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Old 05-16-2013, 10:36 AM
 
Location: The Island of Misfit Toys
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Because it happened on Ronald Reagan's watch, even after he had been warned to move the base.



In 1983 debacle, Reagan escaped the blame game - phillyburbs.com: Entertainment

220 marines died. Republicans said nothing. No outrage aimed at Reagan. No accusations of "scandal." No calls for impeachment. As a matter of fact, the name "Reagan" is synonymous with "great President" to Republicans.

Why the double standard?

My own opinion is, until conservative denounce Reagan as a horrible failure as a president, I am not entertaining any criticism of President Obama on Benghazi and nobody else should.
"A former defense secretary for Ronald Reagan says he implored the president to put Marines serving in Beirut in a safer position before terrorists attacked them in 1983, killing 241 servicemen. "I was not persuasive enough to persuade the president that the Marines were there on an impossible mission," Caspar Weinberger says in an oral history project capturing the views of former Reagan administration officials."
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:37 AM
 
Location: South East
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I will repeat what I just posted on another thread.....lefties need to stay FOCUSED and CURRENT. The CURRENT President is in scandal up to his eyeballs. Any mention of past President's just makes one look extremely idiotic.
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:40 AM
 
Location: The Island of Misfit Toys
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I will repeat what I just posted on another thread.....lefties need to stay FOCUSED and CURRENT. The CURRENT President is in scandal up to his eyeballs. Any mention of past President's just makes one look extremely idiotic.
Yea, I know..."Eyes front. Nothing to see here...Never mind that huge smoking crater back there... blah, blah, blah..."

Watching a 'scandal' evaporate before our very eyes - Democratic Underground

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Old 05-16-2013, 10:41 AM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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I will repeat what I just posted on another thread.....lefties need to stay FOCUSED and CURRENT. The CURRENT President is in scandal up to his eyeballs. Any mention of past President's just makes one look extremely idiotic.
Actually there is nothing wrong with studying history and understanding what has happened in the past to better understand what is happening in the present and could happen in the future.

As for this issue, the difference between what happened on Reagan's watch and what happened on Obama's watch is the internet. During Reagan, one couldn't just take to the internet and spread random articles that may or may not be true. Information didn't spread as fast then which meant more accurate information would come out when it came up. Nowadays, information comes out so fast before it is even able to be checked to see if it is true and accurate information.
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:47 AM
 
Location: The Island of Misfit Toys
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I will repeat what I just posted on another thread.....lefties need to stay FOCUSED and CURRENT. The CURRENT President is in scandal up to his eyeballs. Any mention of past President's just makes one look extremely idiotic.
And besides..No one is asking anyone to not stay current...It is relevant to point out the hypocrisy of conservatives when it concerns the legitimacy of the current accusations being leveled at the current administration...This is further evidence it is a manufactured scandal.
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:49 AM
 
Location: Jacurutu
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I will repeat what I just posted on another thread.....lefties need to stay FOCUSED and CURRENT. The CURRENT President is in scandal up to his eyeballs. Any mention of past President's just makes one look extremely idiotic.
Got it, saying that Reagan's best day was the day he left the Executive Office is "hateful", anything about President Obama (including putting his feet up on the desk, did you miss that thread?) is fair game:

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Jan 20th, 1988. The day he left office.

That was the best of Reagan right there (his back as he was finally leaving).
Why are you so hateful?
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:50 AM
 
Location: None of your business
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I will repeat what I just posted on another thread.....lefties need to stay FOCUSED and CURRENT. The CURRENT President is in scandal up to his eyeballs. Any mention of past President's just makes one look extremely idiotic.
They do look like idiots when they pull this card. They just can't seem to stay up with the current time.
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:51 AM
 
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I'd say investiagte the bombings and then if possible retaliate.That's what terrorist understand.We already know what liberals say already ';they b;lamed it on Bush as usual.Never let a crisis go to waste'so why should conservtive do any different than the standard liberal created?
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:51 AM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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I will repeat what I just posted on another thread.....lefties need to stay FOCUSED and CURRENT. The CURRENT President is in scandal up to his eyeballs. Any mention of past President's just makes one look extremely idiotic.
Many would say one's failure to acknowledge history makes one look extremely idiotic and the failure to be consistent in applying the same standard(s) of judgement over time makes one appear extremely hypocritical.
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:53 AM
 
Location: South East
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They do look like idiots when they pull this card. They just can't seem to stay up with the current time.
And they know it! That is why they are waxing poetic about being historians on this thread.

They don't WANT to stay current because the scandals increase every moment involving their Messiah.
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