A Truly Sad Day

[Thomas]

Just for a fair and balanced discussion: I remember the Reagan years too: I remember his sense of humor; I remember his sense of the absurd; I remember he made people feel good about America; I also remember double-digit inflation due to so-called tax reform and massive deficit spending; I remember some Marines in Lebanon getting killed by terrorists and the U.S. retreating afterwards; I remember Iran-Contra and bags of money (and cakes) being delivered; I also remember the once head of a union (well, Actor's Equity is more like a country club union) busting up a labor union; I remember when the Social Security draw at retirement was untaxed (the Reagan tax reform started that new tax).

My point: there are many sides to a person and even more sides to a president.

Also, the notion that any U.S. Presdient took down the Soviet Union is nonsense. Even our own stupid intelligence orgs. didn't know how bad it was inside the rotting red state. It had little to do with us, and all to do with a bad system that went broke (like we were) trying to keep up military and nukes.

Sorry--couldn't resist. Like Roberto, I am a-political. My political thinking is to follow the logical as opposed to the ideological. When you do that you realize that a politician is mainly an actor with votes.

[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 06-07-2004).]