Vintage Reagan Bemoans 'Socialized Medicine' in YouTube Sensation

[Warph]

I just listened to the YouTube recording FoxNews posted along with the article.  It further convinces me that Ronald Regan was the last great Republican of our lifetime.  It amuses me to see people bash President Reagan..... especially the ones who know very little about what Reagan did and what he stood for.  Soooooo.... let me remind those poor uninformed folks.  He won by a landslide twice.  He restored this nation.  He cleaned up after Carter which was a task all by itself.  He was a REAL president.  We had money in our pockets.  Mostly, times were grand.  So losers, remember... BY LANDSLIDES, twice.  Obama will NEVER see that.  Also, let me add if the democrats use the controversial tactic known as reconciliation, you can bet it will be a LANDSLIDE victory for the Repub's come Nov. 2012.  .....Warph


Updated February 24, 2010
Vintage Reagan Bemoans 'Socialized Medicine' in YouTube Sensation
FOXNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/24/vintage-reagan-bemoans-socialized-medicine-youtube-sensation/#

On the eve of the Obama administration's most aggressive push yet to pass a national health care plan, a 50-year-old audio recording of Ronald Reagan speaking out against "socialized medicine" has become a huge YouTube sensation.

Nearly 1 million viewers have watched the video, in which the late president, speaking before he became California governor, warns that government intervention in the health care system creates a slippery slope.

"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project," he said in the recording. But he said most people in America oppose "socialized medicine" when given the choice.

"From here, it's a short step to all the rest of socialism," Reagan said.

The video first made its way around the Internet last summer. While conservative sites hailed it, others ridiculed the recording.

Media Matters dismissed the clip, writing that "Reagan was speaking out against an early version of Medicare, which has become very popular since it was enacted," and that the late president's "dire predictions" never came true.

Health care reform critics are on edge as President Obama convenes a bipartisan health care reform summit Thursday. The president says he wants to hear Republican ideas, but he has already introduced a blueprint for a bill (The same damn bill that Reid and his liberal cronies in the Senate came up with a few months ago.  Very little has changed....Warph) and Democratic lawmakers are threatening to pass the bill using a controversial tactic known as reconciliation, which would allow the Senate to approve parts of the package with just 51 votes if it gets House approval.

Click here to see the Reagan video/audio on YouTube:  

[frawin]

Warph, I agree with you 110% , Ronald Reagan was definitely the best President in my lifetime. And no question Obama is the worst. As bad as Jimmy Carter was I never thought I would live to see one worse.
Frank

[Warph]

Amen, Frank... AMEN!