Is Republican Conservative Ann Coulter joking when she says Bobby Jindal was great in "Slumdog Millionaire"?
Plain speaking......rough huh? She says what she means and means what she says and stands behind it all.
Why is Reagan so idealized, often compared to Lincoln?
Like others have said, there are no other Republican President in recent memory who had a positive impact on the country by helping the Soviet Union crumble itself ultimately making the US as the only Super Power left on the planet. Plus he established the ideology of the Republican party as it stands today with the concept of supply-side or trickle-down economics (derided by the other side) and the whole concept of small government (never mind that no one follows it). Ranking presidents is a matter of the era in which one lives. Based on contemporary wisdom, people look back and decide how a president influenced the country and whether they were positive. In the process, a lot of negatives are also brushed aside if they were not of direct long-term consequences. For example, Bill Clinton was a scandal in 1996 and Americans were ashamed that he was in the White house but the overall state of the economy and the jobs situation (not entirely of his making) makes him a well loved and successful president today especially after the disastrous period in the 2000s. Similarly even Lincoln was despised during his time, but the legacy he left for us makes him a great president. So, too for Reagan, despite all his corruption, his supply side economics, and his lack of attention to detail sometimes (there were embarrassing photos of him sleeping on the stage during events), he is credited with bringing the Soviet Union down. Although it was Gorbachev who did most of the heavy lifting, he did help with his Star Wars plan etc (it is not clear whether it was intended as a strategy to bring them down or whether as a Hollywood hero, he really believed in it). In general, a President who brought about a major change, be it Lincoln, Reagan, Johnson (Medicare, Civil Rights) will be remembered if that change was for the good of the people. In that vein, we never know if Obama will be praised or vilified for ACA. We will need to wait another 30-40 years for that verdict.
Who would be in the “All time top 10 Liberal Heroes” list? Any suggestions?
@Bella Quixote - It is because of Liberals like you that I had put Che as #1 on this list. What ever any other Liberal would want to claim they can't deny that THERE ARE LIBERALS THAT IDOLIZE CHE GUEVARA AND SCUM LIKE HIM! To them a man who treats the poor on alittle sickness has all the right in the world to murder anyone he feels like murdering. Liberals can try to act inocent but you can't deny the good percentage of you who love murders like this one and make a Martyr of him. He treated a few poor people but destroyed an island nation with murder and mismanagement. But that is OK, we can just blame the US for his F'ups and say we forced him to kill many Cubans, we put the gun in his hand and pulled the trigger for him. What do I know, I mean those thousands of Cuban immigrants I see and speak to on many occassions are all liars right? Che was a hero and these liars left the island paradise he created to come to this filthy Empire called the USA! They are traitors to CUBA and should