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To: tejek who wrote (190294)6/11/2004 12:35:10 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573950
 
They are immitating the Kennedy funeral.
It is important to the neocon distraction that Reagan be thought of as a sucess and important.

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But no one has more strenuously tried to emulate the 40th president in both style and substance than Bush. Reagan's body was barely cold when Ed Gillespie, the Republican chairman, said: "The parallels are there. I don't know how you miss them." Yes, the parallels are there - hammered in by Bush's packagers so we can never miss them. But Karl Rove and company may have overplayed their hand. The orgiastic celebration of Reagan's presidency over the past week, an upbeat Hollywood epic that has glided past Iran-contra, Bitburg cemetery and the retreat from Lebanon with impressive ease, has brought into clear focus the size of the gap between the two. To say that difference in stature is merely a function of an actor's practiced skill at performance is both to understate the character of Ronald Reagan and to impugn the art of acting.

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The problem is not merely that Bush lacks Reagan's lilting vocal delivery. As any professional actor can tell you, no performance, however sonorous, can be credible if it doesn't contain at least a kernel of emotional truth.
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To: tejek who wrote (190294)6/11/2004 1:53:14 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1573950
 
Ted, I remember that when Nixon died, the tributes and the memorials were a LOT more muted than they are now for Reagan. That might be one reason why you don't remember his passing.

Fortunately for the memory of Nixon, time helped heal the wounds that resulted from Watergate. Thus when he passed away, the tribute to Nixon was respectful, fair, and fitting. At least that was the way I remembered it.

Tenchusatsu


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