who's the real champion?

I watched a feature on the History Channel this weekend that examined the careers of all of our Presidents. Pres. Reagan was described as "an unskilled politician", "not particularly bright", "emotionally detached", and "the luckiest guy in the world" because the Soviet Union just happened to collapse while he was sleeping through Cabinet meetings. Pres. Clinton was described as "a brilliant politician" and an "intellectual giant" who saved our economy after "Reaganomics" saddled us with an enormous deficit. Wow! So many lies, so little time! Let's look at the facts:

1. When Reagan took office in 1981 America's economy was the worst it had been since the Great Depression. The policies of "The Pitiful Peanut Farmer" were responsible for that. The Reagan tax cuts were like rocket fuel for the economy, and the 1980's saw unprecedented American prosperity.

2. The huge deficits were the result of a Democrat-controlled Congress spending money like a drunken sailor in a Vietnamese brothel, even as Pres. Reagan begged them to reign in spending on domestic programs. The Dems refused.

3. Communism had spread farther and farther across the globe every year since Truman announced his ill-conceived plan of "containment". When Reagan took office, he used the power of political rhetoric to put the Soviet Union on notice that there was a new sheriff in town. He accelerated defense spending to a rate that the Soviet economy couldn't match. Reagan announced his vision for SDI which, although somewhat bizarre and sci-fi in nature, caused the Soviet economy to grind to a halt as they attempted to match our supposed technology. The Soviet people, encouraged by the words of Pres. Reagan, did the rest and the Soviet Union was swept into "the dust-bin of history."

4. As for Clinton? He received less than 50% of the popular vote in both of his elections. He won in 1992 only because Bush I broke his promise and pushed for a tax increase. He won in 1996 only because the GOP ran a broken down Bob Dole against him. Before Clinton took office, both houses of Congress were controlled by the Democrats, most of our nation's governors were Democrats, and most state legislatures across the land were controlled by the Democrats. When "The Master Politician" left office, all of the above were strongly GOP controlled. A strong case could be made arguing that William Jefferson Clinton almost single-handedly destroyed the Democrat Party. Oh, and by the way, the 1980's deficits caused by the Democrat Congress were wiped out by Newt Gingrich as part of the Republican Revolt of 1994. You can look it up.