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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
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Subject: Re: Re: Reagan a pathological liar:re to Cramer
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Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 13:32:46 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 13:32:46 1986
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> 
> I know you don't like your President, Mr. Sevener, but even if you have never 
> been caught saying something naughty where you oughtn't have, you could at 
> least have the courtesy (if not the empathy) to let him deny his oopsie.
> After all, you'd do it for Gorbachev, I just know you would.
> 
> 
> 					Daniel R. Simon

No, I wouldn't do the same for Gorbachev.  I thought it was pretty
funny when he said he'd met with "Jesse James" about nuclear testing
and Soviet Jews!  It is as ludicrous to hear Soviet claims that
they are "liberating Afghanistan" as it was to hear similar
American claims about "liberating Vietnam" 20 years ago.
 
Somehow it seems quite a feeble excuse to say that Reagan's claiming
to propose only a 3% increase in money for the Pentagon when he is
actually proposing 8% is "typical for American politics".
It's like arguing that it was perfectly OK for Marcos to win
a district 13,445 to 0 because Mayor Daley did similar tricks
(never *so* blatant) in Chicago or that Tricky Dicky's dirty tricks,
bugging his opponents political headquarters, putting enemies on
a hit list for the IRS were just "politics as usual".
Lying is lying and deceit is deceit and they are *wrong*.
 
I could care less if Reagan swears and I would grant him the courtesy
of lying about such a little thing if he would grant me and
the American public the courtesy of stopping his lies about
just about every major issue facing the nation.
 
     tim sevener    whuxn!orb