Ronald Reagan.

I spit on GE.

All over the news is the marketing ploy of associating Obama with Reagan. Just look at that recent cover of Time magazine.

Even more recently was the photo-op of Obama and J. Immelt. So, knowing and seeing for the past couple of years the moves of Immelt and GE, and his getting into bed with this Leftist administration, reminds me of Hayek’s, “Road to Serfdom.” When you read it, you’ll see how Big Corporations get into bed with governments, and how that works out in totalitarian regimes.

The Left intends to continue with this PR gambit of associating Obama with Reagan. I can only hope that Americans are not going to buy it, nor enable it.

this time in history, I have no doubt in my mind if GE had been in Germany leading up to WWII they would be paying billions in reparations to Jews. They are despicable, bordering on traitorous with their selling to Iran and Iraq during the embargo of goods to both countries….I will never buy a GE product, EVER! I double check all my purchases to ensure that it is not made by them and I suggest all Conservative Americans do the same….the sooner they are bankrupt the quicker they can be forgotten.

GE at the behest of Bobby Kennedy fired Ronald Reagan and changed their slogan from
Progress is our most important product.
GE. We bring good things to life!
(1979 – abandoned slogan in 2002) to
Imagination at Work

I reject the John Lennon “Imagine” view GE has of the world and embrace Ronald Reagan’s American freedom view. Everyone should be able to see through the history revisionism that GE is attempting.

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I was afraid to comment on our colleague’s diary over yonder for fear of being torn to shreds. (Did he miss the Civility Sermon of a few weeks ago?).

My disgust at the attempts to link Reagan in any way to Obama pales in comparison to the disgust I feel at the sight of Jeffrey Immelt walking across the White House lawn like he owns the place.

As a consolation, however, I take heart when I hear young people waking up to the story of Ronald Reagan. Did you know that the name “Reagan” — as a first name — is quite popular in my daughter’s high school here in Virginia? (I could not give the name to my own children because … drumroll … it happens to be our surname! Drives the liberals crazy!)

….all those defense contracts? Never mind that they were many times the only available source. At least they weren’t consorting with the enemy.

I want you to pretend for a moment that during the 1980s the Heritage Foundation had hired Bill Clinton as a spokesman and then fired him for his liberal viewpoints at the behest of the Reagan administration.

Further, pretend that it is some years in the future and the Democrats (due to the collapse and failure of the Obama administration) still reveres the idea of Bill Clinton, invoking his budget prowess and economic growth, as well as his remarkable ability to communicate with the masses.

After his passing, when he is no longer able to distance himself from the policies of the Heritage Foundation, they try to improve their public image and sway potential converts by producing a video praising the greatness of Bill Clinton and capitalizing on their previous relationship with him (failing to mention, of course, that they fired him and that they oppose everything he stood for.)

Do any of you think, for one moment, that the anchors of MSNBC, as well as NBC personalities Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira (yes, both GE subsidiaries) would not lead the broadcast thus:

“Today, the Heritage Foundation, which at one time employed Bill Clinton but then fired him for his political beliefs, has produced a video commemorating his Presidency. It is true that he was a great President, and beloved by many in this country, maintaining high approval ratings even though he’s been out of office many years.

“No one should mistake this, though their tribute video is well made, and accurate insofar as it offers respect for a great and honored President, it is also true that that President, Bill Clinton, would have opposed the policies and activities of the Heritage Foundation with every fiber of his being.

“Now, I’d like to bring the opinion of another respected conservative personality to discuss the hypocrisy reflected in this clumsy propaganda attempt. Mr. David Brooks, tell us what you think of this…”

The left, along with their media cohorts, are masters at white-washing history, explaining why the public at large believes that Republicans opposed civil rights and were the authors of Jim Crow laws; that we were routed in the Tet offensive; et. al.

We fail when we allow them to use their bullhorn without ever calling them to account for their previous (and for that matter, current) activities.

This effort should have been greeted with a similar reception on the part of Republicans. Rather than praise them for their double-minded ways, we should mock them the way this caricature mocked the similar attempt by Time Magazine:

h/t slapblog.com

And then, of course, we should continue to push our elected reps to act more like Ronald Magnamus Reagan and less like spineless squishes.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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it would be easier if the producers of the vid weren’t so politically left now. That was a big reason I posted the townhall.com audio of their Reagan special in RedHot. Immelt has no respect from me, and I’m sorry, but his actions of cozying up to this anti-business administration does reflect on the company and all they do. Again, the video was good, but it would be better if the pcers did not have the taint of leftism about them.

