There Is Nothing New Under The Sun
By Mitch Berg
It’s interesting, listening to this 1961 speech by Ronald Reagan, how long the idea of socialized medicine/”single payer healthcare” has been knocking around. He even notes the old “What would you do – throw senior citizens out in the streets” which, being alive in the 1980’s, I thought started in the 1980’s.
And while pining for the old days is a deadly narcotic, it’s amazing to listen to not only how eloquently Reagan trashes the idea, but with with a level of literate details. They say American’s attention spans are shorter than they used to be – but on this sort of thing?
Anyway – worth a ten minute listen.
August 14th, 2009 at 5:55 am
It’s true, Republicans have been taking money from industry and using it to frighten and anger white people for many years. Boy, that Reagan could sure read from a Teleprompter, couldn’t he?
August 14th, 2009 at 6:00 am
It’s true, Republicans have been taking money from industry and using it to frighten and anger white people for many years.
By claiming “they’ll starve children?”
Er, yeah. Just like that.
Boy, that Reagan could sure read from a Teleprompter, couldn’t he?
I sometimes wonder – if Obama did a speech on radio, would he take his teleprompter with?
August 14th, 2009 at 6:47 am
Mitch wrote:
“And while pining for the old days is a deadly narcotic”
Its turns of phrase like that which I so enjoy in your writing.
August 14th, 2009 at 7:15 am
How many years have Democrats been using racism as a political tool, angryclown?
August 14th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Dunno, Troy, it’s your twisted fantasy world. You tell Angryclown.
August 14th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
“How many years Dems using racism as a political tool?” “You tell angryclown.” Since they always use it as character assignation when they`re losing arguments, then, well, forever.