I had the choice of reading Cohen's column or giving my cat a bath........
Posted on 07/15/2004 8:03:11 PM PDT by beckett
Ron Reagan's Pere Pressure
By Richard Cohen
Thursday, July 15, 2004; Page A21
... Let's leave aside the implied accusation that Bush is publicly religious not out of conviction but "to gain political advantage" and question the appropriateness of the statement -- at the burial and citing the dead Reagan. And let us also concede that if Ron Reagan were not his father's son, not only would he not have been at that funeral -- by virtue of what achievement? -- but no one would have paid him any attention. He had, as he well knew, expropriated his father's fame and stature for his own purposes....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
What I do know is that Ron Reagan is going to speak at the Democratic National Convention because his name is Ron Reagan. He is not a famous Democrat and he is not a well-known ethicist or medical researcher. He will be there just to stick it to the GOP and Bush and to suggest, as do the selfish when they would rather golf than attend a funeral, that they have the permission of the deceased. There's a term for this sort of thing.
Grave robbery.
I had the choice of reading Cohen's column or giving my cat a bath........
"pere"? the correct spelling is "peer".
Girly boy Ron is pure scum.
Pere is french for father.
Cohen (or the Washington Post headline writer) is doing a play on the phrase "peer pressure," hoping to suggest that Ron Jr is pressuring his father (the late, great Pere Reagan) to hold a view Jr cannot claim with any assurance Dad might have held when he was among the living.
Pere is father, en Francais.
Ron Reagan was born without his fathers looks, talent and charisma. He wants his few minutes of fame and he will take it anyway he can get it. The Libs are all too willing to use exploit him. The GOP just looks better all the time.
Ron's appearance at the librat convention should create an amusing backlash against both Ron and his beloved librats.
Cohen's comments on stem cells were offensive, agreed, especially the charge that Bush takes the argument to the point of "inanity."
Suit yourself. There's some delectable lefty on lefty hatchet work in there, though.
No bias here.....
I read it in the Daily News yesterday, and was surprised nobody had posted it yet. What an excellent column. I particularly liked the last line.
Could you please post the last line?
Howlin's post #2 contains the tail end of the column.
Check out post 2 on this thread -- Howlin posted it. Cohen accused Ron of grave robbery!
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