Breaking news, 1981-style - It's hard to believe it's been 30 years this month since the failed assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. CNN - less than a year on the air as the world's first 24-hour news network - sprang into breaking news mode to report initial details of the attack.
CNN investigation - This Sunday at 8 p.m. ET/PT, CNN presents an investigation into what really happened behind the scenes on that tense day in 1981. In this excerpt, doctors describe how they worked to save Reagan's life in the ER.
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Whoever thinks Obama better than Reagan and that Obama is their God and only savior and that he is the best president ever is pathetic and should be put in a prison in Mexico.
Obama is not god. And you are idiot!
OMG Vicky, reality check. Ronnie the man was a joke just like he tarnished the office he held.
OMG Vicky, reality check. Ronnie the man, was a joke, just like the office he held.
Foreplay for Liberals... sad
Ronald Regan was suffering lead poisoning from his habit of drinking water from every sink he passed in the white house. Marilyn Quail figured that out and spent millions of our tax money pulling the solid lead pipes out of the building.I was shocked when a looney sht him.I seriously thought a veteran would go nuts over ehat he did to us veterans!!!!
I did like most of what President Reagan did, but I think if he came back from the dead, he wouldnt recognize the man Republicans made him out to be. He would probably want to meet that man!
in response to the brain washed servants of the right. Reagan was a great communicater. But the only things reagan acomplished was transfer the tax burden to the middle class. He also started us on the path to oir catastrofic debt problems he also paid iran blood money for the release of our hostages. Plus cut and ran from lebanon after the murder of 253 americans. I have a great idea all you right wing believers should move to texas and suxsead from the union.
Regan was really good at listening to his handlers, remind you of the high IQ guy we just let run things into the ground.
QUOTE: long before Reagan
Im a most unhappy man, I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit.We no longer are a government of free opinion, no longer a government ruled by conviction, and the vote of the majority, but a government ruled by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men
Woodrow Wilson 1919
Quote: long before Reagan,
I'm most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country a great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. We are no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government of conviction, and the vote of majority but a government ruled by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant wealthy men.
Woodrow Wilson 1919 referring to the privatization of the federal reserve
I personally thought for the longest time that Ronnie would go down in history as the tool that destroyed the middle class in this country; then Dubya came to his rescue took the wheel and gunned the bus over the cliff.
As a Canuck observer.
I agree the off the cliff remarks.
Good luck to you all.
Especially those with out.
You will need it.
Reagan did absolutely nothing when the AIDS epidemic began. Nothing. To have any respect for this man is well.. republican.
Politically, getting shot [hit by] this de-energized, riccocheted bullet was the BEST THING that could have happened to Reagan. It brought him sympathy and some opponents cut him a break which added to his lore as a "Teflon" president.
Reagan was more sizzle than substance. Although lauded as some sort of financially astute leader, ther`s no disputing that he tripled the NATIONAL DEBT while in office setting a tradition that evry GOP President has followed since then.
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO hmmm?
If the hostages were release by Iran "HOURS" after Reagan was sworn in, while at the same time, frozen Iranian assets were "un-frozen", doesn`t that suggest that the outgoing DEMOCRATIC administration was negotiating these terms for a while and that the Iranians picked the "timing" of the release to embarass America?