROTECT the people, NOT run their lives."
"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth."
"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who READS Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who UNDERSTANDS Marx and Lenin."
"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
"Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was TOO STRONG."
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'M HERE TO HELP.'"
"We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we SPEND too much."
"A taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take a civil-service exam."
"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it."