Oh, and Happy 100th, Mr. President! There will never be another like you, but we will continue to search for one as close as possible. Thank you for the best presidency and leadership of my lifetime.

Thank you EPU and Steve Foley for bringing that magnificent video to our attention. That one made my tears fall. And Fred Thompson is the perfect narrator for it. He has a magnificent voice, as did Ronald Magnamus, and it is clear that he is devoted to his principals.

Good find.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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and amplified corporate “Globalism” to the point of anti-Americanism. It was the corporation that prided itself on being driven “forward” by academia… leaving it unsaid that it was being driven by leftist ideologue academia with Harvard Business School in the lead.

Almost anything bad you can say about big business in the 20th century was pioneered by GE with the backing of big government. GE embodies the dire warning against the Military Industrial Complex issued by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his famous farewell address.

It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Obama thinks he is projecting a pro-business image in his embracing GE as his pet corporation, and that Immelt believes he is projecting a patriotic image in his nuzzling of the big government teat. They seem that ideologically blinded.

Ronald Reagan was the President of my youth. I never realized how spoiled I became of having him be the first President I was ever able to vote for.

It makes me wretch to see him on the same magazine cover as self-annointed messiah; a man of great humility next to a man who’s narcissism knows no bounds. The Left’s utter shamelessness in using a man they reviled and ridiculed in their attempt to ‘repackage’ the biggest anti-American empty suit to ever occupy the WH makes me want to vomit.

And I might be able to appreciate GE’s tribute to this incredible man if they weren’t part and parcel of this whole shameful and disgusting con job in attempting to convince American that they aren’t who they really are, and that President Obama isn’t who he claims to be.

Barack Hussein Obama isn’t fit to bring Ronald Wilson Reagan his slippers.

Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

claims he’s the new Ronald Reagan. Well, let me tell you something. I knew Ronald Reagan. He was a friend of mine. And Mr. Obama, you’re no Ronald Reagan.” — rickbull, 2011

of the Reagan Library. Mayor Willie Brown actually said that Obama had much more in common with Reagan than he did with Clinton and that he had been hampered by having a Congress that was much more far-left progressive than he was. Andrea Mitchell actually said that Republicans and conservatives were trying to co-opt Reagan as one of their own, and that he was the great compromiser and we should learn from him. James Baker simply laughed at Brown’s comment. Peggy Noonan set Mitchell straight, commenting that Reagan was both a Republican and a conservative, and that he espoused conservative principles throughout his entire life. She noted that even in his earliest speeches, he was conservative.

Normally I would have turned off anything with Mitchell, especially since I was listening to this drivel on the way home from church and was sorely tempted to yell some not so Christian language at the squawkers. But then out of the wilderness came a voice of comfort, hope and optimism – Reagan’s speech after the Challenger disaster. This brought tears to my eyes, and I suddenly felt very sad for those (like Mitchell & Brown & Obama) who never really knew Reagan. They are truly missing out on this great country and its citizens. I count myself extremely fortunate to be among those Americans who knew and loved President Ronald Reagan. I pray that there’s another Reagan in our future.

Commercial jet engines.

Just checked. I’m on an Airbus to CPAC and back.. engines made by, you guessed it. GE.

‘Bout time somebody called out those hypocritical b*st*rds!!

Reagan due to political pressure before this controversy. It puts much of what’s happening now with GE in perspective.

However I would disagree with your statement that you reject a message simply on the identity of the messenger.

If God chose to talk to Balaam though the mouth of an ass, then we need to be prepared that sometime we too might have find wisdom through the words of an ass.

no matter how many millions you will make by eliminating the domestic competition of conventional bulbs to your curly fry bulbs.

I know, I know, Obey1 owed you for sucking up and supporting his campaign.

Regards

(Written as I sit on 6 cases of 130 volt bulbs. I will be converting to toxic bulbs, oh, 10 years after the rest of you….maybe…)

Well reasoned. You convinced me.

GE will get my incandescent bulbs when they pry them from my cold, dead hands.