1980 Presidential Candidate Debate: Governor Ronald Reagan and President Jimmy Carter - 10/28/80 

Agreed

+CapAnson12345 mailny bacsue yiu had serious moderaterors that didnt try to push there agenda by asking dumb qustions also you didnt have donors and other idiots in a auduince

I know right, I can barely watch most of today's debates.

+CapAnson12345 : It is like night and day. Debates now are like an episode of a reality TV show, and not because of Trump being on reality TV in the past. Notice the panel is sitting down and calmly and respectfully asking questions not standing and confrontational. The TV set is muted and not a flashy stage like American Idol.

+CapAnson12345 What you said is so right and applies even for far before Mr. Trump's era.

If Ronald could see how his fellow republicans are treating each other he would be absolutely disgusted by what he would see

When did Reagan ever have a grasp of any of the issues? The man was a plagiarist.

Idk i think trump happened

Reagan wasn't polite and civilized. Do a simple search for Reagan and My Mic. I Paid For It. Which is a line he stole from a movie.

thats right, we need a person like ronald reagan.

Yup! What a shame it's become. Peace!

LITTLE MARCO!

Oh please no. The world can't afford that again.

+Nightbob Sounds like something Jerry Springer should mediate.

I don't understand what that means. Anyone care to explain?

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+John S you have to keep in mind the lust for ratings. I'm not against it, but when you mix capitalism, ratings, and political commentary into a modern day world of twitter and other social media, you get today's modern debates

+John S It's even more amazing when you think about how deeply Reagan and Carter despised one another, yet they kept the whole debate at a very professional level.

+John S Don't be such a fuddy duddy ; p

+MrSihrus It's not only ratings today but the ability to grab and keep the attention of viewers. Many Americans today are, unfortunately, too mentally lazy to sit and watch an intellectual conversation, even one as important as a presidential candidate debate. Today if a TV show doesn't spoon-feed you controversy or egregious sex or violence, it will not be around long.

Naghi Astnei I didn't say he was wrong, I said he was a fuddy duddy. Politics is and has always been a blood sport, Reagan said some harsh things about his opponents as well, let's not pretend politics has always been super civil. With the exception of Hillary and Trump I don't think the actions of current candidates are "downright sickening".

One of the best Internet Explorer jokes I've seen

Styxhexenhammer666 666, swings and hits a freaking HOMERUN!

mark fenner he's that "manson didn't kill anyone nutjob" which kind of reflects badly on you.

Oh please...Obama speaks just as good, even better

+lorilemonade Yes, President TelePrompTer speaks really well.

Obama is a true intellectual. Reagan graduated from a hick Christian college with low academic standards.

+lorilemonade Obama's good at giving speeches, but stutters way more than Reagan. Reagan's voice is a strange combination of soothing and bold, and is way more persuasive

I know I'm a Republican and comparing Reagan to Trump makes me sad.

+darkduck2000 I am still voting for Trump!!!

+Gallo “Greytoppy” de Combate Thats stupid but I guess if you enjoy being lied too, it is still a free country.

Your are stupid and ignorant go cash your food stamps.

Really genius? Maybe you can be a candidate for the Nobel Prize!!!

can you imagine trump

mariogamefreak1 Trump will do fine

+Billy Killett Long Live President TRUMP!

+Grampa Reagan also sent a letter to Trump that he should run and he sent a letter to Ron Paul to never stop fighting for The United States.

You were a child with a childlike mind so you're given a pass for thinking he was so great. You don't know any better

Reagan was a great president way better than carter he both destroyed the soviets in the inside and outside and reaganomics had an okay affect on clintons term he had his mistakes but his wins were much bigger

No, Carter was great lol

Don't let the left wing fool demoralize you. None of these Democrats could hold a candle to Reagan. Democrats who have kept blacks as a permanent underclass - all for the sake of maintaining their power.

themig71 agreed

May her and and Ronald rest in peace.

And the folks who love Bill and Hillary won't be saying how the Reagan's cared for the American people

lorilemonade true dar

that makes you awesome! 1980 represent!

I know your birthday.... Now I know where you live

Zac6230 That makes you old, just kidding, my girlfriend is from the 1970's so I shouldn't complain, but still as a 1990's kid I find you relatively old. :-P

Zac6230 Happy birthday.

