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Date Posted: 10:20:50 12/05/03 Fri
Author: Sister Regina Dentata
Subject: Conservative Idol Worship - Reagan on the dime?

Saw this story on Yahoo, here's the address.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031205/ap_on_go_ot/reagan_dime_1

Does anyone noticed that the drive to get Reagan's name and face on everything looks and sounds a lot like those totalitarian countries were Fearless Leader, God Among Men has his image and statues everywhere? When he dies, will we all be forced to prostrate themselves in the direction of his California ranch, or be sent to Gitmo?

I especially love people that praise Reagan for him moral clarity neglect to mention him covering Saddam's ass in the 1980s, even after he gassed the Kurds in 1988. And sold weapons to Iran. That's getting chummy with 2/3s of the Axis O' Evil, folks. You would have though that having our support of the Shah bite us on the ass would have made us shy away from spoiled sociopathic dictators of the Middle East, but remember kids, it's not moral relativism when conservatives do it, it's realpolitik.

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Conservatives Want Reagan on Dimes
Fri Dec 5, 5:45 AM ET Add U.S. Government - AP to My Yahoo!

By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Conservative Republicans angry over an unflattering television movie about Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) want to put his image on the dime in place of Democratic icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Democrats are just as determined to keep FDR's profile in coin purses.

"If they want to find another way to honor Ronald Reagan, I'm happy to join with them, but leave the dime alone," said Rep. James McGovern, D-Mass.

Supporters of the "Ronald Reagan Dime Act" said Roosevelt and his government-expanding New Deal represented decades past, while Reagan's conservative, anti-communist administration ushered in society as it exists today.

Triggering the dispute is a TV movie that depicts a doddering Reagan dominated by his wife, Nancy. The movie is being aired by Showtime after CBS canceled its plans to show it last month in response to pressure by Reagan supporters.

"It's what precipitated me introducing the bill at that time and why it was a lot easier to get a lot of support," said Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind.

Souder said he has collected 89 co-sponsors for his bill to mint a new dime featuring Reagan. Among them are more than a dozen House members from California, where the former president lives secluded and suffering from Alzheimer's disease (news - web sites) in his Los Angeles home.

"I believe he represents conservative values as we would see them implemented through a president better than anybody else we've had in American history," Souder said. "He, to conservatives, represents kind of the reverse of FDR, who is kind of the liberal icon. Ronald Reagan is the conservative icon."

McGovern claims 80 co-sponsors on his opposing bill affirming Congress' support for keeping Roosevelt on the dime. The lone Republican among them is New York Rep. John Sweeney, who represents the Hyde Park area that was Roosevelt's home.

Reagan has "already been honored in many ways � he's got an airport named after him, and a building, and there are schools and roads and bridges and other things," McGovern said.

"While it's important to honor President Reagan, I think it's also important that we do so in a way that doesn't dishonor the memory and the legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt," he said.

It isn't uncommon to change images on currency, but the custom has been to wait until the person being memorialized is dead.

"I certainly would not look at it in any way as dishonoring FDR. He's also one of my favorite presidents," said Rep. Wally Herger, R-Calif. "He was also interestingly enough a personal hero of President Reagan's, but frankly I feel more connection with Reagan. He's a Californian, also closer to us now in history."

Souder rounded up support from colleagues for his bill with a letter, headed "Win One for the Gipper," that lambasted CBS for its "vile miniseries."

The dime has borne Roosevelt's profile since 1946, a year after his death, in part commemorating his support for the March of Dimes campaign to fight polio (news - web sites).

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Why don't they just go ahead and put Jesus on all the money? (NT) -- Queer, 01:47:23 12/06/03 Sat
I'd only support the dime change if the following image was stamped on the reverse -- Sister Regina Dentata, 07:03:01 12/07/03 Sun