Reagan junior warns Bush: ‘stop hijacking my father’s reputation’

[CHIMO]

He’s a hypocrite. He “plays farm” on his ranch. He cheated to get to the White House. He lied about Iraq, and used national grief from September 11 to his own advantage.
Reagan said: “This administration will use whatever they can – they will try to hijack that legacy, they will pretend that Mr Bush is the reincarnation of my father. I don’t feel terribly happy about that; I certainly don’t remember Bush being at any Thanksgiving dinners.

Ironically, Reagan says he sometimes finds Bush “amusing, when you see pictures of him on his ranch with his little chainsaw as if he actually does any work there”.

“This is an administration that has cheated to get into the White House. It’s not something Americans ever want to think about their government. My sense of these people is that they don’t have any respect for the public at large. They have a revolutionary mindset. I think they feel that anything they can do to prevail – lie, cheat, whatever – is justified by their revolutionary aims.”

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[Raster]

1. Right On Ron!!!

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“The reality of this administration is so ugly that most Americans, even those who are more or less opposed to the administration, really don’t want to come to grips with that.

“This is an administration that has cheated to get into the White House. It’s not something Americans ever want to think about their government. My sense of these people is that they don’t have any respect for the public at large. They have a revolutionary mindset. I think they feel that anything they can do to prevail – lie, cheat, whatever – is justified by their revolutionary aims.”

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The war in Iraq, and the Bush administration’s attitude after September 11, are viewed by Reagan as “terrible”.

“September 11 was a huge opportunity for the Bush administration. When you read accounts of insiders who were close to the top of the administration on September 11, it’s shocking. Within hours of this terrible atrocity they were looking for opportunities to take advantage of it. They turned it into a situation where they could attack Saddam, who had nothing to do with September 11. This wasn’t a wake-up call for them.”

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. I didn't like President Reagan

but compared to Bush, Reagan was a saint. And Ron tells it like it is.

[Malva Zebrina]

3. well Ron, I admire your passion and honesty but actually Bush did go

to a Thanksgiving dinner, remember? He and Condi dressed up as an "ordinary couple", complete with baseball caps and snuck out, defeating all the security guards and blithly, together, happy in their deceit, boarded AFI to go to Bagdahd to celebrate Thanksgiving with the troops-is it not interesting that he chose Condi as his "couple" instead of Laura?

-only one thing--the Bagdhad "troops" were those already screened by some SS people who were dressed in combat fatigues, and who apparently went there before our great
AWOL president and his let's pretend wife or girlfriend, to be supporters of Bush-- others were turned away on Thanksgiving, denied a turkey dinner and forced to eat MRI
s somewhere else.

He landed in the middle of the night, and hustled himself right away into the secured area. Then, he snatched up the display fake turkey and pranced around the troops, surrounded, not by the troops, but by his SS security guards who were dressed in combat fatigues, and strutted around the place carrying this silver tray with the fake turkey on it, all for the photo op and not for any distribution to the troops at all. It was just another staged event from this piss poor actor.

After that staged photo op, he left abruptly. There was an urban legend type of a press release that had some other commercial British airline stating that it actually saw AFI as it passed by. This was thoroughly debunked. But it sounded like a good urban legend type of lie, so it was pushed.

While I understand your defense of your father, I also did not agree with many , manhy of his policies or decision. Nevertheless, I am pleased to see that you have the courage to ppoint out the total sham of this little boy . this spoiled and ignorant play actor, called George Bush.

This is our "let's pretend" president Ron.

[Sporadicus]

4. Kudos to Ron Reagan

I hope his comments serve to convince "real" republicans - not neocon apologists - that their interests are better served by failing to vote for * this time around. After all, John Kerry's economic policies will more likely be in line with their advocacy for fiscal responsibility - not to mention their disdain for empire-building and military adventurism.