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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JeffA who wrote (32245)	6/25/2004 10:18:35 PM
From: SiouxPal	Respond to of 81568

He doesn't, but if your IQ is above 96 you infer he is relating to Bush IMO. Ron Jr. is a sport model. Could take a Senate seat at his pleasure.

To: JeffA who wrote (32245)	6/25/2004 10:24:14 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

"But my father was a man -- that's the difference between him and Bush." Ron Reagan Jr. April, 2003 Salon interview. The following from Larry King Live: cnn.com KING: You said, dad was also a deeply unabashedly religious man, but he never made the mistake of wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage. Were you referring to the president? REAGAN: You know, it's interesting. KING: Everyone thought that. REAGAN: I know. I wasn't watching TV much after I delivered the eulogy for a few days. But after a couple of days I started getting calls from people saying, boy you really stirred something up, didn't you? I thought, well, what? Well, you know, the stuff you said about Bush. I said, I didn't say anything about Bush, why would I mention George W. Bush in my father's eulogy? No, no, no, no, the stuff about the religion. I thought, ha, funny, you then everybody thought I was talking about George W. Bush. And then I heard -- everybody thought I was talking about George -- but people connected with George W. Bush thought I was talking about George W. Bush. And then I began to think, maybe I was, I just didn't know it. KING: Do you think he wears his religion on his sleeve? He certainly refers to it more than your father ever did. REAGAN: Well, you know, there was that answer he gave to the question about, did you talk to your father about going into Iraq? No, I talked to a higher father, you know, the almighty. When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the almighty, God, I get a little worried, frankly. The other guys do that a lot. Osama bin Laden's always talking about Allah, what Allah wants, that he's on his side. I think that's uncomfortable. KING: Do you have thoughts on the war? REAGAN: Sure, I have thoughts on the war. KING: And what do you think? REAGAN: And I think we lied our way into the war. KING: You think it's a mistake? REAGAN: Absolutely, a terrible mistake. Terrible foreign policy error. We didn't have to do it. It was optional. And we were lied to. The American public was lied to about WMD, the connection between Osama bin Laden and Saddam, which is virtually nonexistent except for fleeting contacts. But they're still trying to pull that one off now, Cheney and all are out there flogging that. KING: Can I gather from that, that you will not support this president? REAGAN: No, I won't. KING: Will you support his opponent? REAGAN: I will vote for whoever the viable candidate is who can defeat George W. Bush, yes. KING: So, you might vote for Ralph Nader? REAGAN: If he were a viable candidate I might.

To: JeffA who wrote (32245)	6/25/2004 11:15:29 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

A very "hip" bar had a robotic bartender installed. A patron comes in for a drink and the robot asks, "What's your IQ?" The man replied, "150," so the robot proceeds to make conversation about molecular genetics, and the writings of Jean Paul Sartre. The man listens intently, thinks, "This is amazing," and decides to test the robot. He walks out, turns around, and comes back in for another drink. Again, the robot asks, "What's your IQ?" The man responds, "100." So the robot talks about football, NASCAR, and wrestling. The man thinks to himself, "Wow, this is remarkable." He goes out, comes back and, as before, the robot asked him, "What's your IQ?" The man responds, "50." The robot replies, "So, you gonna vote George W. Bush again?"

To: JeffA who wrote (32245)	6/26/2004 5:56:58 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

Reagan Jr backing Kerry By Rodney Dalton, New York correspondent 26jun04 RON Reagan Jr rejected comparisons between his father and George W. Bush yesterday in an attempt to shield the Reagan legacy during the US election campaign. A long-time critic of the Bush administration, Mr Reagan sharpened his knives in the first interviews he has given since the week of national mourning for his father, who died on June 5 at the age of 93. He said he could never join the Republican party because it "tolerates members who are bigots ... homophobes, racists" and revealed that he would vote for Democrat John Kerry on November 2. "I don't think my father would have gone into Iraq, because it was an unnecessary and optional war," Mr Reagan told CNN in a frank interview. "We still haven't been told by this Government why they were actually doing it, although I'm sure they do have their reasons." Mr Reagan's assessment on Iraq came as the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll showed 55 per cent of Americans do not believe the war has made them safer from terrorism. A similar percentage now believes the war was a mistake, up 13 percentage points from the start of this month. However, the Bush administration's sliding status on Iraq has not catapulted Senator Kerry into the lead over the incumbent. Mr Reagan's campaign to draw distinctions between his father - a hero to Republicans and respected by many Democrats - and Mr Bush is likely to annoy the White House. Elements of his eulogy for his father on June 11 were widely interpreted in Washington as a direct swipe at Mr Bush's regular references to his faith. "Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man," Mr Reagan said in the eulogy. "But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians, wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage." Mr Reagan denied yesterday that he had been referring to Mr Bush, but said he "thought that was all very telling" that people close to the President had made the connection. Asked whether it was hard to be around Mr Bush during gatherings in honour of his father, he said he had "no personal animus towards him". Mr Reagan, whose father died of Alzheimer's disease, maintained his family's attack on the Bush administration's policy on stem-cell research. "This administration is pandering to the most ignorant segment of our society for votes and throwing up road blocks to this sort of research," he said. "It's absolutely shameful." theaustralian.news.com.au