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First let me congratulate Obama on the race issue.  He started it and ended it with much more class than Hilary, so he won that episode.

Also in the debate Hillary refused to say her two opponents were ready to be president.  Since this was the beginning of the debate and everybody was playing nice, would it have hurt her to say, “we are all ready to be president, it is just a matter of who is the better candidate and the people will decide.”  Now how hard could that have been, rather than look like an uptight mean bitch.

But that is not my issue, my issue is the garbage that Mr. Obama spewed today.  The more he comes into focus the less attractive he looks and I hope other people are picking up on it.  OK, enough teasing, I know you are wondering what I am referring to, Ok, here it is, Mr. Obama today referred to St. Ronnie as a candidate for change and hope. 

Now, there are many days I do not think of St. Ronnie as the famous Florida Turnpike is now the Ronald Reagan Turnpike.  I watch the news, and the airport I still call Washington National is The Ronald Reagan Washington Airport.  I guess he posthumously bought half the country, good for him. I cringe every time I hear it or see the signs, but that is life right?

I guess if Mr. Obama thought of the person that gave GWB the script for fooling the majority of the electorate, smile, don’t say anything and divide the country is right.

It is really very hard to reconcile Mr. Obama’s comments today with the image of Railroad Reagan. After all I guess because he is right.  Not for me, but for a lot of people RR was an optimist, gave people hope (false as it was), and was the candidate of change.  Mr. Obama’s campaign today is based almost on the same themes and that is fine, but then when you invoke St. Ronnie, then it gets scary.

For those of you that do not remember the St. Ronnie administration, or need a refresher course, lets remember some of those good times:

·         Black welfare queens were running rampant in the country in Cadillacs .  Ronnie put a stop to that.  The white ones are still probably running around in Escalades today.

·         With the magic of voodoo economics we went from being the world’s leading lender nation to the world’s leading debtor nation.  A very proud achievement indeed.

·         We supported an Apartheid government in South Africa and branded Nelson Mandela a terrorist.

·         We killed thousands of people in El Salvador, including American missionaries in the name of democracy.

·         We attempted to overthrow a democratically elected government in Nicaragua despite the fact that it was against the Boland Amendment thus illegal to do so.

·         We imported cocaine and heroin in CIA planes into Mena, Arkansas, (This is the scandal the right wing later tried to get Bubba with because he was governor at the time), to pollute our cities, in particular our inner cities with drugs to support the band of murderers we were financing in Honduras and Costa Rica to overthrow the Nicaraguan Government.

·         Against all laws of war we mined Nicaraguan harbors.  The Nicaraguan government took the case to The Hague and The International Court of Justice agreed with them.  This marked the first time the US was named a war criminal in our history.

·         Through Israel we sold weapons, including biological agents, to Iran, our sworn enemy, to get our hostages released in Lebanon and get more money for the Contras.

·         We armed Saddam Hussein with every weapon possible including all sorts of biological warfare that he then used on the Kurds, one of the reasons we were given for being in Iraq today.

·         We supported a right wing fanatic Christian Evangelist General Oscar Rios Mont in Guatemala as he massacred thousands of indigenous citizens.

·         We armed the mujahedin against the big bad USSR and gave them the most advanced handheld weapons in our arsenal to drive the Russians out of Afghanistan.  The same weapons they used to shoot Russian helicopters out of the sky, they are using now to kill our troops.

·         And who was RR’s poster boy mujahedin, none other than the very popular Osama Bin Laden.

·         The death of 243 Marines in their sleep in Beirut in an ill conceived exercise that still makes no sense today.  But to forget about that we quickly rescued American medical students from Grenada were they were threatened by too much rum, sun and two drunken Cubans.  If you do not remember, the movie “Hamburger Hill” will give you the proper right perspective.

·         AIDS, the disease that only affected gays and our ever very compassionate leader refused to fund research.  Because they deserved a horrible death.  This man was all heart, no brains, but lots of black heart. 

This is just off the top of my mind, the more I write the more that come up.  i.e. Ed Meese, the first openly partisan Attorney General of my lifetime.

But let me thank and pray to God for the one thing RR did do.  He brought down the Iron Wall, all by himself.  I remember Nancy offering him tea and him saying, “ not now Nancy, I am tearing down this wall.”  Of course 50 years of cold war, overspending the Soviet Union ten to one in armaments and Mikhail Gorbachev had nothing to do with it.

Good job Ronnie, you managed to skirt our laws, bypass our constitution, and as I remember make it almost impossible to speak out with the vitriol in the air.  GWB just improved on your tactics.

Mr. Reagan, really showed the world the best in us.  Open unapologetic racism, hate for all people on the fringes of our society, and disdain for the world in general except Maggie Iron horse, Begin the insufferable and mommy. But Mr. Obama finds this man inspirational in some sense.  In which sense?  How?  Maybe he did not mean to offend anybody and as one pundit said today, RR is very popular in California whose primary is Feb. 5^th, Super Tuesday.  I honestly do not care how he meant it.  Any Democratic candidate should be ashamed to bring up his name.  A self described progressive should hold his head in shame.  Really think about it before you vote for this buffoon.

See there’s much more.  Most corrupt administration before GWB.  If you keep on thinking the sandals never end.