Ronald Reagan on Dubya

[liberaldemocrat7]

I just saw this, so if you have seen it, sorry about that. Even the vile Reagan didn't like W.


Ronald Reagan on Dubya

'A moment I've been dreading. George brought his
ne're-do-well son around this morning and
asked me to find the kid a job. Not the
political one who lives in Florida. The one who
hangs around here all the time looking shiftless.
This so-called kid is already almost 40
and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call
Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if
they'll hire him as a contributing editor or
something. That looks like easy work.'

From the just published REAGAN DIARIES. The
entry is dated May 17,
1986.

[saracat]

1. This was a "satire".

[DS1]

2. Nice if it were true, but it's not

the context has been stripped, and these are the author's thoughts, not Reagan's

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. That's really from Reagan's diary?

Any link?

[UTUSN]

4. While the quote is being verified or debunked, here's a true glimpse of Shrub:

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3994.htm

.... In a column posted yesterday on Salon.com, Joe Conason writes: "Preferring to avoid public scrutiny for obvious reasons, executives at the Carlyle Group usually say nothing about their firm's connections with the Bush dynasty. But last April 23, Carlyle managing director David Rubenstein spoke quite frankly about the comfy sinecure he provided to George W. Bush more than a decade ago -- and how useless Bush turned out to be. Whether he knew it or not, Rubenstein's remarks to the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association were recorded."

Rubenstein said, "We put (Bush) on the board and (he) spent three years. Came to all the meetings. Told a lot of jokes. Not that many clean ones. And after a while I kind of said to him, after about three years - you know, I'm not sure this is really for you. Maybe you should do something else. Because I don't think you're adding that much value to the board. You don't know that much about the company.

Rubenstein continued: "He said, 'Well, I think I'm getting out of this business anyway. And I don't really like it that much. So I'm probably going to resign from the board.' And I said, thanks - didn't think I'd ever see him again. His name is George W. Bush. He became President of the United States. So you know if you said to me, name 25 million people who would maybe be President of the United States, he wouldn't have been in that category. So you never know. Anyway, I haven't been invited to the White House for any things." ....

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[K8-EEE]

5. Debunked by Snopes

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/kinsley.asp