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A president worthy of Mount Rushmore
The Telegraph (U.K.) ^
| 06/07/04
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Posted on 06/06/2004 5:49:10 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Denver Ditdat
A Gary Larson scenario, but alas, the subjects are human. I am still hoping for a return. How long must we suffer?
To: kittymyrib
No, I don't. FDR has a special place in Hell with Uncle Joe, where he can explain why, altho he knew about the SS trains rolling to Poland, never bothered to bomb them or the tracks.
To: Atchafalaya
I loved Gary Larson and Bill Watterson. Both are sorely missed, and it doesn't look as if they ever intend to return. At least they left at the top of their game. It's always a pity to think "You know, so-and-so should have retired years ago. I remember when he used to be funny."
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posted on
06/06/2004 10:02:09 PM PDT
by
Denver Ditdat
(Ronald Wilson Reagan 1911-2004, RIP.)
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To: Pokey78
Reagan never really received his due in this country, both for substantive and for stylistic reasons But Clinton did, despite a complete absence of legislative achievement (substantive), and despite his oral servicings by am ugly fat chick in the Oval Office (stylistic).
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posted on
06/06/2004 10:12:42 PM PDT
by
montag813
("A nation can survive fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.")
To: Pokey78
Reagan is indeed worthy of Mount Rushmore!
Whether or not it would ruin the artistic integrity of the original is a different issue.
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posted on
06/06/2004 10:39:07 PM PDT
by
TOUGH STOUGH
( A vote for George Bush is a principled vote!)
To: ScottFromSpokane; Mo1
I say we find Reagan his own mountain. If it'll bring the Dems in on the deal, we can put FDR up there too--the American Presidents who defeated the great homicidal ideologies of the 20th Century.I like that idea Scott.
Thanks for the ping Mo1. A Very good read.
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posted on
06/06/2004 10:39:09 PM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(John Kerry: An old creep, with gray hair, trying to look like he's 30 years old.)
To: WorkingClassFilth
The left of the 30's was as rabid then as it is nowThere existed the Communist Party back then too.
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posted on
06/06/2004 10:45:46 PM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(John Kerry: An old creep, with gray hair, trying to look like he's 30 years old.)
To: Fishrrman
I think you are on to something.
The Reagan Monument at the Capitol.
A tribute to his resolve, his skills as a communicator, his personal relationship with God.
A celebration of his triumph over communism, and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, and the freedom of tens of millions of central Europeans.
It would be something.
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posted on
06/06/2004 11:02:17 PM PDT
by
RinaseaofDs
(War is the remedy our enemies have chosen. And I say let us give them all they want; not a word of a)
To: ScottFromSpokane
to, say, paint Linda Vester into the Mona Lisa.I'd support that!
(In all seriousness, your points are well-made, and I tend to agree.)
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posted on
06/06/2004 11:15:25 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(Godspeed, President Reagan....And thank you.)
To: The Great RJ
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posted on
06/06/2004 11:16:42 PM PDT
by
BJungNan
To: Bommer
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posted on
06/07/2004 4:57:21 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. -- Gen G. Patton Jr)
To: Pokey78
'The presidents were selected on the basis of what each symbolized. George Washington represents the struggle for independence, Thomas Jefferson the idea of government by the people. Abraham Lincoln for his ideas on equality and the permanent union of the states, and Theodore Roosevelt for the 20th century role of the United States in world affairs. '< p>I found this in a search. I thought that I had been told by a guide there that each President was there for what they added to the country. Washington for the founding of the country, Jefferson for the Louisiana Purchase, Lincoln for maintaining the country, and Teddy for the Panama Canal.
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posted on
06/07/2004 5:15:23 AM PDT
by
mathluv
(Protect my grandchildren's future. Vote for Bush/Cheney '04.)
To: Smartass
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posted on
06/07/2004 6:21:33 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is ONLY ONE good Democrat: one that has just been voted OUT of POWER ! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: VaBthang4
Put FDR & Reagan up on Rushmore. You big government people are amusing.
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posted on
06/07/2004 9:28:29 AM PDT
by
jmc813
(Help save a life - www.marrow.org)
To: Pokey78
Sadly they can not put anymore faces on Mt. Rushmore, there is not anymore suitable rock on the mountain for a scupture of this size.
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posted on
06/07/2004 9:37:01 AM PDT
by
TXBSAFH
(Power corrupts..... Absolute power can be fun.)
To: jmc813
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posted on
06/07/2004 9:43:19 AM PDT
by
VaBthang4
("He who watches over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps")
To: VaBthang4
Yes. The New Deal does make us conservatives a bit bitter.
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posted on
06/07/2004 9:50:02 AM PDT
by
jmc813
(Help save a life - www.marrow.org)
To: Pokey78
I think putting Reagan on Rushmore should be an automatic, no-doubt kind of decision.
On the other hand, I understand there is not enough stable rock remaining. I hope that's not true.
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posted on
06/07/2004 9:52:09 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Some leftists find Bush's very existence to be a "constant oppressive force in their daily psyche.")
To: VaBthang4
HERBAL RIGHTS NOW![giggle]
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posted on
06/07/2004 9:53:15 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Some leftists find Bush's very existence to be a "constant oppressive force in their daily psyche.")
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