GEORGE WILL'S PARALLEL-UNIVERSE REAGAN

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GEORGE WILL'S PARALLEL-UNIVERSE REAGAN

Here are the opening paragraphs of today's column by George Will. It's titled "Barack Obama, the Adolescent President":

Recently, Barack Obama -- a Demosthenes determined to elevate our politics from coarseness to elegance; a Pericles sent to ameliorate our rhetorical impoverishment -- spoke at the University of Michigan. He came to that very friendly venue -- in 2012, he received 67?percent of the vote in Ann Arbor's county -- after visiting a local sandwich shop, where a muse must have whispered in the presidential ear. Rep.?Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) had recently released his budget, so Obama expressed his disapproval by calling it, for the benefit of his academic audience, a "meanwich" and a "stinkburger."

Try to imagine Franklin Roosevelt or Dwight Eisenhower or John Kennedy or Ronald Reagan talking like that. It is unimaginable that those grown-ups would resort to japes that fourth-graders would not consider sufficiently clever for use on a playground.

Reagan? Will actually included Reagan on that list?

Yeah, right -- Reagan was way too mature to say anything like that:

5/18/83 During a speech to the White House News Photographers dinner, President Reagan sticks his thumbs in his ears and wiggles his fingers. Says the leader of the free world, "I've been waiting years to do this."

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[KatyMan]

1. He's trying so hard to sound smart...

those Greek allusions, those big words like "ameliorate"...except it's not working...

[MattBaggins]

3. He and Peggy Noonan are the worst

really well spoken idiots. The most flowerful speech yet manage to stay the dumbest things.

They are both guilty of the literary crime of being more interested in turning a phrase than making a point.

[Rex]

2. Stupid lairs and their worship of Saint Ronald...I will never understand how

George Will is considered anything but an inept blunderbuss.

[spanone]

4. i refuse to read his shit sandwiches. he's one pompous ass.

[gratuitous]

5. Ronald Reagan? Hoover's stool pigeon?

Yeah, "stinkburger" is soooo offensive, but naming names in "executive session" while denying in public that he'd named names to HUAC, Ronald Reagan was a paragon of rectitude, a veritable Uriah Heep of public officialdom.

[JHB]

6. Well, there you go again....

...George.