Thank you for that wonderful contribution. You’re so wrong on the Cuban missle crisis and JFK/Vietnam that I’d have to start an entire NEW BLOG just to help you out. (By the way, the blog post was not about liberals or conservatives. Did you happen to catch that?)

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thanks for your intelligent response.

yeah, Ronnie Regan was seen as a joke in the 80s. This is from what I vaguely remember as a very young child and then what I read in subsequent history books. He was much like George W Bush – a simple man with the common touch who was actually a puppet for the dark forces of conservatism.
His image was re-habilitated as the Republicans desperately sought an icon to rival JFK and during the 8 years of Clinton they started looking back wistfully and decided that in comparison to Ford and Nixon, hey, Ronnie wasnt that bad afterall. Lets make him an icon!

Karl – your comments are not worthy of response and are beneath contempt.

Be a good little boy and go to the “history” section ( it begins with a H) in your local library or bookstore (if you dont know where to find one, try a google search) and read(you can read right) some history books.

When you have done so, then I may entertain your nonsense.
As a starting point, you could read how all historians agree that it was the USSR (not USA/UK) that defeated Nazi Germany as 75 percent of Wermacht troops were deployed to the Eastern Front. Compare the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk in 1942/43 with say D-Day/Battle of the Bulge/Market Garden in 1944. The war was won by then and those battles paled into insignificance compared to the sheer scale of Stalingrad and Kursk.

Regan – clearly you have no idea of the death-squads that the US ran in the 1980s in South America. In 1987 the World Court convicted the US and Regan of state-terrorism for the violence and war crimes they commited against Nicaragua.
Of course you have probably not heard of this so hey, its ok – I blame the corporate TV you probably watch!

And finally – Dick fucking Cheney.
LOL.

Read a book by the guy who was in charge of Conter-Terrorism in the US – Richard Clarke. It was called…….Against All Enemies. Great book.
Basically Clinton had regular meetings with him about Al-Queda – and there were no serious attacks on his watch.
Under Bush and Cheney, their dicks grew hard thinking about oil and oil only. Poor old Richard Clarke tried to warn them about Al-Queda and Bin Laden. Bush and Cheney didnt care – they just lusted after oil-fields.
So the US got hit by terrorists on 9-11. Wouldnt have happened under Clinton. The 9-11 commmission said as much.
Then Bush and Cheney pulled Special Forces away from the hunt from Bin Laden to find Saddam Hussein instead!
And of course lets not forget Cheneys fetish for tortue.
If there is any justicce in the world, just as Nazi war criminals swung from the gallows at Nuremberg, hopefully Cheny, Bush and the neo-c-nsevervative cabal that ruined your country, destroyed the global economy, sanctioned torture and killed 1 million Iraqis will all swing fom the galllows.

Thankfully Obama has been elected now.

I have read his two books – Dreams of my Father and the Audacity of Hope.
You could not wish for a more humane, intelligent leader. I wish he was the President of Ireland. I would then be proud to be Irish.
Relax. Your country is now in safe hands.

Also you can now travel anywhere in the world with your head held high with pride.
Under Bush – well, if you were American, you were better off pretending you were Canadian when travelling !

Keep Smiling,
JT

I remember his speech at the 88 convention and thought he was far more charismatic than Dukakis. (I realize that’s not saying much considering a sleeping turtle could have outdone Dukakis.)
In the U.S, he has fostered a negative image for himself for turning everything into a racial issue and playing the race card every chance he gets. He does it to a point where even Black folk believe he hurts their cause.

He may be known in the UK, but consider that people in places Germany, Switzerland and Australia are generally unfamiliar with him, and yet there are readers from all of those places.

By the way, the mention of Ronald Reagan!! Now, there is a case for revisionist history that completely deserves its own Blog post. John McCain’s hero, and hero to most Republican politicians these days, Ronnie Reagan was vastly considered a dimwit in pop culture in the late 80s . As a high school kid to 20 years later, I watched Reagan be transformed from Jerk-off to “Hero.” Amazing, isn’t it?

Nevertheless, thanks for the feedback. Look at the bright side, the post inspired you to comment on the Blog. I am always pleasantly surprised as to the caliber of readers and their diverse backgrounds.

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Karl,
Ummm, thanks for the lesson. Kennedy did not get us into Vietnam. He was getting us out. It’s what got him killed. As for Gerald Ford, well, while we are on the topic of “History Lessons,” you ought to read up on the “Warren Commission.” ;-)

Intellectually, Ford was considered to be not the sharpest tool in the shed, even by many people in his own party. Then again, you probably already know that since you seem to be a fan.
Leave it to my Blog to draw out the president of the Gerald Ford fan club. Agh

By the way, the point of the Blog entry was not regarding Cheney or Ford. It’s about how people have two different accounts of someone before and post their passing away. That includes cheney for most of us who don’t live in Fantasy land. ;-) Next, you’re going to invite me to go hunting with him…. No, thanks; in advance.

