[Mr 5 0]

MTU 50:

Thank you, and amen to the wish that more folks would check the easily available facts and not just blindly swallow the liberal media spin that always finds a way to make Democrats look good, even pathetic liars such as Clinton, and somehow finds any Republican, past or present, to be lacking, somehow, someway. It's so transparent and obvious I'm amazed they still get away with this blatant bias, but then, most folks won't take the time or trouble to think for themselves when some TV newsperson will 'tell' you the 'facts' and you can then feel informed without doing any thinking and even spout off the canned lines you hear on TV from the ever-present liberal spin-masters.
Remember "It's just about sex" during the Clinton impeachment? When Clinton later pleaded guilty to purjury charges and paid a huge fine, we didn't hear much anymore about the sex angle but the phrase stuck in the public's mind and you still hear it today from the uninformed who really believe the impeachment was just those nasty Republicans trying to 'get' good old boy Bill for just having a little fun in the Oval Office.
Oh, and everyone does it, dontchaknow?

This kind of 'sheep' (follow the media leader) mentality is why we have folks who really believe Reagan was a poor President; A decade and more of unequaled national prosperity under Reagan became - when the liberal media got finished with it - "The Decade of Greed", as if something bad happened in the 1980's to our economy.
It's sad, really.

The Gulf War; caused by an unstable dictator who threatened our vital oil supply in the mid-east and supported by almost every american (and belatedly, by most Democrats in Congress) was fought quickly and decisively.
Today, Colin Powell is still considered a hero for his part in the war as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and has been elevated to Secretary to State with almost total approval of the Senate (50% Democrat) but some still buy the absurd notion that it was a 'bad' war, although most can't explain why when you press them (I have).

Now, we have another Republican President in the White House. The media spin-masters are trying to make a tiny tax cut that returns a small portion of the money the government takes from the over-taxed citizens of this country somehow evil and wrong and harmful.
Nonsense, and this kind of blather is still accepted by the uninformed as gospel truth.
You know we have a problem with keeping the public informed when hard-working folks actually believe that getting a small tax break will be bad for them. Worse than sad.

Finally, we have the perception problem. The media (fed by Democrat lies) love to trumpet Republican Presidents as inept and stupid, unlike, say, the brilliant Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Gerald Ford fell once on camera and forever was cast as a stumbling idiot, thanks mostly to Chevy Chase and his constant impersonations of Ford on Saturday Night Live in the mid-70's.
Ronald Reagan was painted as a doddering old fool who was trotted out to make a nice speech once in awhile, then sent back to take another nap while others ran the government.
Total B.S. Reagan accomplished much in eight years and was in excellent health. Yes, he developed Alzhimers in the early '90's, but he was out of office and almost 80 by then.
George Herbert Walker Bush was wealthy (only a sin if you aren't named Kednnedy) and was touted as 'out of touch' with the common man.
Maybe, but so are most Presidents. Does anyone really believe Clinton shops at KMart or takes his ride to Jiffy Lube? Get real.
Presidents are usually wealthy and successful men in middle age who enjoy a comfortable life and don't spend much time cleaning the gutters or changing the oil, and this is fine with me, no matter the party.

Finally, the media spin that our current President (George W. Bush) is some kind of fool is absurd and foolish, but it's tempting to poke fun at the powerful, I know, and Bush isn't glib so he gets the 'dumb' rap from the media and the uninformed follow along.
No matter; Bush will get things accomplished, as Reagan did, and while his political enemies are blathering about how 'dumb' he is, he'll accomplish something (like rebuilding the military, tax cuts, etc) and his enemies will have little more than name-calling to fall back on. Now, thats a true legacy.

Again, thanks for the kind words. Appreciated.