Who would’ve thunk it? I just read something Salon has pulled from their archive—an interview with Ron Reagan, son of the recently deceased Ronald Reagan. He’s got a lovely sharp tongue! Read the article for yourself and see what you think. My favorite comment, besides the Jack Palance paraphrasal, is that the George W. Bush era is a “regency, not a presidency”. Ron was quite prescient about what was going to happen in Iraq in the occupation phase too. I remember thinking similar things during a conversation with a certain uncle last spring—basically that waging war on Iraq/Saddam Hussein was almost guaranteed to be much more complicated than the adminstration (and knee-jerk hardliners) realized. (On behalf of those who have died and been injured over there, I am most disappointed that I turned out to be right about that.)
Posted by elizabeth at June 14, 2004 09:39 PMI agree that Ron sounds a lot better here than he usually does when he appears on the talk programs.
The most striking similarity between Ronald Reagan and Bush 43 is their complete emptyheadedness (at least at the end of his presidency in the case of Reagan, seen most tellingly in his testimony in the Iran-Contra investigation), which Bush 43 has managed somehow to achieve without the benefit of Alzheimer's.
Posted by: Daddy on June 15, 2004 05:10 AMPlease excuse my first sentence above. I was thinking about Michael Reagan, Ronald's other son, not Ron, Jr. I agree with your assessment of Ron, Jr.
(BTW, it seems to me that the Jack Palance paraphrasal should be something like: My father can crap better _ideas_ than Bush.)
Posted by: Daddy on June 15, 2004 05:25 AM