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Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:22:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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Sometimes the only way to get perspective is through the passage of time.
You remind me of my utter comtempt with Ronald Reagan when I was in Kollege.
History already is showing that Reagan was brilliant.
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Reagan? Ronald Reagan? Surely you can’t be talking about The Great
Communicator, from whose myriad disastrous policies we had only begun to recover
when 2001 occurred (with all the implications thereof). The only thing keeping
Reagan from being the worst president since Nixon is Bush43.
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Given the events that have transpired during George W. Bush’s tenure, I’d
bet that history will be kind to him as well.
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Given the rampant corruption, favoritism, cronyism, fiscal mismanagement, and
general malfeasance commited by this administration, one wonders how any
rational person can hold Bush in anything other than the deepest contempt. The
firing of the attorneys alone is sufficient to tarnish his presidency forever,
and that’s only the least of the scandals facing him.
I don’t know why people are so quick to try and canonize Bush43 as the heir to
the Reagan legacy, except maybe because his awful and destructive administration
is the logical product of the awful and destructive policies put into motion
during Reagan’s reign.
If you’re looking for a precedent re: the lens of history, you should probably
reflect upon how Nixon’s corrupt administration is regarded; that’s a much
closer analog to the current misadministration.
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Clinton will be remembered as the president between the Bushes.
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Perhaps, but only in the way that the eye of the hurricane is a too-brief
respite from the destruction swirling before and after.
Dave!
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Message is in Reply To:
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| (...) Sometimes the only way to get perspective is through the passage of time. You remind me of my utter comtempt with Ronald Reagan when I was in Kollege. History already is showing that Reagan was brilliant. Given the events that have transpired (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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