Posted on 07/27/2006 2:40:34 PM PDT by beckett
Why does the president call the secretary of state "Condi"? And what exactly is his philosophy?
Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT
Why does President Bush refer in public to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as "Condi"? Did Dwight Eisenhower call his Secretary of State "Johnny"? Did Jimmy Carter call his "Eddie," or Bill Clinton call his "Maddy," or Richard Nixon call his "Willie" or "Hank"? What are the implications of such informality?
I know it is small, but in a way such things are never small. To me it seems a part of the rhetorical childishness of the age, the faux egalitarianism of the era. It reminds me of how people in the administration and Congress--every politician, in fact--always refer to mothers as moms: We must help working moms." You're not allowed to say "mother" or "father" in politics anymore, it's all mom and dad and the kids. This is the buzzy soft-speak of a peaceless era; it is an attempt to try to establish in sound what you can't establish in fact.
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Let me present you with the defense of Ronald Reagan. You are obviously not up to defending him.
Reagan went into to Lebanon with the hopes that a stable government could be set up. But the fighting with Syria, Lebanon and Israel convinced Reagan that it was not a good thing to do.
In Korea and Viet Nam the Soviets had managed to bog us down in a war with their puppets. The soviets supplied and we died. It was time for direct confrontation coupled with secondary confrontation with our third party nation fighting the Russians. Reagan decided to turn the tables on the Soviet Union.
Reagan decided to take Soviets down a notch or two by having them fight our surrogates. And that is what he did in Afghanistan. He used quite unsavory Afghanistan Militant Muslim nationals to fight the Russian military with guerrilla tactics. It went a long way towards making Afghanistan the Soviet Union's Viet Nam.
It also saved a ton of money that could be spent on high tech weapons that the soviets could not match.
I post this in an attempt to prove to you that you are incapable of even coming close to defending Ronald Reagan.
Your defense is angry name calling. It only reveals your lack of intelligence.
I knew Ronald Reagan, Betty and Jerry Ford introduced me to him. I knew Nixon too. President Ford was kind enough to introduce me to him, too.
You wouldn't know a conservative if he hit you on your nose. You are at best a confused individual who wouldn't know what Reagan was up to if he had written you a letter explaining it.
If you give a damn about the memory of Ronald Reagan you'll start using a more suitable name... Reagan's Embarrassment is a lot more apropos.
Next!
I did.
Use the search option (poster) and type in 'Reagan Man'
You have yet to state one historical fact. The ONLY thing you've done on this thread, is to name call, post drivel, act like a two year old, and defame the name of Reagan.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Try again.
I've been defending Reagan on most of this entire thread. But thanks for your post, CT. I'll keep the handle "Reagan Man".
You did nothing. As usual.
No, as usual, I kicked your tail. As has several other on this thread. It ain't hard.
I enjoy seeing you Bush cheerleaders cry and whine. Brings joy to my heart.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658606/posts
LOL
Whistling by the graveyard of your own corrrupted being, I see.
Wow - you've certainly managed to bring on the wrath of all the usual suspects this evening. LOL.
Truth kills you guys and I love watching you get all worked up, mad as hell!
Its been awhile since the "usual suspects" gathered together to take on old Reagan Man. Keeps me sharp. Besides, they're really harmless creatures. LOL
Yeah not only do you use the Reagan Myth to bash, you use crazy Pat. Whose next? Paul Craig Roberts?
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