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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (36217)7/24/2008 10:33:38 AM
From: Justin C  Read Replies (2) of 224705
 
Ronald Reagan was very popular but wasn't an idol in any sense of the word as defined at dictionary.com ...

i·dol – noun

1. an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed.

2. Bible. a. an image of a deity other than God. b. the deity itself.

3. any person or thing regarded with blind admiration, adoration, or devotion: Madame Curie had been her childhood idol.

4. a mere image or semblance of something, visible but without substance, as a phantom.

5. a figment of the mind; fantasy.

6. a false conception or notion; fallacy.

Reagan was an idol for the American public
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