Reagan’s famous election-eve speech

21 June 2020, 02:25 PM

jon-nyc

quote:
Next Tuesday is election day. Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls; you'll stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision, it might be well if you would ask yourself, are you better off than you were 4 years ago? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was 4 years ago? Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was 4 years ago? Is America as respected throughout the world as it was? Do you feel that our security is as safe, that we're as strong as we were 4 years ago? And if you answer all of those questions yes, why then, I think your choice is very obvious as to who you'll vote for. If you don't agree, if you don't think that this course that we've been on for the last 4 years is what you would like to see us follow for the next 4, then I could suggest another choice that you have.

21 June 2020, 02:27 PM

jon-nyc

Maybe Uncle Joe has one good plagiarism left in him...

21 June 2020, 02:49 PM

CHAS

quote:
Originally posted by jon-nyc:
Maybe Uncle Joe has one good plagiarism left in him...

Hoping he does.

21 June 2020, 03:15 PM

pianojuggler

Except that for some 30 or 40% of the population only believe President Gaslight. Even if they went from nice houses and three squares a day to all sleeping in the gutters and getting their only food from dumpsters, if Dear Leader tells them they are better off than they were four years ago, they will cheer in agreement that they are.

I never have and probably never will understand the Svengali-like mind control this putz wields.

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21 June 2020, 05:02 PM

jon-nyc

Seriously I hope the Biden people turn this into a commercial.

Just a clip of the speech. With Biden coming on afterward and saying (figuratively) "Well?"

21 June 2020, 05:13 PM

wtg

Good idea. You should send it to his campaign.

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21 June 2020, 07:17 PM

Piano*Dad

quote:
Originally posted by jon-nyc:
Maybe Uncle Joe has one good plagiarism left in him...

Joe's team will turf that one to the Lincoln Project ... just sayin'

22 June 2020, 10:18 AM

Daniel

And yet, eight years later, the average American was worse off than he or she had been before his election.

But he knew how to give a speech.

22 June 2020, 10:41 PM

jon-nyc

It’s quite remarkable that the quote works now verbatim.

Of course the issue of ‘going to the stores’ was inflation, not Covid, but still it works verbatim. Obviously things could change in 4 months.

Maybe there’s an ‘American Carnage’ equivalent.... “Look around - do you see more or less American Carnage than you did 4 years ago...”