Ichabod's Kin
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Posts Tagged ‘Ronald Reagan

The Shallow GOP Gene Pool

June 6, 2011

    The GOP’s search for a viable presidential candidate is akin to a needle in a haystack. And we all know that such a quest can result in a very painful moment of discovery.     What we have now, save for Pawlenty and the recent entry of the Mittster, looks like a group photo taken […]

Thinking of Presidents

March 7, 2011

Forgive me that Presidents Day is past, but it often flies by with hardly a thought from us. And if you cringe at detail, don’t even start with the mish-mash of proclamations, executive orders and Senate bills that tinkered with bestowing proper honor on these dudes. What is now “Presidents Day” didn’t really get nailed […]

No Thanks to Presidents

November 23, 2010

This year will be no different than any other. We give no thanks to presidents till they’re out of office. Till then, we give them a lot of lip, like kids who think their parents are dumb and later realize they’re were pretty smart after all. This is especially true since JFK. The so-called “seer” […]

Beer, Or Prayers, with Obama?

October 22, 2010

In this ridiculous political climate, attacks focus not only on the President, but his wife and his religion. First Ladies usually are immune from public criticism, unless they’re Democrats, of course. Hillary Clinton did nothing wrong but when her hubby was found to be a cad, somehow she was considered party to it. Michele Obama […]