I think that all of what you quote Morris as saying in his official biography of Reagan is probably true, and am unsurprised by it, never having heard anyone say that Reagan wasn't a nice guy. (It is usually indicated that his niceness was of a particular, and rather odd, detached, kind. In a radio interview I heard in the car, for example, Morris replied to the question "Do you think President Reagan cared about the poor and unfortunate in this country?", "No.") I won't read the book, but I'll pick up the Newsweek and see what else Morris says about Ronald Reagan.
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It is astonishing to me that a person like you, Neocon, can admire a man who was patently a puppet, and who didn't know the difference between the life he had lived and the lives he had pretended on the movie screen he had lived; or simply, in his gaga way, those he had imagined himself living-- presumably because doing so made him feel a certain pleasant way. Neocon, this is not normal ideation; the man was deranged.
You liked this puppet, though, and approved of how the puppeteers pulled its strings. Is all.
Those puppeteers were clever men, indeed, and they knew how to manage this simple fellow so that he would believe that the policies they favored were the very ones necessary to the implementation of the simple precepts he comprehended; or at that he least felt good mouthing. And so that even clever fellows like you would buy the package, in spite of your having observed that there had to be something wrong with the brain of the President of the United States.
Really, when you think about it, the whole thing is quite horrifying. Our president was nutso. |
