Would you be offended ...

[AuH2O]

Wakie, I'm sorry that you had to be disproven like that, I know you didn't make this story up yourself.

Just recite the basic facts and maybe you'll eventually get it:

- the South was Reagan's weakest region.

- Reagan had just been nominated and, when planning his campaign's schedule, the best fit for an important event was the Neshoba County fair.

- Reagan probably didn't even know he was going to Philadelphia until he got there (candidates don't plan their own events generally), and even then it's doubtful he recalled the killings many years prior.


So we can compromise and just say you're uninformed and gullible, as opposed to being a straight-up liar.

[Joe Republic]

I wonder if Wakie and AuH2O would have had this argument if Reagan and Carter's political affiliations were switched?  I.e. I doubt Wakie would have raised the issue of Reagan's inappropriate speech, or that AuH2O would have argued so condescendingly that he was wrong, if Reagan had been a Democrat.

Just a thought.

[Wakie]

- the South was Reagan's weakest region.

Yep, it was tough for Reagan to defeat an ardent Christian Southerner.  But he pulled it out. 

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Yep, probably true.  And even if it wasn't he certainly had every right to campaign there.

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Candidates don't plan their own events but they certainly are informed about them.  I also find it hard to believe that Reagan would forget about an event which resulted in the FBI sending an army of agents to Mississippi only 16 years after it happened.  1989 is not some distant memory to me right now, why would 1964 be a distant memory then?

[A18]

LOL. Now Wikipedia (leftist dribble) has adopted the line:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%2C_Mississippi

[Joe Republic]

LOL. Now Wikipedia (leftist dribble) has adopted the line:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%2C_Mississippi

Ah yes, Wikipedia is teh libearl media now too.  You realize that you could just edit out any bias yourself if you want to?

[dazzleman]

But the Reagan admin's undoing of much of the Civil Rights Acts certainly helped to lock up MS for the GOP for the next 20 years, didn't it?

Reagan didn't touch the Civil Rights Act, and actually renewed and expanded the Voting Rights Act.  Stop drinking the Kool-Aid.

[A18]

LOL. Now Wikipedia (leftist dribble) has adopted the line:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%2C_Mississippi

Ah yes, Wikipedia is teh libearl media now too.  You realize that you could just edit out any bias yourself if you want to?

You're supposed to "discuss" it first, and I don't feel like having "discussions" with a bunch of jFraud types.