My friend Chris introduced me to McSweeney’s periodicals back in college. He still buys the print versions, but I just occasionally visit their site. Today I found their Daily List of Reasons to Dispatch Bush. They’re all pretty damning, but this is my favorite quote so far from my new hero, Ronald Reagan Jr.:
“The former president’s son has voiced his criticism of the Bush administration in the past. In 2000, at a Republican convention in Philadelphia, he asked of Bush: “What’s his accomplishment? That he’s no longer an obnoxious drunk?”
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In addition, during an interview with Salon.com, he said, “The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he’s in now. Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the 80’s. But the overall thrust of this administration in not my father’s — these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive and just plain corrupt. I don’t trust these people.”