How is that hypocritical?

Post #419,834 by drook 8/18/17 8:06:30 PM 8/18/17 8:06:30 PM Reply	How is that hypocritical? Reagan was popular with the right, and the press reported that the visit was a bad idea. Today, Trump is popular with the fringe right, and pretty much everyone else is saying his statements are a bad idea. If there's a difference, it's that even Reagan's opponents didn't suggest that he supported Nazism, while with Trump it's widely suspected. -- Drew
Post #419,841 by Ashton 8/18/17 10:07:59 PM 8/18/17 10:07:59 PM Reply	"widely suspected" Well.. My own ear-pans have heard him use the phrase, "I'd be honored to meet with ____" re. Erdogan, Un and Duterte ... there may be others on video too. I narrowly suspect, accordingly. He Knows who is (a)like. (Maybe though, he wants to meet, sucker-punch and maim each one?) ..and we're all being Mean to the mofo :-/
Post #419,876 by mmoffitt 8/21/17 8:47:32 AM 8/21/17 8:47:32 AM Reply	And yet, he persisted. I remember a tearing Ellie Weisel begging Reagan not go honor dead Nazis. It made me sick. Up until this year, I don't think I've ever been as ashamed of my country as I was that day. Anyone who claims that Reagan was not (at the very least) a Fascist sympathizer didn't pay attention to the 1980's. ALBANY, March 25— Governor Cuomo today accused President Reagan of being ''extraordinarily insensitive'' about the Holocaust and said he had written a letter to the White House to express the view. The Nazis' killing of six million Jews was ''unique in its savagery,'' and the world should never forget it, Mr. Cuomo told reporters. In response to the Governor's comments to the reporters, a White House spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, tonight issued this statement: ''The President is very sensitive to the colossal tragedy of the Jewish population during World War II. He has often said that the Holocaust should never be forgotten. But we also have to look to the future of peace and sharing with the German people.'' The White House press office said there would be no immediate reply to the Governor's letter. The President's comments at his news conference Thursday about his decision not to visit a concentration camp site in Germany, Mr. Cuomo said, could be seen as ''the same as saying, 'Let's forget about the Holocaust.' '' Mr. Cuomo brought up the matter in an impromptu conversation with reporters. What Mr. Reagan said specifically, in response to a question about his decision not to visit Dachau when he goes to West Germany in May, around the time of the 40th anniversary of V-E Day, was this: ''Instead of reawakening the memories and so forth, and the passions of the time, that maybe we should observe this day as the day when, 40 years ago, peace began and friendship.'' ''And I felt that, since the German people have very few alive that remember even the war, and certainly none of them who were adults and participating in any way,'' the President went on, ''they have a feeling and a guilt feeling that's been imposed upon them.'' http://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/26/nyregion/cuomo-attacks-reagan-on-holocaust-comment.html Riiight. No equivocating there. bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again.
Post #419,881 by Ashton 8/21/17 5:27:33 PM 8/21/17 5:27:33 PM Reply	(I bloody-well visited THAT pernicious Place/also described an odd event--in these parts.) It seems that ~~America~~Murica's daily-fantasies about-Itself are so glass-fragile that, most of Its Myths just won't bear inspection by a bright-light (like say, a near burned-down candle?) Rationalization + all those fucking-Euphemisms appears to be a big part of the incessant internal-Lying but it also needs that common-thread of immanent Iggerance, on local/National and/World-Scale to end up: Blaming! some sky-apparition for {{ugh}} ... "makin U.S. so S p e c i a l". ..Talk aboucher 'Incestuous Religio-inventions' from the Puritans --> On.

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