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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Say, WHAT?????
Message-ID: <615@loral.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Nov-84 14:30:26 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  4 14:30:26 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Nov-84 06:25:54 EST
References: <582@loral.UUCP> <372@fisher.UUCP>
Reply-To: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA
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Summary: 

In article <372@fisher.UUCP> david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) writes:
>C'mon, Roy, there is a difference between censorship and criticism.
>
>When Ted Kennedy says Reagan has no "right" to quote JFK, he means
>that it is hypocritical for a man who criticized JFK's economic
>policies as being dangerously close to Marxism and social policies as
>reminding one of Hitler to exploit JFK's memory for his own
>advancement.  He is not suggesting that Reagan ought to be forbidden
>from saying such things, merely that he exercise his conscience a wee
>bit and voluntarily desist.
>
>					David Rubin

	Well, he should have said so.  For a proud liberal to say
any citizen has "no right" to speak as he wills is heresy.

	Further points: Reagan's comments on JFK's *proposed* policies
are hardly less vitriolic than Mondale's on Reagan's.  And history
shows that JFK was in fact much closer to the ideals that Reagan and
I share than he appeared to be before his election, and than his
brother Teddy.  Reagan has expressed such, and I believe him. (I don't
always).

	What about Mr. Mondale's clever use of a Will Rogers quote
early in the Louisville debate?  A master stroke, but if one is supposed
to quote only those with whom one has philisophical agreement regarding
the matter at hand, then Mondale was a parsec or two out of line in
bringing in Will Rogers.

	Let's face it: the Mondale/liberal camp has a tough row to hoe,
both for the coming election and (most likely) the years to come.
Kennedy was a good, though imperfect president, who is remembered in a
somewhat glorified light because of the tragic nature of his death.
The Mondale campaign want JFK's great image all to itself, and that's
a false wish.
-- 
[     I am not a stranger, but a friend you haven't met yet     ]

Ray Simard
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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