why do people wait for a bloke to die before they list all the bad things he did? Would you have said these things before he died? If so, why didn't you?
I was a kid...but I voted against him in the school mock election, with great fervor. I never once wanted him to be president or admired him. I considered him mediocre at best and inept at worst.
There are presidents MUCH more worthy of beatification than Reagan, and I, and, I suspect, many of my peers, have been sideswiped by this sentimentality about and glorification of Reagan (which got into full swing, I point out jadedly, right about the time that the Republican party started swinging into election mode), and many of those peers have felt the need to say, "What?! At best, he was just another president." I don't see anything wrong with that...in the end, it balances out.
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Date: 7 Jun 2004 06:41 (UTC)There are presidents MUCH more worthy of beatification than Reagan, and I, and, I suspect, many of my peers, have been sideswiped by this sentimentality about and glorification of Reagan (which got into full swing, I point out jadedly, right about the time that the Republican party started swinging into election mode), and many of those peers have felt the need to say, "What?! At best, he was just another president." I don't see anything wrong with that...in the end, it balances out.