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June 06, 2004
A BUMP FOR THE BONEHEAD?
The trouble with the death of Ronald Reagan is that, whatever else it means, it will give our White House bonehead a ceremonial stage to play statesman in mourning for the rest of the week until Reagan's burial. Will that get the bonehead a bump in the polls? We think so. When he pays blustering lip service to the noble ideals that Reagan symbolizes for many (too many) Americans, the catch in his voice and the teary-eyed show of sentimental patriotism are liable to score him undeserved points. Watch the bonehead perform, in Shakespeare's words, "... like a strutting player, whose conceit / Lies in his hamstring and doth think it rich / To hear the wooden dialogue ..."
Posted by at June 6, 2004 01:36 AM
