From: Adam Watt (adamwatt@mac.com)
Date: Sun Jun 06 2004 - 13:57:04 BST
Is this a joke?
On Sunday, June 6, 2004, at 01:38 pm, Platt Holden wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> I agree whole-heartedly with your reminder of Ronald Reagan's
> greatness.
> He was instrumental in saving Western civilization from Communist
> dreams
> of world domination, both in Europe and in South America.
>
> There are still those among the intellectual elite who hate Reagan for
> defeating Marxist-Leninism and preserving, as you so succinctly put it,
> "free thought," without which "freedom" is an empty word.
>
> To "progressives" Reagan was characterized as an empty-headed "cowboy,"
> the same epithet they now use to describe President Bush who is
> continuing
> Reagan's legacy of defeating tyrannies and freeing millions to think
> and
> speak without fear. Thanks to such leadership, the intellectual level
> fares well.
>
> Best regards,
> Platt
>
>> It's easy to forget, even for people who lived through it in their
>> younger
>> years, the Cold War. The Soviet Union represented the gravest
>> continuous
>> threat to free thought in history. Static Patterns at their most
>> deadly.
>> The national mood in the late 1970s wasn't that great, especially in
>> the
>> wake of the Iranian hostage crisis. Many felt America had lost its
>> ability--indeed its very will--to influence world events. The Soviet
>> war
>> machine rolled into Afghanistan and there was no end to the Cold War
>> in
>> sight. Ronald Reagan is generally recognized as the man most directly
>> responsible for the shameless rebirth of American pride and patriotism
>> which unfurled across the United States like an enormous flag during
>> the 8
>> years of his presidency. A former lifeguard, Reagan in many ways
>> rescued
>> the nation from a time of poisonous self-doubt. We stand safely on
>> shore
>> now, out of harm's way...free to think in our own way, free to love
>> in our
>> own way, free to lose in our own way...and as the Old Lifeguard swims
>> off
>> into the sunset, let us remember how he inspired a nation that needed
>> inspiration. Let's go out and win one for the Gipper. He won one for
>> the
>> world.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>
>
>
>
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