JMS, Shame on you (was Re: ATTN: JMS: Re: Off-topic from jms

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From: Marvin Gersho <mgersho at home.com>
Date: 22 Feb 2000 17:56:01 -0700
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I am all for freedom of speech.  However, joking about Reagan becoming
a vegtable does seem cruel.  You have a first amendment right to say
cruel things, but it seems so unnecessary.  I think that Clinton is the
most corrupt and self-serving president of the twentieth century.  Yet I
would never wish Alzhiemer's on him.

Why does it seem like liberals usually think that conservatives are evil
while convervatives tend to think that liberals are misguided?

JMS,  I can understand that your political views are very different from
Reagan's views.  However, could you consider the possibility that his
views were heartfelt, and that he did what he thought was best for the
country?

I have great respect for the intensions of Jimmy Carter and Ronald
Reagan.  They both wanted what they thought was best for the country.  I
just think that one of them was a great deal more effective than the
other.

Marvin Gersho



Jms at B5 wrote:
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> >Needlessly cruel like violating the democratic process, maybe. Pity
> >that Hinckley fellow couldn't get closer. Oh well, at least the crook
> >will suffer longer this way. However bad Reagonomics may have been,
> >it's nothing on October Surprise and Iran/Contra. As far as JMS, the
> >only thing I can say is that Nixon is going to have company
> 
> You know, it's funny that we all like to say we support freedom of speech and
> differing opinions until someone actually *uses* same, at which point one is
> pilloried for saying such things (though on the other hand it's enlivened the
> conversation a bit).
> 
> I'm sorry, but I can have no soft spot in my heart for Reagan.  He's been a
> quisling ever since he was president of the Screen Actors Guild and cooperated
> gleefully with HUAC in rooting out all those supposed commies in the film biz.
> 
> He ran a heartless administration, which saw retreats in many necessary social
> areas, and created a meanspirited "me first" generation that gutted the heart
> of this country.  He allowed, even encouraged the closure of plants and the
> shifting of the very *heart* of this country's manufacturing basis to other
> countries because it was good for share holders, no matter how many people were
> thrown out of work after decades of loyal service.
> 
> You want to talk mean and cruel, nothing I said here compares in the
> *slightest* with the tens of thousands of people who have suffered lost jobs
> and incomes and even lost lives because of the policies and programs he
> implemented.
> 
> But that's the way of things...get outraged about the *word* and not the
> *thing*...and the *thing* here vastly outweighs a few pixels and phospher dots.
> 
>  jms
> 
> (jmsatb5 at aol.com)
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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 23 Feb 2000 18:59:02 -0700
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>JMS,  I can understand that your political views are very different from
>Reagan's views.  However, could you consider the possibility that his
>views were heartfelt, and that he did what he thought was best for the
>country?

So did Hitler.

Now before everyone on the planet jumps on me, NO, I am NOT comparing RR in any
way, manner, shape or form to AH.  I'm only saying that sincerely believing
that one is doing the right thing is not the same thing as DOING the right
thing.  Nearly every government leader acts his way because that's what he
thinks is appropriate; that really doesn't prove, validate or excuse anything
one way or another.

And everything I've read about Reagan indicates that he really didn't have a
firm grasp on much of what was going on; he just wanted the pointy hat that
said President on it.  He considered it his best role, and pretty much let
everyone around him write his scripts.

 jms

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