Friday, June 11, 2004
Junior on Junior
For liberals who've had to endure this week's attempts by the Bush Campaign to wrap Bush Jr in the same cloth as Reagan ...your tonic awaits.
At his father's eulogy this evening, Ron Reagan Jr offers up these words of wisdom...and as Kevin Drum of Washington Monthly describes, " a shot across the bow of the current occupant of the Oval Office"(transcript approximate):
He was a man of unabashed faith, but he didn't make the mistake that some politicians do of wearing his religion on his sleeve. True, after he was shot, he came to believe he had been spared by God in order to do good, but he took this as a responsibility — not a mandate.
Ronald Reagan didn't shove his faith down our throats. He didn't use it to brow beat. He didn't claim Jesus as his "favorite philospher" and didn't appear to look at the world as a set up for the Rapture.
I have a feeling Ron Reagan Jr isn't done rocking W's boat. Drum points out the interview Reagan gave to Salon last year in which Ron utters the now somewhat famous, "My father crapped bigger ones than George Bush".
Fasten your seatbelts. It's gonna be a bumpy campaign.
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At his father's eulogy this evening, Ron Reagan Jr offers up these words of wisdom...and as Kevin Drum of Washington Monthly describes, " a shot across the bow of the current occupant of the Oval Office"(transcript approximate):
He was a man of unabashed faith, but he didn't make the mistake that some politicians do of wearing his religion on his sleeve. True, after he was shot, he came to believe he had been spared by God in order to do good, but he took this as a responsibility — not a mandate.
Ronald Reagan didn't shove his faith down our throats. He didn't use it to brow beat. He didn't claim Jesus as his "favorite philospher" and didn't appear to look at the world as a set up for the Rapture.
I have a feeling Ron Reagan Jr isn't done rocking W's boat. Drum points out the interview Reagan gave to Salon last year in which Ron utters the now somewhat famous, "My father crapped bigger ones than George Bush".
Fasten your seatbelts. It's gonna be a bumpy campaign.
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