revisionism is a very scary thing on both sides…one thing I have discovered in trying to get to the “authentic” history of anything I am interested in is still a matter of the integrity of the record keeper and the “reason” they did it in the first place…Thomas Edison had a film about him with Mickey Rooney starring as a young Thomas Edison but you never see the man who basically screwed over Nicolai Tesla for his AC theories…just as Marconi stole the “father of radio” from him.  One thing has become quite clear to me at this present point, that is, many of the famous people in history were more or less thieves in the temple they called themselves the holiest of holies for.  In some cases, there were really some awesome folks but for some reason, it really seems the norm that obfuscation, misdirection, deceit and chicanery(well, as most poiticians today are lawyers, the old courtiers of history were rather sharp people too)…sometimes in the company of the truly educated I have found a certain ruthlessness with abandon that is always painted up tight with an “endearing” smile.

I value your opinion.  I have defended Reagan as I was an Army man back in the time when he was my commander in chief and I was proud of the Army and that time still.  However, in light of what is coming out about certain tax benefits and many “silent acts and laws” that never were popularized as being done by Reagan, I have had to drop my Reagan cross and at least really listen…it will be a short time before I get that book..but perhaps the overt thieves, whoremongers, drug dealers, prostitutes are at least more or less what they are on the face where most of our political people, I have yet to see someone who can really hold up to standards and ethics that would make me want to follow them into hell.  Back in the day, if Ronald Reagan was in a devil’s suit and he opened a portal to hell and said “march into this now!”…I would have.  Long story short, my past experience is really best kept to me but I must admit that I often do not have the energy, enough push pins, maps and pictures and documentation to ferret through what happened versus what they say happened…just like Obama’s transparency, it is pretty clear that he is rather thick on the same shell game with a different logo thus far.
Someone always said that you cannot tell what is going to happen today until it is yesterday.  Certainly for George Bush, there is going to be such a study on what he really did if indeed the tracks have not been cleared.  It is funny but I would almost like an Al Capone to be running things because I can more or less read him at face than those who have two or more faces and sell whatever mask pleases the masses.
With Reagan, we still had a manufacturing base and after him, starting with G.H and going forward, our foundations were sold overseas by the few who could cash in on them.  So much for trickle down economics I would say.