» posted on Friday, October 31st, 2014 at 12:26 pm by RadioGuyJoe

50th Anniversary of “A Time for Choosing”

It’s easy to listen to Ronald Reagan’s A Time for Choosing speech, delivered October 27, 1964, and marvel at how prescient he was. What Reagan said half a century ago is just as true today as it was then. Certainly, his remarks were dated; they were delivered in support of Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign against Lyndon Johnson. But replace Kruschev with Putin and warnings of Big Government with Obamacare or amnesty for those who break the law to enter our nation and that speech could just as easily be delivered today as it was 50 years ago.

But the remarkable clarity of Reagan’s speech lies not in his ability to see into the future. It is because he fully understood the destructive nature of modern statist liberalism; its demands on society and the people within it are no different today than they were in earlier times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY#t=557