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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (9032)	3/1/1998 2:43:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

Duncan, I have watched all of the PBS documentary now, and I do have a somewhat altered opinion of Reagan. My own memories of him are of protesting against him at the University of California, and marching on the State Capital Building in Sacramento, but obviously in the fullness of time I no longer view him simply as an adversary. I am a little more complicated than I was in college, and he is a little more complicated than I projected him to be. I was particularly impressed that he seemed to have more integrity than the current president. At the same time, I am not sure I believe in the principles of simplicity of thought, magical thinking and nostalgia as good guiding methods of presidential governance. I think Reagan got extremely lucky that the Communist countries were collapsing internally, and I think everyone on earth is lucky that with that huge build-up of arms, the button was not pushed at some point. I am a real fan of Gorbachev, and it was wonderful to see him again. I do believe it showed strength of character for Reagan to not sign a treaty with him, simply to sign one. However, I think a president who is guided by a movie from, when was it, 1936 about star wars, and continues unflinchingly to pursue that as a goal is again fortunate that the madness stopped before we bled our economy dry or there was a final conflagration. I think we are becoming nostalgic for Reagan because maybe we are tired of hearing a lawyerly response to every question asked of the White House. And even the eighties seem like simpler times now that we are approaching the millennium. And Reagan was a really likeable guy who genuinely loved America and wanted to serve his country. I wonder how the historians will view the Clinton presidency. We are still much too close to it to see it clearly. Oh, my reference to the little kissing editorial comment actually was on Face the Nation, not Meet the Press. Sorry. Did you see it?