Your Weekly Reagan

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Your Weekly Reagan

Excerpt from A Time for Choosing: Address on behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater Rendezvous with Destiny, October 27, 1964:

There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in doing so lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. Well, I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers.

Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, "We don't know how lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped and said, "How lucky you are! I had someplace to escape to." In that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down--up to a man's age-old dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order--or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.

Read the whole thing, better yet listen to it. The names of the enemies of which Reagan spoke and the names of those who would have us give over the planning of our lives to an intrusive government have changed, but his call to action remains relevant to meeting the challenges we face today.

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You Sir, Mr. Edwards, Aren't Fit To Say Ronald Reagan's Name, Much Less Criticize Him

Edwards Criticizes Obama On Reagan

The former North Carolina senator criticized Obama specifically for referring to Ronald Reagan as an agent of change in a newspaper interview. "I would never use Ronald Reagan as an example of change," Edwards said. "You think about what Ronald Reagan did, to America, the American people, to the middle class, to working people. He was openly, openly intolerant of unions and the right to organize."

In an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal, Obama said that Reagan "changed the trajectory of America," and said Americans "want clarity, we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship."

"I could promise you this," Edwards said. "This president will never use Ronald Reagan as an example."

Let's see... Reagan believed in one America, not two. Reagan believed we all needed to work together, not go it alone with everyman for himself. Reagan believed government is an impediment to achieving the promise of America, not the magic genie who can grant all our wishes and cure all our ills. Reagan believed that a strong America that is willing to stand up to evil (yes, evil) in the world could bring freedom to every part of the planet. In short, the antithesis of John Edwards socialistic drivel.

John Edwards is nothing more than a political hack with a big house, small intellect, and a $400 haircut, and thank God in heaven he will never be President of the United States.

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