National Archives releases Reagan's racist call with then-President Nixon, ex-Nixon library director

What is there to defend? It was a comment, in light of today's morality, some will find if racially offensive. I think it's indicative of the times. I mean, it would take another what? 12years for ABC to can Howard for using the same language? I'm positive that you'd like to be reminded of all the super cool things democrats used to say about AAs, right? And no, that isn't whataboutism. It's simply the apple to the apple conversation that demonstrates just how plaintive and puerile your position is here.

 

Lots of liberals are still going to support Biden though. I mean, even after all the "clean" and "articulate" comments from 2008.

 

I mean this isn't anything groundbreaking to me because I never held Reagan in such high esteem because at best he's overrated and at worst he's completely terrible, so releasing this doesn't change my mind.

 

and the op is a huge whataboutism, designed to make the gop/right all appear racist...

 

Yes, from the CNN article.. "In light of the recent racist comments from President Trump...' blah blah blah. Like CNN isn' the manufacturer of that racist they want to frame others with... I do admit that I get amused every time Don Lemon cries on TV. I then wonder what he feels like being the bottom in his relationship with a white guy...

 

I just asked conservatives to acknowledge that Reagan’s comments were racist. But it is true that I never expected conservatives to do just that. This thread was created entirely for my entertainment. I wanted to see conservatives make dumb arguments in defense of their hero. And thank you for delivering on that by the way.

 

But its not racist...uuuuum...calling a black man articulate, implying...uuuuum, what exactly=) Whoopsieeee! Trump says no human being would want to live in a run down city and Democrats claim he was calling black people inhuman OR that the rats he was referring to were the people and not the actual RATS on the news report that morning. Its pure insanity.

 

iow, you 'flamebaited' the forum... interesting, wonder when/if this thread will get deleted

 

Reagan is Dead.....I'm thankful for that

 

It’s not flame baiting if it is a legit question, which it is. I just happen to find entertainment in your mental gymnastics.

 

your statement, highlighted bold, makes it flaimbaiting

 

AND admitted trolling....

 

That's really not helping your case, you know. Omar is clearly anti-semitic. There's a strain of anti-semitism that pops up in leftist politics and should always be condemned. It's like the white nationalism that creeps into conservative politics. It needs to be stomped on and condemned whenever it pops up. The GOP seems incapable of doing that anymore.

 

Reagan is dead.

 

Yah I have a problem calling black people monekys regardless who said it when. Why don’t you?

 

I don't see the elected GOP racist equivalent to Omar, Tlaib, AOC, etc.

 

If we're going to call out Omar for stuff like her Benjamins comment (which we should), you propose we SHOULDN'T call out someone who tells four minority women to go back to the countries they came from? When three of those women were born here? The "send her back" chant was so bad, GOP leaders went to Pence, and Trump had to disown it.

And one is a congresswoman, and the other is the President of the U.S.

 

No different than the Democrats felt about this..........

Only days before he will nominate Barack Obama for re-election, a new report claims that in 2008, former President Bill Clinton said of him: “A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags.”

 

they're resurrecting the dead in an effort to prove conservatives are white supremist racists by proxy

 

Trump said first go back and fix things there, then tell us what to do. His dislike for them isn't due to their race, but because they're stupid America-haters.

 

Is there a recording of him saying that? Not that I'm defending Clinton, I think he's a scumbag. But anyone can say anything without proof. Donald trump is Exhibit A.

 

Ted Kennedy said he did.

 

Oh, I see. They're America-haters. What does that make the person who said this?

Trump made the remark during an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, saying he respected his Russian counterpart.
"But he's a killer," O'Reilly said to Trump.
"There are a lot of killers. You think our country's so innocent?" Trump replied.

And this?

"I like people who weren't captured."

And this?

"“It’s amazing, I can’t even believe it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider,” Trump said in the interview when Howard Stern asked how he handled making sure he wasn’t contracting STDs from the women he was sleeping with.

Does that sound like someone who loves America?

 

Then report me. But my motivation for creating this thread is irrelevant as long as it otherwise complies with the forum rules, which it does.

 

not my style to report, have i done it... yep, just once on principle, not because i disagreed with the poster, it was more of a 'slam' to the mods to make a point...

btw, motivation for creation gives way to admission of trolling in a subsequent post...
i must say, that i admire your honesty, i've done similar in the past & was 'chastised', warned, & penalized for it... of course i laughed it off, as i'm sure you will also...
differences of opinion/beliefs are what make us stronger as a nation...