While you and your fellow Reagan-admirers are festooning his colorized image, please try to figure out how to drape this strand attractively around his shoulders:
Edmund Morris on Reagan's ecological understanding of the real world, from Newsweek excerpts:
"The world that rotates inside his cerebellum is, if not beautiful, encouragingly rich and self-renewing. It is washed by seas whose natural "ozone" produces a healthful brown smog over coastal highways, and rinsed by rivers that purify themselves whenever they flow over gravel. Its rocks suppurate with so much untapped oil that Alaska "alone" has more petroleum reserves than Saudi Arabia. Americans should not feel guilty about pumping this bounty into their private cars; the automobile has "exactly the same" fuel-efficiency rating as the bus.
Reagan's world is not entirely without environmental problems. It glows with the 'radioactivity' of coal burners (much more dangerous than nuclear plants), and is plagued by 'deadly diseases spread by insects, because pesticides such as DDT have been prematurely outlawed.' Acid rain, caused by an excess of trees... "
Eeewww, I just got tired of typing. I do appreciate, though, as giggle-evoking evidence (I am a giggler) of my point that Ronald Reagan was a dimwit, and so someone else was clearly running the country (the "programmers," Michael -- Stepford presidents have to be run by somebody, don't they?), the following notes on the guy's views:
"'Almost all' [of world leaders], with the exception of Margaret Thatcher, are older than himself; China seems determined to reincorporate with Taiwan, although Reagan's personal preference would be to recognize them both; similarly North and South Vietnam should never have been permitted to join, having been 'separate nations for centuries.'..."
Do you think, as Neocon does, I believe, that these items are instances of "misspeaking"?
Oh, Michael. So much evidence, so little time to type.... |
