{"id":2013,"date":"2004-06-08T10:27:55","date_gmt":"2004-06-08T17:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/06\/show-some-respect\/"},"modified":"2004-06-08T10:27:55","modified_gmt":"2004-06-08T17:27:55","slug":"show-some-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/08\/show-some-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Show some respect – updated"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tJesus Christ, Kowalski<\/a>, can’t you show some respect? I’ve got some critical things to add about President Reagan too, but I’m going to wait at least until the body is in the ground before smearing them all over the Web. While you obviously don’t want to give him credit for the things that happened during and after his administration – such as the fall of Soviet Communism (the ideology of your ancestors?) only the truly blind fail to credit him for at least accelerating the process. So the comfort with which you assign him blame is a logical disconnect. If we can argue that the Soviet Union would have fallen anyway, why can’t we argue that the Death Squads would have also?<\/p>\n

Rightly or wrongly, we’ve established the tradition of assigning both credit and blame for the major events that occur during a presidential administration, and on that basis alone Reagan was one of our five greatest presidents; if you disallow that sort of thinking, then the Clinton Economy “would have happened anyway.” So what’s it going to be, logical consistency or left-wing wackaholism?<\/p>\n

UPDATE: I guess the body’s getting cold, because the vultures are circling. See lovable troll Christopher Hitchens bragging about his vocabulary<\/a>, Tony Pierce demonstrating his lack of one<\/a>, Marc Cooper whining like a little crybaby<\/a>, and our favorite Carrie Bradshaw wannabe carry on in predicatable fashion<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jesus Christ, Kowalski, can’t you show some respect? I’ve got some critical things to add about President Reagan too, but I’m going to wait at least until the body is in the ground before smearing them all over the Web. While you obviously don’t want to give him credit for the things that happened during … Continue reading “Show some respect – updated”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-wt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}