Posted on 02/04/2008 6:48:52 AM PST by pabianice
I think I might be the only person who still has this opinion, but I need to get it out there. I think the inappropriate loving of dead people, commonly known as necrophilia, is just plain wrong and weird. There, I said it.
The thing is, all the Republican presidential candidates, at least one of the Democratic candidates and a good 64 percent of Americans disagree with me. For those of you that think I'm overestimating this problem, I only have to mention one name: Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Ever since the ex-president kicked the bucket in 2004, it seems that every man, woman and child in politics has rushed to make a comparison between themselves and Reagan. Oddly enough, they somehow mean it in a good way. The problem I see with this is that, to put it lightly, Reagan was not a good president. More than any other administration, present included, Reagan's was the most forwardly corrupt. Anything that brought shame to the nation could be brushed away with a sheepish grin and a timely invasion of a third world country.
It's true, as a country we do owe a lot of things to the man. Without his tough stance on crime, we might not have the largest prison population in the world. We owe him a debt for creating a huge military industrial complex that drains away into our literal national debt, another thing that Reagan left us. Above all, we can thank him for starting the trend of presidents not needing to be held accountable for their actions.
Most Republican candidates want to copy Reagan's approach to business, claiming "Reaganomics" would create a better economy. As college students are about to go out into the job market, we need to pray that they are lying. The economy under Reagan went great for some people, as long as they were already loaded. For everybody else, it was a process of waiting for some of that cash to hopefully trickle down. And for the record, even that bubble burst in 1987. Is this the system we want to go back to?
You also hear praise about Reagan when politicians want to talk about national security. However, more than any other president in the past, we can thank Reagan for the mess we are in now. It was under Reagan's administration that Muslim fanatics in Afghanistan were given all sorts of weapons, training and money to help solve the threat of the Soviets. And yes, Osama bin Laden was one of these men. After the Soviets limped back home, more needed aid to Afghanistan was denied, setting the stage for the murderous Taliban. Continued...
I was going to get on you about the headline but I clicked on the link and lo behold that's how they had it spelled.
The future of journalism is the same as the past. LOL.
Childish drivel.
It is not mania to recognize that and remember it. One might as well ask, "When are we going to stop this George Washington mania, or Baraham Lincoln mania?"
The answer is...we're not.
BARF alert needed.................
...or this “JFK” mania.........
Amherst hates America.
Amherst AKA Cambridge West.
Paculi oil capital of the world.
(And these were when I was there in the 80’s)
I think the inappropriate loving of dead people, commonly known as necrophilia, is just plain wrong and weird. There, I said it.
In other news, Obama is parading around as if he is JFK....
Ditto. Can we stop all the FDR and JFK swooning now?
A good many of these sentiments will be sorely challenged just as soon as this snob of child gets out into the world and has to make a living, instead of sucking off of others (whomever they may be).
But, this is certainly a sad commentary on the quality of higher education in the nation, today. Can’t even spell the man’s name...
idiotic drivel
It’s interesting that nobody ever says that they are the next Jimmy Carter or LBJ, or BJC for that matter.......
Interesting how, in the first sentence, he distorts admiration for a man’s character, leadership and ideals into a sexual perversion.
this tells me all I need to know about this writer, I think.
I thought necrophilia was having sex with dead people. does this maroon want to have sex with Reagan?
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