“Terrific” would grossly overstate it. Anyone who followed Reagan would have a tough act to follow. Taranto had a funny opening on his essay yesterday, longing for the good old days, when we had a president as competent as Carter, or as honest as Nixon.
Bush1 was too busy cleaning up after Ronnie, Jimmy, & Tricky to make his own mark. (Except for the collapse of the iron curtain. The fact that that‘s come to seem irrelevant is significant.) He left Somalia as an on-the-job training run for Bubba, who needed it & learned well. W was unfinished business, not well executed. O’s had to carry an anchor the whole way, probably good for the divided government concept, but I wish he’d succeeded better with socialized medicine.
ajr58 almost 10 years ago
There’s that pony again ….
jbmlaw01 almost 10 years ago
“Terrific” would grossly overstate it. Anyone who followed Reagan would have a tough act to follow. Taranto had a funny opening on his essay yesterday, longing for the good old days, when we had a president as competent as Carter, or as honest as Nixon.
kaffekup almost 10 years ago
You just beat me to it. I was going to say, 43 made me nostalgic for the honesty of Nixon, the brilliance of Reagan, and the machismo of GHWB….
Al Nala almost 10 years ago
Kaffekup, there are different levels of reality in this strip and the readers thereof, all in Brownian motion.
ChukLitl Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Bush1 was too busy cleaning up after Ronnie, Jimmy, & Tricky to make his own mark. (Except for the collapse of the iron curtain. The fact that that‘s come to seem irrelevant is significant.) He left Somalia as an on-the-job training run for Bubba, who needed it & learned well. W was unfinished business, not well executed. O’s had to carry an anchor the whole way, probably good for the divided government concept, but I wish he’d succeeded better with socialized medicine.
ChukLitl Premium Member almost 10 years ago
The death of moderate/left Republicanism is a bigger black mark on the boomer generation than doped hippies humping the mud.