Posted on 06/07/2004 8:55:33 PM PDT by Kiss Me Hardy
It took a while, but I finally realized the Gipper was a lot smarter than the folks who derided him. Folks, in other words, like me
It was Christmas six years ago when Ronald Reagan, who died on Saturday at the age of 93, became an unexpected addition to our family, thanks to my son, who was then 11. As every parent knows, kids that age can have strange ideas about what the well-equipped adult really needs, so when Squirt handed me a little box with a mysterious present clunking heavily inside, I expected a clock or cast-iron sock rack or some such equally useless thing. What emerged instead was a small bust of the 40th President of the United States, whose forever-frozen smile gazed up from the wreckage of ribbon and gift wrap with more than a dash of mockery.
A statue of Reagan! A joke, right? His mother must have put the boy up to it. But no, she was just as genuinely bemused. What could he have been thinking to mark Christmas with this grinning, empty-headed lump, seven inches of cast-bronze conservative kitsch?
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(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...
Nice piece on RR. But it's sad to see that someone who thinks like this can actually earn a living writing about business. Sigh.
That Reagan was a twit went without saying, but I said it anyway, and with some vitriol. For example, there was the moron's blunder at the Detroit convention, where he said trees were worse polluters than cars. What a dolt not to know the difference between carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide.
What this author fails to realize is that the pollution from trees is terpenes (isoprenes) and they indeed are more voluminous than cars made since ECM direct-fuel-injection.
Every foreigner fancies himself the next Alexis de Toqueville.
From the article: "So here's a toast to a simple man who had the wit to ignore his betters..."
At some future date, this idiot will have revealed to him exactly who was his "better." Pity the tears of remore born of hubris.
Laura Ingraham "gets it" about Reagan, even more than this Business Week guy.
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