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From: lkk@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: reagan's weekends
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 11:00:20 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 28 11:00:20 1985
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Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney)
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In article <471@im4u.UUCP> riddle@im4u.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) writes:
>>> What difference does it make where any President spends his
>>> weekends?  Or how many, for that matter.
>
>In the case of Reagan, it may not make any difference at all where or how he
>spends his weekends -- fact is, even when he's in Washington he's only a
>part-time President.  He's the only President in modern U.S. history who
>watches soap operas, takes long afternoon naps and has important decisions
>presented to him by his staff as multiple-choice problems.
>
>--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
>--- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech}!ut-sally!riddle   riddle@ut-sally.UUCP
>--- riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle%zotz@ut-sally, riddle%im4u@ut-sally


Well, one thing Reagan doesn't seem to do on his weekends is to
keep abreast of current events.

On an Atlanta radio station this week, Reagan stated that
the government of South Africa was "reformist", and that
it had totally eliminated segregation in public places.

A few hours later, his "advisors" (handlers), "clarified" (refuted)
his statements, admitting that the only reforms in S.A. have been
cosmetic, and that the statement about eliminating segregation
was simply false.

Of course Reagan doesn't have to check his facts, because he's the
President, and when he says something, millions of people accross the
country will beleive it, whether its true or not.


-- 

Sport Death,
Larry Kolodney
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