[skeeter]

To inject a little humor, regarding deserved or undeserved ends: Didn't Genesis (the rock band) have a video back in the 80's that showed Ronald Reagan as Rambo, bandolier and all? I'm sure they didn't mean it to be so, but I always thought that to be a positive image!

Yeah, I remember that one - anti-Reagan cliches acted out by a hand puppet to some mediocre tune, including accidentally hitting the button labeled 'nuke' instead of 'nurse'. Har-har.

A few pipsqueek entertainers with undergrad level intellects nipping at the august heels of one of history's great men.

[parsifal]

Call me callous, whatever, but if he is definitely going to go soon, in the next month or so, I hope he hangs on til 9/11. Then, the rememberance day for that, could also be for RR.

[Frank_Discussion]

Now, Now, they may be liberals in most respects, but they were a pretty good rock band. Even good 'ol Phil Collins is pretty good on his own, I just don't agree with his politics and handwringing nature.

That said, I hope I made it clear that I like the idea of "Ronbo". Sort of a heroic thought, IMHO.

[Charles Martel]

Yeah, I remember that one - anti-Reagan cliches acted out by a hand puppet to some mediocre tune, including accidentally hitting the button labeled 'nuke' instead of 'nurse'. Har-har.

I had completely banished that video from my memory, but it's back with a vengeance. Thanks SO much. ;-)

According to a quick websearch, that video featured puppets which evidently appeared in another show on British television and Genesis just borrowed them for the video. The puppets were known as "Spitting Images" - and IIRC, there was a plush version of Phil Collins in that video, too. Truly hideous. Well, even *more* hideous than Collins is in real life.