Don't Be Fooled: Why Bush is not Reagan

The Bushies desperately want people to think that their favorite inarticulate monkey is virtually indistinguishable from Ronald Reagan. I find that insulting, even as a bleeding heart liberal who remembers the Reagan years as an egotistical orgy of public spending. The next time you hear that argument, I want you to consider the following facts about Reagan:
• He could perform basic arithmetic
• Never flung poo (at least in public)
• When he used the phrase “soviet union” it actually described an existing geopolitical structure, not a slip of the tongue when he meant to say “Russia.”
• He wasn’t a total embarrassment
• Had friends in France
• Picked his nose – didn’t eat it
• Comfortable with two or even three syllable words
• When you type “miserable failure” in Google, his name doesn’t come up first
• At least understood he was screwing the American people when he chose to screw them