The Son Also Rises (Q&A with Ron Reagan)

The New York Times Magazine ^ | 06/27/04 | DEBORAH SOLOMON

[Dick Vomer]

I can see junior being the same as Longshank's son, but based on the rest of your post, I sense you don't want to equate President Reagan with Longshank himself.

nope Ron Reagan had more in common with......

[maggief]

"How did your mother feel about being ushered to her seat by President Bush?

Well, he did a better job than Dick Cheney did when he came to the rotunda. I felt so bad. Cheney brought my mother up to the casket, so she could pay her respects. She is in her 80's, and she has glaucoma and has trouble seeing. There were steps, and he left her there. He just stood there, letting her flounder. I don't think he's a mindful human being. That's probably the nicest way I can put it.

How serious is your mother's glaucoma?

I don't know the specifics. She can still see. You may have noticed that she was wearing large glasses at one point."

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... Reagan said he expected his mother to continue to speak out in favor of stem cell research. Nancy Reagan has long argued that such work could lead to cures for a number of diseases like the Alzheimer's that afflicted her husband.

He said Nancy Reagan was doing "pretty well."

"I've got to hand it to her. She's 83 years old. She doesn't get around as well as she used to, a little glaucoma," he said. But, "She's a professional."

(snip)



http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040624_1843.html

[kerryveryscary]

"We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved."

This says it all for me. Anyone who has children and pets knows that the only person who could even contemplate a statement like this is a self-centered, immature fool. When you have children, everything in your life revolves around them. When you have pets, you leave an extra helping of food in their dish when you decide to take a trip for the weekend. There is NO comparison. Of course, to realize that there is no comparison you would have to actually take responsibility for something, which is just.. like.. way.. too.. heavy.. man.

[xrp]

Probably one of these types that thinks that humans are a virus on this planet.

Hah! I come across these kinds of people once in awhile. They advocate "extinction of the human race". I ask them why they haven't led by example, yet.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" What is a sangha?"

A sangha is a Buddhist community.
I was being mischievous :-).

[ambrose]

When you have pets, you leave an extra helping of food in their dish when you decide to take a trip for the weekend.

Maybe that is how you treat YOUR pets...

[Chode]

RonBoy is just a RINO... Reagan in name only.

[ErnBatavia]

Do you and your wife, Doria, have children?

No. We have three cats.

That settles it...not that there was ever any question...

[ErnBatavia]

What is a sangha?

A fruity concoction involving citrus and cheap wine.

:)

[RW1974]

With Ron Reagan Jr the acorn not only didn't fall near the tree, it didn't even land in the same yard.

I fully expect to see him, in his tutu, slamming W at the Dem convention.

God Bless Mike Reagan, and the departed Maureen Reagan. They were the good kids who both loved their father and believed in his legacy.

[Kaslin]

For the record, his name is not Ron, Jr.

President Reagan's full name was Ronald Wilson Reagan. The ballerina's name is Ronald Prescott Reagan.

Technically that makes him not a Junior.

Carry on.

It irks me when the leftwingers do the same thing with the president and call him jr. His name is George Walker Bush and 41's name is George Herbert walker Bush. He had two middle names

[Castlebar]

Jake Barnes - the hero of The Sun Also Rises - had his penis severed by Austrian shrapnel on the Isonzo/Piave front. Bullfighting was an allegory in the novel.

[kerryveryscary]

Here ya go

[IncPen]

Wow. Why can't they run the United States with that kind of efficiency?

This is an example of media bias on the part of the NYT interviewer.

It's too bad for the lib interviewer that Bush's administration toppled an enemy government in less than a month. No other government in human history has ever been as efficient when performing such a task.

Don't forget, these same people (the NYT, and Ron) think that government is qualified to make medical decisions for you...

[Lancey Howard]

Ronnie is a scumbag.

Oh, and welcome to Free Republic.

[Porterville]

Oh, it has been a few years, I thought he took a horn in the groin... doesn't change the point.

[beaversmom]

He was just a very warm man, and he worked hard to impress upon his children the value of kindness. He was biologically incapable of gossip. There was no smallness in him.

In other words, everything you are not, Ron P.

[LowCountryJoe]

...Reagan in name only.

Nice!