Text 4687, 70 rader
Skriven 2004-11-08 18:09:05 av Ed Connell (1:379/1.6)
   Kommentar till text 4664 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: Another whacko
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Hey, FRANK.

 FS>> They depicted Ronald Reagan as someone who was not only extremely
 FS>> stupid but couldn't even stay awake at Cabinet meetings.  The
 FS>> fact that it was *he* who hammered the final nail in the Soviet's
 FS>> coffin didn't change their attitudes.

 EC>> I loved Peggy Noonan's story about that.  Reagan "sleeping" while his
 EC>> underlings fight it out.  Then he sets the course.

 FS> I hadn't heard that, but it certainly makes sense.  Many years
 FS> ago there was a clever Saturday Night Live skit depicting a
 FS> Reagan cabinet meeting.  Obviously it was intended to be *funny*
 FS> (which it *was*).  In this skit Reagan is shown conducting a
 FS> cabinet meeting in the Oval Office.  He's giving crisp orders
 FS> right and left to the cabinet officials.  A secretary enters
 FS> telling him his appointment with a Girl Scout is due, that the
 FS> Girl Scout is in the reception room.  Reagan curses and tells his
 FS> cabinet officers to leave *Right Now*!  They leave quickly out
 FS> a side door.

 FS> The Girl Scout enters:  Reagan puts on a silly grin and starts
 FS> talking like a semi-mental case.  He poses for a photograph with
 FS> the Girl Scout then scoots her out of the room -- all the while
 FS> with a weak, silly smile on his fact.

 FS> She leaves.  Reagan goes to another door and tells his cabinet
 FS> officers to get back in here!  They scurry in.  He *again* starts
 FS> giving them crisp, complex orders regarding various problems.
 FS> The phone rings.  Reagan answers it -- starts talking rapidly
 FS> in Arabic ... and so on.

 FS> It was a very funny skit.  What was *really* funny is that it
 FS> probably was closer to the *actual* Reagan than the contrast ..d.

Heh heh heh

In one of Peggy's early books about life in the Regan administration, she 
tells about attending a cabinet meeting.  Reagan put his head down while his 
underlings fought it out.  He was seemingly asleep.  And then he looked over 
at Peggy and gave her a big wink. <g>

 FS>> Dan Quayle who is an intelligent man they always portrayed as an
 FS>> idiot ... largely because he couldn't spell "potato" ... or is it
 FS>> "potatoe"?  I'm not really sure.  They *never* let up on him
 FS>> forget the fact that a president needn't be a spelling champion.

 EC>> But Dan was dead right about the message of Murphy Brown.

 FS> Absolutely!  The "news"media didn't seem to notice, though ...

Oh, they were horrified by Dan's lack of tolerance. <g>

 FS>> Currently, of course, it's the "George W. Bush is a hopeless
 FS>> bungler." ... [sigh] ... it doesn't matter *what* he does, he's
 FS>> stuck with that picture in the eyes of the "news"media ...

 EC>> Of course GWB was just elected by the majority of American voters to
 EC>> be the  most powerful man in the world. <g>

 FS> I guess even a hopeless, bungling simpleton can be right
 FS> *occasionally* -- like the stopped clock ...

And his timing is just right.  Every time there is an election year, the 
Democrats get further behind.

Just lucky, I guess. <g> 

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