I suppose that this will depress you, given our current… what I will be charitable and call ‘leadership.’ But it’s still worth your attention. Ladies and gentlemen, Ronald Reagan’s Brandenburg Gate speech, June 12, 1987.
Always remember: we have, indeed, had it worse.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
This particular moment was apparently the one, because the Left’s been trying to push back on it ever since.
On this day in 1987: 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!' http://t.co/rIRq0VkdW5
— Brian Faughnan (@BrianFaughnan) June 12, 2013
Good luck with that, guys.
It is my first instinct to treat this report of Ronald Reagan Jr’s… commentary… by simply letting it pass by without a response. For those not wishing to click through, the boy (use of term deliberate) is indulging elderly liberal fetishists everywhere by making the claim that his father was suffering from Alzheimer’s as far back as the 1984 debates*, as well as ‘details’ regarding a supposed operation in 1989 that had even the US News & World Report doing some fancy footwork in order to avoid having to declare it a lie. It’s the Left; it’s pornography; it’s Left-porn. Outside of that particular niche market, its utility is… low.
So why even bother addressing it? Simple: because Ron Reagan Jr picked his dates carefully. 1984 and 1986 are before 1987, which the boy made a point of explicitly referencing as being the year that his father should have resigned. 1987 is the year that the boy wants people to decide was a year where his father’s illness was clearly and obviously advanced. 1987 is the year where the boy wants his father to be dead inside.
The only problem is, 1987 is the year of the Brandenburg Speech. You know: ‘tear down this wall.’
AoSHQ (and Sarah Palin) reminds me of this:
Not the event itself: but the details behind it. It’s a little jarring to realize that there are people who can vote (and soon, drink legally) in this country who don’t have personal memories of the Berlin Wall; or what it represented. I was seventeen when this speech took place; and like the AoSHQ writer I considered Ronnie Raygun to be a fool. Because, you know, maybe the Commies weren’t as powerful as we thought in 1980, but they weren’t going anywhere. Right?
Yeah, seventeen and stupid. Continue reading #rsrh Tear down this wall.
