Thursday, May 10, 2007
Politicians - Ronald Reagan
Actor, statesman, optimist, dreamer, and forever young...
Roger Simon remembers Ronald Reagan:
"His speeches, like his campaign slogan -- "Let's make America great again" -- have the virtue of simplicity. His optimism is simply uncrushable. His mother got him into acting, and it is a world he never left.
The America he loves is the America of Hollywood, where our motives are always true, our hearts always pure and our ultimate victory never in doubt.
And even when he left movie-making, he never left the stage. Now, running against the incumbent but unelected Ford in the Republican primaries, Reagan's entire campaign resembles a feature-length film.
He was a performer in an era when we were only beginning to realize that performing was one of the most important things a presidential candidate can do."
