[lbo-talk] Reagan's folks

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jun 10 07:03:04 PDT 2004


Eubulides wrote:


>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
>
>
>[With the mass media keening for Ronnie and saluting his restoration of
>American pride, I offer this tonic rant from Mark Ames' column in NY
>Press:]
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>Which includes the typical self-congratulatory Boomer neuro-gonadal drivel
>we've all come to spite!:
>
>"If there were one perfect spite president, it was Richard Nixon. He
>looked
>mean, spoke mean and stomped on the hippies who were having too many
>orgasms, the last real orgasms this country ever witnessed."

Except that Ames isn't a boomer, is he?

Can we pick on an overpraised generation instead? Like the WW II gang? What was so great about them, really? All they ever do is whine about how things were so much better during the days of depression and war.

Doug



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