Reagan should be on the $3 bill

[ringmastery]

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/ny-nybres113845462jun11,0,5005058,print.column?coll=ny-ny-columnists

This man Reagan was 93 years old and out of it with Alzheimer's for many years and I don't see how anybody can summon grief. They proclaimed it a deep religious ceremony. Which it is not. His whole weeklong funeral is cheap, utterly distasteful American publicity.

The great American news industry, the Pekinese of the Press with so much room and time and nothing to say, compared Reagan to Lincoln and Hamilton, they really did. This is like claiming that the maintenance man wrote the Bill of Rights. And almost all the reporters agreed that Reagan was the man who brought down Russia in the Cold War.

Just saying this is absolutely sinful. The Cold War was won by a long memo written by George Kennan, who worked in the State Department and sent the memo by telegram about the need for a "Policy of Containment" on Russia. Kennan said the contradictions in their system would ruin them. Keep them where they are and they will tear themselves apart. We followed Kennan's policy for over 40 years. The Soviets made it worse on themselves by building a wall in East Berlin. When they had to tear it down and give up their system, Kennan was in Princeton and he sat down to dinner.

I thought that children were taught this. Instead, all week, reporters told us that Ronald Reagan won the Cold War. Beautiful.

Ronald Reagan was an actor. He was as real as the line he used to keep his fame alive. "Win one for the Gipper."

The line was complete Hollywood, down to agents who fought over it.

[BlueJazz]

1. Ronald Reagan exemplified what the Republican Party...

..seems to stand for .. P-H-O-N-E-Y...

These are the same people who wave the Flag while singing the National Anthem while they have crocodile tears about "Our Blessed America"
while screwing everybody they employ, work for, and know.

I work with them every day and (you're right) they're about as sincere as a 3 Dollar bill.

[Cleita]

2. No, I still think that should be reserved for *w.

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