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Yeah, I don't remember Roy Hattersley's actual face nearly as well as I remember his Spitting Image puppet spraying spital like a garden hose. I don't think I remember anything Paddy Ashdown <em>actually</em> said but I definitely remember the SI "I didn't touch her on the left leg, or on the right leg, but somwhere in between"

I was disappointed I couldn't quickly find a youtube of them pouring jelly beans into Reagan's head, but inserting the brain was good enough.

Good times :)

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why are we clutching our pearls here? republicans routinely rewrite the entire history of the last 50 years. and GOD, they certainly rewrite (well,attempt) the bush administration. hell, mittens is rewriting his own history on a daily basis.

if we want to clutch our pearls about barry, i would say let's focus on drone strikes and civilian wiretapping.

not BS campaign crap.

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Well, it wasn't me, but I do have a Mormon ex-wife and ex-stepdaughter that I may have mentioned. (They were ex- before they were Mormon, so not so much causality).

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I walked up there once. Interesting geology and quite a view.

Also, for some reason, the bas relief made me think of rocket launchers.

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I have no pearls to clutch, and I find the right's over-reaction amusing; but I do think that it is a little inappropriate to turn the biographical sketches of past Presidents, on the official White House website, even partly into advertisements for the current one.

The idea of drawing parallels is perfectly okay, but it seems to me that such parallels should be drawn in separate articles.

Why mention it (or clutch pearls about it)? I try to correct my small mistakes as well as my larger ones. I expect the same thing from people I respect.

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Put it on your fries, and that's two servings of veggies! The GOP is trying to put everyone on the Red State Diet.

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The bits that aren't footnotes are pretty stomach-churning lie-packed right-wing propaganda, like the part where they claim that Reagan refused to reverse tax-cutting course in the face of the skullfucking deficit he created, even though he raised taxes multiple times.

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"Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears." --British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher "What planet is he living on?" --President Mitterand of France poses this question about Reagan to Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau. <a href="http://thereaganyears.tripo..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://thereaganyears.tripod.com/reaganquotes.htm...">http://thereaganyears.tripo...

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<blockquote>Even as [a] kid I knew he was a brainless puppet.</blockquote>

Anything to do with <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=p3u3PwCZfM4" target="_blank">this</a>?

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Wailing? Check. Gnashing of teeth? Check.

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Millions of others have wondered the same thing.

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Ronald Reagan was against colorizing black and white pictures.

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Your dad is <a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doug_Tracht" target="_blank">the Greaseman</a>??

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"And, just as Reagan helped to break up the Soviet Union, President Obama broke up the coalition of teatards, evangelicals, and ultra-wealthy during his second term."

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