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32. Yeah...I've read about that. (Edited)

Sun Apr 20, 2014, 08:06 PM

Apr 2014

Reagan had an interesting history, if nothing else. A classic "speaks out of both sides of his mouth" type.

My dad was CIA and joined (or rather was recruited) in the mid fifties. He knew and was friends with many who were victims of the McCarthy era.

I think that time was one of the reasons, if not the primary reason the remark made by Michelle Bachmann a while back about investigating Congress for being "Un-American" was ridiculed so widely and ignored rather comprehensively. (sorry I left out the last part of that thought before I posted!)

""I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America?"

Statement made to Chris Matthews, back in '08

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Yeah...I've read about that. (Edited) A HERETIC I AM Apr 2014 #32

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