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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 11:32 AM
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What was that about Reagan?
http://consortiumblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/democrats-praise-reagan-game.html
The Democrats-Praise-Reagan Game

By Robert Parry
January 23, 2008

As a journalist who investigated Reagan-era scandals – from secret arms deals with Iran and Iraq to drug traffickers protected by the covert wars in Nicaragua and Afghanistan – I always recoiled when Democrats prostrated themselves in praise of Ronald Reagan.

Beyond the pandering component, there was the annoying assumption that the rest of us were too stupid to see what they were up to, as they tried to sound “bipartisan” or buy a measure of protection from Republican attacks.

Now, a recurrence of this “Democrats-praise-Reagan" game has intruded on the 2008 presidential campaign as both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have had to explain seemingly favorable comments about President Reagan.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 12:02 PM
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1. How could ANY Dems praise Ronnie-fucking-Raygun and still
call themselves Dems?!

I hated that fucker almost as much as I hate Dubya!

How quickly they forget...
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