Reagan Conveniently Dies for the Bush re-election campaign
Now, I hate to be the wet blanket at America's patriotic wake celebrating the "hero" Ronald Reagan, but here are somethings you might have forgotten about Ronald Reagan: $640 Pentagon toilet seats; ketchup as a vegetable; trees cause pollution; union busting; firing striking air traffic controllers; Iran-Contra; selling arms to terrorist nations; trading arms for hostages; retreating from terrorists in Beirut; lying to Congress; financing an illegal war in Nicaragua; visiting Bitburg cemetery; A cozy relationship with Saddam Hussein; shredding documents; Ed Meese; Fawn Hall, Oliver North; James Watt; apartheid apologia; the saving and loan scandal; voodoo economics; record budget deficits; double-digit unemployment; farm bankruptcies; trade deficits; astrologers in the White House; Star Wars; and influence peddling. Also, here are some great Reagan quotes from the past. Read them and weep:
"If there has to be a bloodbath, then let's get it over with."
- RR, on what to do about student protests at UC Berkeley. Quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 1969.
"A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."
- RR, in testimony to the Tower Commission, March 1987 [2]
"Facts are stupid things."
- RR
"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."
- RR
O.K.,so this is all common knowledge, so why the glossing over of history with crap like Katie Couric getting all misty eyed on the Today show about what a great president Reagan was and Gov. Arnold declaring Reagan was a great American hero? I'll tell what it's all about: APPROVAL RATINGS!
Somehow Bush has managed to get Reagan to die in a most timely manner in order to deflect any real attention on any real topic having to do with the rest of us Americans who are still Alive! So what about this shit:
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings last night introduced the Universal National Service Act of 2003, a bill to reinstate the military draft and mandate either military or civilian service for all Americans, aged 18-26. The Hollings legislation is the Senate companion to a bill recently introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.).
Specifically, the bill mandates a national service obligation for every U.S. citizen and permanent resident, aged 18-26. To that end, the legislation authorizes the President to establish both the number of people to be selected for military service and the means of selection. Additionally, the measure requires those not selected specifically for military service to perform their national service obligation in a civilian capacity for at least two years. Under the bill, deferments for education will be permitted only through high school graduation.
And these are the goddamned DEMOCRATS FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! And notice, all you gung ho fuckers out there who support Bush's personal agenda, I mean war on terrorism, the bill says ALL AMERICANS. That includes you all you prissy ass bitches in sororities
who don't think about, well hell, you just don't think period. And know college deferment either! Heil Hitler motherfucker! In the mean time Bush hopes all you jackasses will ignore all this and vote with your heart! Bush doesn't want the draft, but Kerry will! Watch that fucker! Watch him very closely. He's a creep and he looks just like Herman Munster except that Herman Munster had a personality!
"If there has to be a bloodbath, then let's get it over with."
- RR, on what to do about student protests at UC Berkeley. Quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 1969.
"A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."
- RR, in testimony to the Tower Commission, March 1987 [2]
"Facts are stupid things."
- RR
"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."
- RR
O.K.,so this is all common knowledge, so why the glossing over of history with crap like Katie Couric getting all misty eyed on the Today show about what a great president Reagan was and Gov. Arnold declaring Reagan was a great American hero? I'll tell what it's all about: APPROVAL RATINGS!
Somehow Bush has managed to get Reagan to die in a most timely manner in order to deflect any real attention on any real topic having to do with the rest of us Americans who are still Alive! So what about this shit:
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings last night introduced the Universal National Service Act of 2003, a bill to reinstate the military draft and mandate either military or civilian service for all Americans, aged 18-26. The Hollings legislation is the Senate companion to a bill recently introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.).
Specifically, the bill mandates a national service obligation for every U.S. citizen and permanent resident, aged 18-26. To that end, the legislation authorizes the President to establish both the number of people to be selected for military service and the means of selection. Additionally, the measure requires those not selected specifically for military service to perform their national service obligation in a civilian capacity for at least two years. Under the bill, deferments for education will be permitted only through high school graduation.
And these are the goddamned DEMOCRATS FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! And notice, all you gung ho fuckers out there who support Bush's personal agenda, I mean war on terrorism, the bill says ALL AMERICANS. That includes you all you prissy ass bitches in sororities
who don't think about, well hell, you just don't think period. And know college deferment either! Heil Hitler motherfucker! In the mean time Bush hopes all you jackasses will ignore all this and vote with your heart! Bush doesn't want the draft, but Kerry will! Watch that fucker! Watch him very closely. He's a creep and he looks just like Herman Munster except that Herman Munster had a personality!
posted by Brian King at Thursday, June 10, 2004
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