Anyone Watching Today's Myriad Replays of Reagan's Speeches?

[stopbush]

As much as I detested him and his speeches at the time...they've worn even less well in hindsight. The pollyannish, aw-shucks nature of his *superb* acting skills; the laughable, feigned righteous indignation - all coupled with the bald-faced lying. It was one thing to hear this crap at the time. It's quite another to hear the lies with the perspective of history now that certain unflattering-to-the-pretend-moralist-in-chief facts have been exposed, facts that were pretty much buried during Reagan's *Reign of Error*. To me, these speeches ring as hollow now as will shrub's when he passes on. Can you imagine a tribute to shrub where they play his *yellow cake* speech over and over again? Well, that's the effect Reagan replays are having on me.

It's easy to see how the disco-crazed America of the 1980s fell for this clown and his vacuous morality, but I can't believe that today's America, the America enmeshed in another illegal Republican war, stuck in the morass of another shitty Republican economy, and tempered by the horrors of 9/11 can possibly draw solace from St Ronnie's simplistic mendacities.

Then again, what was it that Mencken said about over-estimating the American people?

[madmax]

1. Nope

I watched Bob Roberts with Tim Robbins and Gore Vidal and Monster with Charlize Therzon.

[WindRavenX]

2. No

I couldn't last 5 minutes. There is nothing special about his speeches except for the ability to completely brain wash everyone who hears..
I honestly do not get why people think he is the "great communicator". Cliche, simplistic speeches.

[Indiana_Dem]

5. In college I had to endure listening to his speeches.

In my speech class, the book we had to use included Reagan's speeches and we had to read them. It made me sick after all I lived through during that era. I never felt he was the great speech giver like everyone said he was...

[neuvocat]

3. Nope.

Those "speeches" were enough to make anyone gag. He was peddling death with a heaving, sopping layer of kitsch. They were extremely vague and detatched from what was going on in the world: millions dead and dying and he wants you to think about the good old days when you could just watch parades and salute the men and women in uniform.

:puke:

[Sannum]

4. Nope....

I rented some DVD's...I cannot stand a two week eulogy of anyone.

[Cronus Protagonist]

6. There is one statement he mad that I think is important to bring up

Reagan's caption is an actual quote, and apparently, the young chimpster was thinking of other things at that critical moment in his development...

http://bushspeaks.com/home.asp?did=90

[Piperay]

7. Puke NO

I refuse to watch any crap involving his 'legacy', my stomach is not that strong. :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Jim Warren]

8. psst

under-estimating

[fujiyama]

9. Nope

I watched Apocalypse Now.