Zac6230 this debate was on the eve of my 11th birthday. lol

36 moron

+Edwardo Davila nice NigaHiga referance

Hardly.

msmithstud Throughout history, people have *always* voted with their emotions, including during the time of Reagan.

bzy bee Reagan worst president in a generation. Probable worse then Bush w.

Amen!!

Yeah, inflation is a bitch! Part of the reason for the fall of Rome. The Denarius was first 100% silver and it's lowest value was a fraction of 1 percent.

No kidding, I'll Lincoln and Reagan are both spinning in their graves at Donald Trump

Thank you!! I was looking for that forever!

+Phil Dralle Who? Reagan, Carter, or both? The GOP is a joke. Always has, always will be.

***** Which is why he raised payroll taxes on average Americans and cut taxes for fat cats, and is also why the median wage essentially stopped growing under his watch, and is also why the budget ballooned. The government stopped growing under Reagan? MY GOD the ignorance. The government had never been bigger. More money was spent on the military than ever before. He grew the government. When he was governor, California's schools started to fall apart. He was a terrible politician. I'm so damn sick of phony libertarians who mistake corporate capitalism for free-market capitalism. Reagan was a bought-out shill, along with his VP Bush 1, and his son Bush 2. And now the whole Republican Party. You want a true Republican? Bring back Eisenhower. That guy had the stuff.

JoSciFi Hey Ken, I started working under the Nixon years and only saw my taxes increase---until Reagan, just FYI at that point in time I was a private in the USMC and WITHOUT the pay increase my pay after taxes went up $15 per pay period ($30 per month) which was a huge amount in 1982

I would share that sentiment too if it had any standing in reality. The fact of the matter is the government grew under Reagan, spent more under Reagan (as far as raw percentages), and grew more in debt under Reagan. To blame Obama for taxing and spending? The point of having the government run some things is too ease stress off of markets by putting more money in people's pockets. When few private industries control inelastic goods, they control prices and suck money (and therefore demand) from the people. This is bad for smaller businesses and only good for those few oligopolies. The amount of money Obamacare is going to end up saving people is actually unprecedented, even by the administration's calculations. Spending under Obama? It's low. The deficit, as a share of GDP, fell well below where Bush left it, yet no one speaks about that. But this goes to show the Republicans' strategy: spend and spend, balloon the deficit, then blame the Democrats as tax and spenders. It hasn't been true in any Democratic Presidency since Carter. If you ask me, there are lots of things we could socialize to make the budgets of everyday Americans easier and stimulate the economy. Socialize the internet. Everyone should have free access to it and not have to pay the ridiculous prices they do for private providers, and the infrastructure to maintain it would be very cost efficient and easy. Cell phone providers should be radically broken up and telecom/comcast cronies (and representatives of other competitors) should be banned from running the FCC. And while we're talking about breaking up companies, let's break up New Corp, Time Warner, and GE. Let's break up Bank Of America, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and CitiGroup. If you're for the free market, wouldn't it make sense to introduce more competition? The Free Market doesn't exist. There is no free market, it is an ideal like communism. For any semblance of a free market to exist, there needs to be perfect competition (perfect knowledge, rational decisions, no barriers of entry, no single firm influencing prices, large number of firms, no externalities). None of these factors of perfect competition are achievable without government intervention, which just goes to show the innate contradiction of the ideology itself. Was Adam Smith great? Yes. Is he right today? We've evolved way past him. What Reagan sold you, ideologically, is a sham. He spoke of free markets but made them more consolidated, and same with Clinton, mind you. That's because they don't work for you, they work for who buys them out. Simple as that.

JoSciFi No, you don't understand the difference between debt and deficit, neither do you understand where different forms of spending originated (oval office or congress), or inflation, since it was Democrats in congress spending under Reagan despite his indignation. Reagan won the cold war whilst still shrinking government in real terms by 10%, Fact! You are just rambling when you say free markets cant operate, when it is government regulation which precisely stifles smaller business the most www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2011/05/05/reaganomics-vs-obamanomics-facts-and-figures/

JoSciFi you do realise what you've written is B.S- Reagan tax cuts, repeated cuts raised more tax revenue. The military grew to stop the country being nuked by the USSR, whilst government declined by10% relative to the size of the economy. Your claims on average wages is economic fallacy. When Regan was governed of California it would have been 6th largest in the world, the equivalent of Germany at that time, not today when it is bankrupt. Etc etc

You must be joking.