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To: brian1501 who wrote (142819)	2/20/2002 1:06:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577122

More and more I believe he makes these gaffes because he doesn't have a fundamental understanding about what he is talking....On the contrary, starting from his campaign, Bush has shown a very weak understanding of economics. Your icon wasn't exactly an A student. Maybe he wasn't, but he received better grades in school than Mr. Gore and he actually completed an advanced degree! Al only dabbled in a couple of graduate classes, then found other things to do (ie flunked out). How does that change what I said? Reuters. What idiots. The story is totally without credibility. The yen dropped from 132.80 per dollar from 132.55; hardly what I'd call "sending the financial markets wobbling". If you say so.......... Considering the markets fluctuate like that daily, you're clinging pretty hard to a manufactured story. Do you guys just like to fight for the sake of fighting? I posted an article on this thread re Bush's trip to Japan.......one of many that I post. I don't always agree with the premise of these articles but I think they are newsworthy and that's why I post them. Frankly, I could give a rat's ass whether Bush effected the value of the yen or not. What's happening in Japan goes far beyond Bush's ability to make gaffes. Get it thru your head, Reagan was a B grade actor who acted his way thru the White House.....no one in CA was fooled, acting is one of their number one exports. For a B grade actor he has quite a list of accomplishments. Ending the cold war, laying the foundations for the boom of the 90's (Clinton certainly had nothing to do with it). And so on. I don't agree with you that he engineered the end of the Cold War..........if he was the engineer, he would not have pushed so hard for bolstered defense spending and the Star Wars program. Besides, Russia managed to collapse very well on its own. And I disagree that he laid the ground work for the boom in the 90's. We were running healthy deficits right through the Bush administration. I consider the reigning in of those deficits one of the major catalysts for the boom and its unusual length. You and I likely will never agree on the quality of Reagan's presidency. In any case, future historians will have to make that determination, not us. ted