re: #25 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Personally, I think it laughable that the general consensus was Reagan. Could one of them name one real accomplishment of his presidency that puts him in the same league?

Berlin Wall?

Reagan called for it to be torn down. That call surely had something to do with the actual result.

Anybody rate the fall of the Berlin wall as a bad thing? Anybody figure that it came down just by accident and hadn’t anything to do with Reagan?

Of course it can’t have been all Reagan. No one player wins a football game, much less a Cold War. But Reagan was one of the players, and that Mr. Gorbachev Tear Down This Wall speech was one of the key plays.

It’s not enough to put him on Rushmore, but it’s something.

Add to that a swift recovery from a recession, and the repair of the dollar after Carter’s runaway inflation term of office, and you have a president whose off days and miscues and fumbles don’t add up to enough of a negative to offset those 1 big and 2 medium pluses.