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when during Reagan's presidency did the left back off?
your timeline is off--that was the Clinton years..
posted by
AnCatubh
on June 18, 2004 at 10:18 PM
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great comments!!!
thank you for your fantastic additions to my own thoughts.
posted by
Xeno-x
on June 17, 2004 at 2:21 PM
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well I could rant about Reagan
but as Al Franken said on AirAmerica, "I respect that he's dead." I also believe it was Franken who said that we should put RR on the 1000-dollar bill, because the people who use those bills or had access to them are the ones who benefitted the most under his presidency.
I will say that Californians had a different Governor Reagan, one who was a mixture of Goldwater conservatism and Hollywood liberalism.
It was Pat Buchannan who wrote Reagan's speech at Bitburg, how the dead soldiers -- SS men ! -- were just as much victims of Hitler as those who were gassed.
I'll stop now. tg
posted by
tbgroucho
on June 17, 2004 at 6:55 AM
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cowboy orgasms
Well, U.S. Grant, who was a horribly corrupt president (he might have even been worse than Reagan and Bush, but at least he lived in less risky times), appears on our $50 bill, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if Reagan's mug made it on one too. The American people have a history of admiring cowboy types: those not very bright guys who shoot first and think later, and believe that hitching rides on bombs (remember the character in Dr. Strangelove?) provides the ultimate orgasm.
posted by
lonebutte
on June 17, 2004 at 6:39 AM
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Just like the tactics used...
to squelch valid criticisms of the Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush adventure in Iraq. Have any of those three had to face real mortal danger? Take care westwend.
posted by
man-boy
on June 15, 2004 at 12:21 PM
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M_B
you're probably right on that point.
I just get mad at the way his supporters talk about him now -- the same rhetoric used all along to squelch opposition
posted by
Xeno-x
on June 13, 2004 at 12:14 PM
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Hey westwend!
I get your point and I am staying out of this one. To speak the truth at a time like this only invites unproductive knee-jerk defensiveness.
posted by
man-boy
on June 12, 2004 at 4:06 PM
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