If Speaker Pelosi is going to quote Reagan she might as well quote this

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated
what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than
oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and
peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be
city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to
get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still."

and this:


"I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears."

[wryter2000]

1. Yeah

At least he knew how to pretend to be a rational, caring human being.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. An interesting story

We live in Los Angeles and my girlfriend's brother, wife, and two children from the Philippines visited us. We went to the Los Angeles Museum Of Natural History in Los Angeles and the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. I thought the latter would be a dreadful experience. To my surprise it wasn't. It was fun. There was no liberal or Democratic punching. At the very end there is a film of Reagan speaking and the quote about appealing to people's hopes and not fears is the last impression you're left with.

[wryter2000]

3. I'm sure you're right

But his actions didn't fit with his persona. In fact, he made right-wing-ism palatable. IMHO, he began the downward slide that got us where we are today.

[C_U_L8R]

4. The GOP wants a white shining city.

The rest of us are supposed to leave or die or something.