[geeks] RIP, Ronald Reagan

[Phil Stracchino]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 01:48:55PM -0500, doctor obnox son of a bitch wrote:
>  RR pioneered the tactic of acting too dumb and amiable to seem evil.


Personally, I'm inclined to argue the rot set in with Lincoln.  He set
the government on the course of massive expansion of centralized Federal
power, took the country to civil war over the right to secede from the
Union, and freed the slaves in the Southern states (but not the North)
not because it was the right thing to do, but as a politically-expedient
economic-warfare move against the South.

Of course, one could also argue that it was his predecessors who pushed
the South to the *point* of secession.


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