Great article comparing Shrub & Reagan

[napi21]

Here's a great article regarding how the Pubs are trying to shape Reagans history and comparing him and the Shrub.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/dubya_youre_no_gipper.php

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Still, Reagan remained “a closet tolerant,” in the words of the journalist Rick Hertzberg, a former speechwriter for Jimmy Carter. As governor, he signed a liberal abortion rights law and later opposed a referendum to prevent gays and lesbians from teaching in California’s public schools.

Bush, however, has lived and learned much less. While his admirers present Bush as a man of wisdom and resolve, one wonders where these characteristics came from, since he lacks both learning and life experience. He drifted until the age of 40, then capitalized on his connections to acquire a baseball team, a governorship, the presidency and an air of unearned certitude. He admits that his great obstacle was his own irresponsible behavior as a younger man—hardly the equivalent of Lincoln’s poverty, Roosevelt’s polio or Kennedy’s PT-109.

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1. Take a look at the cartoon from another thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1747844

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2. Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall.....Bush: Mr Sharon, Build Up This Wall

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3. Reagan blasts Bush

"My father crapped bigger ones than George Bush," says the former president's son, in a flame-throwing conversation about the war and the Bush administration's efforts to lay claim to the Reagan legacy.

What's his (Bush's) accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?"

Reagan says his mother shares his "distrust of some of these people. She gets that they're trouble in all kinds of ways. She doesn't like their religious fervor, their aggression."

Dick Cheney is to the right of Genghis Khan, he wants to drill in your backyard, he wants to deny black people their rights --it was all there in his voting record for us to see. What were we, rubes?"

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/04/14/ron_reagan/print.html