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From: faustus@ucbvax.UUCP (Wayne Christopher)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: My fellow Americans,
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Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 01:55:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 20 01:55:51 1984
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Sure, the statement WAS a joke, but that's not the point.  The
point is that Reagan has the sort of outlook on things that
leads him to make jokes like this.  I don't think it is a very
funny joke, and I think that most rational people wouldn't say
something like that, no matter how humorously thay mean it to be
taken.  It's like some of the really disgusting jokes you
sometimes see in net.jokes, like "What's the difference between
a Jew and a pizza?  The pizza doesn't scream when you put it
into the oven."  When I see jokes like this, I don't get quite
as upset, because I know that the person who thinks it's funny
is probably some psychotic who gets his kicks from torturing
puppies. Now, if I knew that he was in fact a famous doctor or
statesman or something like that, I would be upset. It's like
that with Reagan and his "joke". Just because "he wasn't really
serious, just kidding around a bit" doesn't make it any less
significant.

	Wayne