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In response to "Yeah, and Obama and company will claim all praise and glory " by Stephen

They'd be in office if it happened.

Posted by the liioulu with moe and less (aka liioulu) Jun 3 '09, 16:24

After all that's how the Republicans claim responsibility for Reagan being responsible for the fall on the Iron Curtain.

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There's a bit of a difference. The economy, in large part, will go up or down regardless of who is in office. - Stephen Jun 3, 16:28 23
- Not really. It was going to fall no matter who was in office. - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 16:33 22
  - The lengths that people go to to deny Reagan credit where it's due is amusing... -- nm - Stephen Jun 3, 16:38 21
    - More like the lengths people go to to give credit where none is due. - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 16:43 15
      - Wow, you could not be more wrong if you said Aliens from Mars were responsible for it. Oh well. Think what you want. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 16:46 14
        
        Then what is your counter argument? Since you provided none. - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 16:50 13
        
        We armed Afghan's and made that war so expensive in human loss and financial loss it crippled any chances to further expand. - Redmond Jun 3, 16:54 8
        
        Thus forcing them to downsize to try and get their economy stable again. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 16:55 7
        
        The peope in those countries get some credit, yes, but without Reagan's vision and leadership they'd still be living under communist rule today. -- nm - Stephen Jun 3, 17:00 6
        
        Excuse me? He wasn't the leader of those countries or their revolutions. -- nm - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 17:02 2
        
        Without the US those people would have been SLAUGHTERED!!! DEAD DEAD DEAD! -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 17:03 1
        
        And that's a rational argument how? - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 17:07
        
        I am sure Carter's boycott of the Olympics made it all happen. That was a gutsy move there. Give credit where credit is due. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 17:01 2
        
        I'm not giving Carter credit either. I think we had FA to do with it. -- nm - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 17:03 1
        
        I just like cracking on Carter even if I have to reach to do it. It's fun. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 17:03
        
        And what's your argument for him not having anything to do with it? - Stephen Jun 3, 16:52 3
        
        Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, the basic ineptitude of the USSR in many of its sattlelites. - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 16:58 2
        
        The collapse of the iron curtain didn't happen in a vacuum you know. - Stephen Jun 3, 17:12
        
        So much had to happen before they even got to that point. You are talking about checkmate, but how did it get there? -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 16:59
    - JFK had nothing to do with us going to the moon. We would have went there anyway. FDR had nothing to do with winning WW2, we would have won anyway. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 16:40 4
      - Maybe he didn't. In that case that was a US program. And we were spurred on as much by the USSR's space program as anything else. - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 16:54 3
        
        Sigh. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 16:58 2
        
        Hey, you brought it up. - the liioulu with moe and less Jun 3, 17:00 1
        
        Sigh. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 17:02

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