Posted on 10/15/2004 9:26:22 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
As often happens with our Presidents, the recent outpouring of grief over the death of Ronald Reagan has tended to distort the historical record. This is certainly understandable, especially considering Reagan’s tragic final illness, which by all accounts he faced with typical personal courage for as long as he could.
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Cancel it, demand a refund and donate the refund to FreeRepublic.
Luckily, it is a free subscription otherwise I would have cancelled it.
Cancel it anyway. It's so biased, tell 'em, you don't want it even if it's free. That'll send a message. Then send me a hundred dollars.
I'd tell those scumbag idiots at this magazine to shove it!
They also think FDR's the most underrated President. More reason to cancel your subscription.
Ya, he only won the Cold War. Not a big deal. Carter was a much better president.
/DU-mode off
Like BUSINESS WEEK. I read that magazine faithfully for twenty years. I cancelled after it promoted Bill Clinton in 1996.
BW is now a full-blown socialist rag.
The astronomy and physics stuff is still great, but after the relentless global warming and stupid sociology articles, their tribute to the bravery of Henry Waxman and his crusade against Bush's "religious assault on science" may have been the last straw.
I was going to say that if this is like past U/O issues, American Heritage brings in celebrities and gives them free rein to give their ideas of what is underrated and overrated, but it says this guy is a regular writer for the magazine. So, screw 'em.
Another magazine that used to be good but I won't touch now is American History. They brought in Dougie Brinkley as top editor, and ran a glowing piece on Kerry in 'Nam soon thereafter. Oh, yeah, and he bashed Reagan in his very first issue.
I know a man. His wife's record was miserable. Often there were some dirty dishes in the sink when they went to bed. The laundry wasn't always done perfectly, she even mixed some darks with whites and he wore a pink shirt to work one day. She got a few dings in the family van as well. She even backed over the neighbor's mailbox once. But she loved her kids. She read to them as children. She helped with homework when they were teenagers, and even was hip enough to not embarrass them in front of girlfriends and boy friends. She treated her husband like a king. She stood by him when his company went for younger, less expensive workers. She encouraged him when he wanted to start a business. She never gave up when it failed, and took a part time job so he could try to start another. Her kids made it thru college even though they had to go to the local community college due to finances. Her husbands business never set any records, but she made him feel like the entrepreneur of the year. They got by just barely financially. But he looked forward to coming home to the not so perfectly clean house every night. Her kids left the nest, but fly back in very often because after all, she made it 'home.' They now have made a positive impact on the community. She had a cancer scare recently. A lot of family and friends were gathered together. All the outpouring of emotion over her tended to distort the historical record of her housekeeping skills, at least to someone who's life was not touched by the artistry of her love, and her natural ability and desire to lift others a little bit above where they were, and a little closer to where they could be.
Did they ask the thousands of Millionaires Reaganomics produced?
Did they ask anyone in the Military that served under Reagan?
Did they ask most of South America?
Or did they simply ask a bunch of bed wetting liberal professors and Hollywood has beens who haven't met a dictator they didn't worship?
I hadn't read SA for years and recently picked up a copy. It wasn't even remotely like the magazine I remembered.
Was there really a time when you could pick a science or history magazine and not be pummeled with leftist dogma, or was I just so naive back then that I didn't notice it?
Fans of President Reagan: American History the most overrated magazine ever.
> Reagan most overrated President ever
Yep, won WW-III without firing a shot.
The tribalists will never forgive him for ruining their
favorite workers paradise.
No, the most overrated President in history is/was/and most likely will always be: William Jefferson Clinton. In spite of all he did and didn't do, some still act as though he was the Second Coming.
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