Ding Dong the Wizard's Dead

Well, Ronbo has finally kicked the bucket. I predicted the Gipper's death would occur in the midst of the 2000 election 'recount, when it might've helped the Republicans to shift attention from the nasty realpoliticking going on down in Florida, but apparently he lasted a bit longer. Not surprisingly, the conservative mainstream media are fawning over the dead president. It's quite disgusting, & I'm sure right-wing sycophants will use Ronnie's death to divert attention from the current troubles that the Cheney-Bush administration have created in the country and abroad. Could Ronnie's death have been timed so that the GOP could take airtime away from the attention that Bill Clinton and his memoirs will likely receive? I'll leave that one for the conspiracy theorists to mull over.

In the meantime, let's have no nostalgia for an age that never existed & remember that Ronnie's administration was one of the most corrupt ever. His aides were charged with the most ethics violations of any U.S. administration ever, & Iran-Contra was a true scandal on an even bigger scale than Watergate. I, for one, am not at all saddened to know that Reagan has died. He was a deceitful politician who was little more than a puppet for crooked handlers who used him to advance a non-egalitarian political agenda that further divided America into a land of haves and have-nots.