Tax time means sometimes us mere mortals get sneaky peeks into politicians secret financial records. After much clamor, it turns out Obama gave about 6 percent of his income in 2006. That fraction was up from the 1 percent they gave in 2000-2004, which clocked in far lower than the national average.

How generous is Dick Cheney? Very! Cheney gave away a whopping 78 percent of his income in 2006. (For the mathematically inclined and curious, 78 percent=$6.9 million, so 100 percent=x. Come on cross-multipliers! I know you’re out there!) Do the wealthy like our friend Mr. Cheney give away the most loot? To see the surprising answer, read more.

It turns out, the working poor are actually the most generous givers when considering giving as a percentage of income. Studies show the folks who have the least to give tend to give away between 4 and 5 percent of their incomes, on average. The fabulously wealthy give away between three and four percent. Oddly both poor and wealthy give away significantly more than the middle class.

Why do you think those with less to give seem to prioritize it more than those who are more comfortable? Is charitable giving a fair measure of character?

In October 2001, Ford broke with conservative members of the Republican party by stating that gay and lesbian couples “ought to be treated equally. Period.” He became the highest ranking Republican to embrace full equality for gays and lesbians, stating his belief that there should be a federal amendment outlawing anti-gay job discrimination and expressing his hope that the Republican Party would reach out to gay and lesbian voters.[54] He also was a member of the Republican Unity Coalition, which The New York Times described as “a group of prominent Republicans, including former President Gerald R. Ford, dedicated to making sexual orientation a non-issue in the Republican Party”.[55]

On November 22, 2004, New York Republican Governor George Pataki named Ford and the other living former Presidents (Carter, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton) as honorary members of the board rebuilding the World Trade Center.

In a pre-recorded embargoed interview with Bob Woodward of The Washington Post in July 2004, Ford stated that he disagreed “very strongly” with the Bush administration’s choice of Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction as justification for its decision to invade Iraq, calling it a “big mistake” unrelated to the national security of the United States and indicating that he would not have gone to war had he been President. The details of the interview were not released until after Ford’s death, as he requested

You can say what you want about Cheney, but we were not attacked once after 9/11. Also if you look at his tax records he donates more per his income percentage to charitys (childrenes charities, heart association,ect) than any other politican. Look it up.

Gerald Ford was not a bad guy. He grew up fatherless for a while, was a WW2 hero, built himself up from nothing and along with Everit Derksen helped to pass the 1964 Civil Rights legisation. Little known fact (kept down by the liberal media) is that more Republicans voted for that act than Democrats. Johnson personally went to both of them to help get the legislation passed for he knew many southern party members would not pass it. So much for an evil prick – right?

As far as Jesse Jackson goes, he ran on a platfrom in the 80′s of taking public retirement money and using it for public housing. So a guy like this who robs from hard working Americans is to be exhalted? Sorry I work to hard for my money…

Just my two cents and read your history books more often…

Thanks and enjoy the 4th – you know the country that saved the world from two world wars, defeated the USSR…need I say more?

I have enjoyed reading your blog from some time – generally you have the right approach to game and pick up however I have to take issue with this patronising and ignorant comment.

“For the international Audience, Jesse Jackson is a reverend who likes to get involved in politics, and turn everything into a race issue; particularly if he can grab the spotlight. He’d make a national racial case out of why your ordered the “Pinto Beans” as opposed to the “Black Beans” at a Mexican restaurant..”

WTF ?

Jesse Jackson is one of the best politicians to have emerged out of American in the past 30 years and that is why he is known, loved, admired and respected around the globe.

He is the true inheritor of Martin Luther Kings mantle (he was actually right beside him when MLK was assassinated) and he should have gotten the Democratic Party nomination in both 1984&88.
There was huge excitement in Europe at the time. was a kid and my parents were ecstatic at the prospect of Jesse being President instead of the fascist,war-criminal Ronald Regan and he had an Obama like effect however the US was not ready for a black man to be president.
Hence why they picked the vacuous and insipid Michael Dukakis in ’88 and the Dems lost when they should have won.

I remember him giving a very eloquent and passionate speech against the Iraq War in London in 2003. A criminal invasion which violated international law and resulted in 1,000,000 dead Iraqis and 4,500 dead US Soldiers.
What did *you* do to try to stop this crime from happening Cameron?
More than Jesse?

I doubt it! So get off your high horse and give him some respect.
He has done a lot to further the cause of progressives and in your own country he has done a lot to champion the cause of equality,justice, human rights and giving a voice to the voiceless.

Grandmaster Flash – a musical genius and legend even made a tune called Jesse in his honor!

That is the problem with Americans. You attack someone like Jesse Jackson and elect an idiot like George Bush. Sigh ………

At least you like George Carlin and rightly call Dick Cheney “evil” (which he is) so I can *almost* overlook your attack on Jesse.
Otherwise, keep up the blog as it is one of the better ones out there.

Now crank this tune out loud!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3IsCfMB0rk