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From: rob@dadla.tek.com (Rob Vetter;1044;92-725;LP=A;60YB)
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Subject: Re: Reagan
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Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 15:19:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 25 15:19:27 1986
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In article <2018@sequent.UUCP> brian@sequent.UUCP (Brian Godfrey) writes:
>
>   Uncle Ronnie Rayguns may not be one of my all-time favorite people, but 
>he hasn't been as bad as I thought he would be when he was first elected.
>We haven't had a war or anything, yet. I figured he'd have us out there
>shooting within his first year. 

	Of course, Grenada, Lebanon, and Libya don't count.  They weren't
	wars, just "police actions" :-)
>
>   He probably doesn't care a lick about drugs. He's just doing it for Nancy.
>Remember a few years ago when all the news ever mentioned about Nancy was her
>wardrobe? So she set out on a Quest to gain credibility. She decided that to
>make war on drugs would be here Quest, and has been building on it for a long 
>time. When she first started, nobody tried to cover up the fact that the whole 
>thing was just for her image. People forget in time so there was no need. It 
>seems to have worked, too. Everyone is certainly into the drug wars now. The 
>media covers it, the Army fights it, the corporations and governments test 
>for drugs, and who is out in the forefront? Nanny Nancy and her faithful 
>sidekick and expert PR person, Uncle Ronnie Rayguns. They probably won't do
>anything about the drug problem, but they are sure making a lot of people
>happy by fighting the "good fight". 

	And a lot of people angry by fighting "the wrong fight".


Rob Vetter
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