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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (138284)	4/13/2001 11:18:35 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) of 769667

Reagan was a charismatic leader of the right who could charm the skirts off a nun. Many of those behind him though were crass exploiters. The same kind of greed-is-good types going after our environment now fully exploited the S+L debacle thanks to Reagan signing the Garnes-St Germaine bill (which he probably didn't even understand, being an actor with no education gradually succombing to Alzheimers). You call him insightful but he was not vigilant. And he ignored the S+L problem completely, telling aides he didn't want to hear about it. Yes the military build-up might have tipped the Soviets out of business but Reagan didn't engineer anything he just made the speeches. Yes he gave us a feeling that we had balls again after the suspicious Iran Hostage situation (perhaps rightwing CIA engineered, aka "the October Surprise) and for that we thanked him. But in other ways he simply wasn't on the ball. It was scary when a friend of mine who's father is a billionaire oil-man told me that one year after RR was out of office they had lunch with him in Bev Hills and after lunch he couldn't even remember they had ever met. They were old friends too. So who was really running the show those last few years? And what if there had been a war? RR was more a symbol for the right than anything. He looked good and had great charisma. He was able to push unpoipular things past the middle-class even at their expense. He was able to finesse his way through almost anything. But signing the S+L bill alone without understanding why or what might happen was a 600 billion mistake we are still paying for, so never forget that sometimes behind the smiling leader are the real engineers with greed on their minds and they can cost us all dearly. That's politics. But again, soft money out, more integrity in. With both parties. So support it strongly. And try to look past the facades and see the substance, though I know it's hard. Clinton was a teflon President too, which is why the right-wing hated and envied him so much. When they couldn't defeat him they went after his sex life and even his wife. We spent 100 million bucks to find out Monica gave him a BJ. Talk about smaller government.

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