Reagan was not perfect for sure.  They called him 'The Great Communicator'.
I'm sure his acting career helped in that regard. My mom once told me that
if she had to pick one thing that Reagan did during his term above all
others it was that he made Americans proud to be Americans again. He had a
way about him that I, in my short life, had never seen before. I know he
wasn't perfect, but he was/is a great man.

I'm no fan of Clinton, but I find it hard to throw stones. I will say that
of the many words I would use to describe a great leader : honesty,
intergrity, conviction, wisdom, to name a few, I would find it hard to use
any of those to describe Clinton.

Eric

On Thursday, July 22, 1999 9:10 PM, Sean H. Breheny [SMTP:shb7@CORNELL.EDU]
wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Politics is truely remarkable,in an awful way,as you point out. However
bad
> our choice of presidents is, I do have to say one thing about your
> comments. I do not believe that Ronald Regan was elected just because he
> had been in the movies. He wasn't a super star, it had been a long time
> since he was famous in the movies, AND he had a previous political career
> as governor of the state of California, which has the most electoral
votes
> of any state in the union.
>
> Sean
>
> At 08:01 AM 7/23/99 +1000, you wrote:
> >Isn't politics remarkable?
> >
> >  I recall when I was still in school and thought government was about
> >managing a country and looking after the people, providing services such
> >as transport, medical care etc...
> >
> >  Our pollies, colourful though they be, have mostly been eccentric in
> >proportion to our scale to the world.  We just sit and marvel at the
> >sheer breathtaking scope of presidents elected on the basis of their
> >career in the movies, their prowess as an adulterer (with the staff
> >allocated them), or the vision of election to the senate on the basis of
> >sympathy for the wife of such a former.
> >
> >  Isn't politics remarkable?
> >--
> >  Cheers,
> >        Paul B.
> >
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