Got this idea from Bill Bennett this morning on the radio...
We've all heard Ryan spew out his adoration and praise of everything "Reagan" more times than any of us can count. Some is justified, I don't deny... other portions are perhaps slanted by youthfull idealism. Much the same way Ryan delights in ripping on OUR favorite Presidents with contempt and disdain.
Bennett was making the case that the greatest service historians can do for the Founding Fathers was to show them to be MORTAL and FALLIBLE rather than superhuman thinkers without flaw or reproach. What is the greater acheivement? To have suceeded so wildly as a simple "mortal", or to have accomplished the same by "infallible" supermen?
So, the game today?
What were Reagan's greatest FAILURES in his 8-year term of office?
Surely, not even Ryan can suggest that Reagan enjoyed the ONLY Administration that DIDN'T have some failures to balance out success? What were they? How do they effect us today? How have they impacted our society and the world at large? How do they compare to the failures of Presidents since? Or previous?
We have ALL (Republican and Democrat alike) written volumes on the failings of Carter, Clinton, FDR, Nixon, Johnson... nearly any PotUS you might care to name, we've ripped 'em. And while I admit to having "critiqued" Reagan more than once (and ALWAYS elloquently), I will play this game as objectively and honestly as I can... I promise.
So, who's first?
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