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Tonight on The Ron Reagan Show... Debate Numero Dos

By Logan Nakyanzi

Listen: Ron Reagan previews the debate with Tim Dickinson

A message from your host Ron Reagan

By all counts Sen. Obama is pulling ahead and McCain is doing his best to close the gap. Tonight as both candidates meet again for another duel, I'm talking with Tim Dickinson, contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, where he authors its political blog, National Affairs Daily. He'll spell out what the "Keating 5" story was all about and why or why not it benefits the Obama campaign to bring it up.

I'll also be joined by David Bender, Air America's resident political guru and host of "Politically Direct, " which airs Sundays on Air America Radio.

And, I'll be taking your calls.

866 – 303 – 2270 IS THE NUMBER TO CALL-IN FOR YOU LISTENERS OUT THERE.

* Scott tells us that NEWSFLASH it's WWE now, not WWF, that's for all the old farts like us, who don't know any better.

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Republican Message

Hi Ron, There is a woman out there running for VP and instead of giving campaign speeches in the traditional way she is in fact encouraging race riots and putting ideas out there that killing an honorable man trying to get elected our next President is ok. This can only be a person not part of the 60's when John & Bobby Kennedy and Dr. King had to die to help our nation knock down these barriers or too stupid to understand what we accomplished back then. In Sarah's Palin's case I say it's both. This message has to get out to Republicans, not only Democrats, but to all US citizens, so they fully understand what kind of a person could very well be our next President. This is very serious and very, very sad. This is the very thing that puts ideas in the minds of people that are not stable. This is not how people of our county campaign for public office, especially the first and second spot. With your show, all of Air America and every other means we have we must stop this dangerous type of campaigning. Thanks for listening. Marilyn from Welaka, Florida

WWE

Don't worry, its only been WWE for over 6 years now.

what do you think about WWE

what do you think about WWE ? i think its worse

Palin is no Reagan

TO: Ron Reagan
FROM: Bill X in Chicago
RE: Palin trying to impersonate your Dad

Listen to Palin in the V.P. debate, her folksy language and behavior was totally phony. She even used your Dad's line "there you go again" when she challenged Joe Biden. You should make commercials for Obama, base it on the V.P. debate when Lloyd Bentsen debated Dan Quayle. Remember Quayle tried to compare himself to JFK? Then Lloyd Bentsen said (famously) "I knew, John Kennedy, John Kennedy was a friend of mine, sir you are no John Kennedy."

You could do that with Palin: make an Obama campaign commercial, just a simple head shot of you talking. You can show a little clip of Palin saying "there you go again" or some other folksy comment meant to imitate your Dad. You could say "Governor, Ronald Reagan was my best friend, Ronald Reagan was my Dad. Sarah Palin, you're no Ronald Reagan."

The difference is that your Dad talked in a folksy manner all his life, it was not just a phony stunt for politics. Whether people agreed with your Dad's politics or not, we knew he was a good person and meant well. Palin is NOT a good person, she is a backstabbing vindictive liar and a phony. You can make a difference by calling her on this.

We miss you on Hardball. Good luck on Air America.

Obama's personal message on health care

Obama's most powerful moment during last night's debate was when he talked about his mother, who died of ovarian cancer at the age of 53. He said that she spent her last year arguing with the insurance company that was trying to deny her benefits, they claimed it was a pre-existing condition. Obama said with great conviction, that when he becomes president, he is never going to let a health insurance company treat anybody like that.

Usually Obama is cool and collected and intellectual. But when he talked about his mother arguing with the insurance company, he was full of emotion and conviction to fix this terrible injustice. His message jumped right off the screen into the lives of millions of Americans who are suffering today. This is a powerful message. Its a simple message about millions of people suffering due to discrimination.

In our society, almost every kind of discrimination is now illegal. But discrimination against sick people is apparently perfectly legal. How outrageous is this injustice? All of us sick people are "redlined" just like property was redlined in impoverished neighborhoods. Even redlining is now illegal, but health insurance discrimination lives on.

Ask people on your show to call in if they have ever suffered employment discrimination since they got sick, your phone lines will all be jammed.

Big Pharma sells their marketing data to anybody willing to pay their low fee of about $15. They sell lists of which drugs are sold by which doctors, then that database is merged with other databases which match up with our social security numbers. Medical privacy is a myth, its all on the internet. Any information that is online, somebody can get it.

We have a country that allows anybody with the dreaded pre-existing condition to be discriminated against not only for health insurance, but life insurance and every other kind of insurance, to suffer employment discrimination and who knows what other types of discrimination.

Don't ever get sick because if you do, then you could be ruined financially. Millions of Americans already have been ruined, and the rest of you are on the banana peel.

This would make a great topic for your show.

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