Kakki writes:
Randy and Clark,
Where do you come up with this stuff?? I've seriously never heard anything
remotely like this.
> Funny, I was just thinking about that this morning. Reagan believed
> he was going to be presiding over the apocalypse, which would be
> global nuclear war. James Watt was convinced of the same.
> Religious fanaticism combined with the awesome powers of
> the upper government is a wee bit dangerous.
>From Clark:
What Randy and I mention isn't purported, or secretive, or hidden
information. It was news, and it was reported on network television and in
the newspapers and in magazines. It was reported during a time of prosperity
in the United States, or the illusion of it, when Federal spending far
exceeded income and took up deep into trillions in debt, when junk bonds were
flying, and hammers and toilet seats in the military cost thousands of
dollars. But everyone seemed to be making money and the 87 stock market
crash was still a ways off, so may as well ignore the President's literal
interpretation of the Bible.
The return of Christ was also one of Reagan's justifications for deficit
spending. Reagan was confronted as to the accuracy of this report of his
beliefs at a press conference. He did not deny the report and called it "an
intellectual conversation" he was having with his staff one day. Reagan
was absolutely one of the worst presidents we have ever had, a man his own
conservative colleague Margaret Thatcher said "Just didn't have a real
thought in his head. Not very bright." His wife and Jim Baker ran the
country in the last few years with the help of her astrologist. It was
utterly astonishing to me that more wasn't made of this, and all the more
scary that Dubya mentions Reagan as the president he admires most.
- Clark
NP: ESPN - surfing
