I don't think it was an aide he expressed it to - it was the bimbo du jour next to him in bed as they were having their cigar and cigarette after some great sex.
I watched the funeral service today away from the computer and then went to see Dad at the nursing home. In the smoke room, I had to listen to a couple aids complain about the cost of flying Reagan's "dead a$$" from California to DC and back again and how he never did nothing for the country. There's only a couple I worked with here that shared my views and most times I was by myself surrounded by Bush and Reagan haters.
This is when I get a little mad at myself that I don't start arguing with them. But I'm not big on confrontation and especially when I'm outnumbered. I can articulate fairly well on forums like this but in person, I'm a bumbling idiot.
I wanted to say to them, "Oh I understand how you feel; I'll feel the same when Bubba's body is cold and dead" but I just am unable to get the words out of my throat. Makes me think that I am a coward.
President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush pay their respects at the casket containing the body of former President Ronald Reagan as he lies in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, June 10, 2004. Reagan, the nation's 40th president, will lie in state in the Capitol until his formal state funeral at Washington's National Cathedral on June 11. (William Philpott/Reuters)
Not a coward. Sometimes it's important to know when to walk away. Sometimes it's just better to walk away. You can show people with cold hard facts, pictures, testimony and video tape and they will still argue because they have been brain-washed.
Scripture puts it this way: "Cast not your pearls before swine." Yes, the Bible gives us the understanding that there are people who are "swine" and tells us what how to deal with them.