@rosborne979,
Wait a minute . . . i'm willing to say that that old fart was not a good president. This is nothing but cult of personality. Should we do the same thing for Jimmy Carter? Wait for the conservatives to howl over that one, despite the fact that Carter is the only President who ever got Arabs and Israelis to sit down and hammer out an agreement which brought and maintained peace.
Reagan was a f*cking idiot, who was likable and reminded social security voters of their own generation--otherwise, he was an empty suit who was a front man for the likes of Cheney, Rumsfeld and other notorious scumbags. He engaged in union-busting and set up elaborate mechanisms to bypass Congress to fund the Contras, which included selling spare parts to Iran for their American military hardware. So those jackasses were supporting both sides in the Iran-Iraq War. Anyone willing to claim that Reagan cannot reasonably have known and could not reasonably have been able to do anything about it, despite the fact that his Vice President was a former Director of Central Intelligence, will have admitted by default that Ronnie was not competent for his office.