Dumb and dumber

 

However, I had the previlage to witness the reign of two price-winning idiots recently. The problem is I cannot decide which one is dumber.

 

Now, everyone knows Dubya, but considering many people here are younger than I am, I'll give some info on Reagan.

 

He was a bad actor who became the Governor of California (sounds familiar!). He later became the President, because his acting experience was useful in making speeches. Behind him, in the government, were people like Cheney and Rumsfeld (sounds familiar!). He had an astrologer in the White House...

 

Here are some quotes about him:

 

"I don't think he's read the report in detail. It's five-and-a-half pages, double-spaced." -- Larry Speakes explaining why Ronnie didn't know about a recent truck bombing in Beirut. 5 Oct 1984

There are times when you really need him to do some work, and all he wants to do is tell stories about his movie days." -- Anonymous White House aide. 31 Aug 1980

"He knows less about the budget than any president in my lifetime. He can't even carry on a conversation about the budget. It's an absolute and utter disgrace." -- House Speaker Tip O'Neill after a meeting with Ronnie. 23 Nov 1980

"He only works three to three and a half hours a day. He doesn't do his homework. He doesn't read his briefing papers. It's sinful that this man is President of the United States." -- Tip O'Neill exasperated after meeting with Ronnie. 31 Oct 1983

"What do you do when your President ignores all the palpable, relevant facts and wanders in circles?" -- David Stockman (ex Reagan Cabinet member), explaining what briefings with Ronnie were like. 12 April 1986

"God, he's a bore. And a bad actor. Besides, he has a low order of intelligence, with a certain cunning. And not animal cunning, Human cunning. Animal cunning is too fine an expression for him. He's inflated, he's egotistical -- he's one of those people who thinks he is right, and he's not right. He's not right about anything." -- Movie director John Huston (to Rolling Stone), after a meeting with Ronnie.

"An amiable dunce." -- Clark Gifford (former Defense Secretary), describing Ronnie at a Georgetown dinner party.

"... that incoherent cretin." -- Andre Faulds (British Labour Party member), discussing Ronnie in Parliament.

"Stupefyingly incredible." -- British Labour Party member Denis Healy's reaction to Ronnie's "explaining" trading weapons for hostages with Iran. 14 Nov 1986

"I was sitting there so worried about 'throw weight', and Reagan suddenly asks us if we've seen War Games." -- Anonymous Congressman after a meeting with Ronnie to discuss arms control. 7 June 1983

"His answers to any questions about young men being killed for some vague and perhaps non-existent reason in Central America has been to smile, nod, wave a hand and walk on. And America applauds, thus proving that senility is a communicable disease." -- Columnist Jimmy Breslin explaining Ronnie's ability to "get away with it".

"Since when is it considered cruel and unusual punishment to expect the President to learn the facts he needs to govern?" -- Geraldine Ferraro asking an impossible question to answer. 11 Oct 1984

"Mr. Reagan's ignorance about the Soviet Union and his air-headed rhetoric on the issues of foreign policy and arms control have reached the limit of tolerance and have become and embarrassment to the US and a danger to world peace." -- The Chicago Tribune telling the truth in endorsing (!) Ronnie for re-election. 28 Oct 1984

 

Most incredible thing about Reagan is that the American Conservatives worship him because due to a fluke he happened to be on the throne when the Soviet Union collapsed. Of course, that the American cons believe the imbecilic Raygun destroyed the SU, is a testament to their unsurpassed genious.

 

So, help me decide, which one is dumber?

 

I don�t know how Reagan was in regards to this, since when he was in power I was born, but in any case I voted for him.

 

Well... for every step forward in learning a little about ourseleves, there is alway's those that help the rest in taking "10 steps" back!

 

Perhaps there need's too be an international school where everyone can go. In which...  helps and teaches them too recognise political bias when they see or read about it?

Only after Franklin Roosevelt's reign, so far as I am concerned.

 

 

Now, now. I've never claimed to be anything other than a doddering simpleton.

 

If the topic overwhelms your intellect, so that you can't participate, don't participate. You don't need to write a paragraph to excuse yourself. This is not grade school, and I am nor your teacher.

 

I am actually so slow-witted that I mistook you for my teacher. I now realize that this is not grade school and you nor are my teacher. Although given that my humble sense of humor must, of necessity, match my even more humble IQ, I don't quite understand how you expected me to come up with that on my own.

 

Unfortunately nowadays people have a hard time with sense of humour unless you out some ugly yellow faces next to your sentences.

 

I actually have to agree with you here. Well phrased.

 

However, do you mean that you are not concerned by the genocidal, slave driving, expansionistic racial supremacism US presidents have been practising until Roosevelt?

 

 

-Akolouthos