NP: Actors, Politicians

[Ian Livingston]

Are you kidding?  Cheney is doing a bang-up job of imitating a lame duck
while he engineers another financial coup in the desert.  Best actor we've
ever had in office.  Worst human, best actor.  Calls to mind Scarsdale Vibe
for me.

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> Reagan was as bad a president as actor.
> Nixon was a pretty good president, but a rather bad person, and an actor
> even worse than Reagan.
> Johnson was bigger than life; Humphrey wasn't.
> Bush is a bad actor, and Cheney doesn't/didn't even try.  Whatever became
> of
> Dick?
>
> We've seen actors become politicians; have there been any politicians who
> have become actors?  (Saying they all are would be a cheap shot, so I won't
> say it.)
>
> HENRY MUSIKAR
> Information, Media, and Technology Consultant
>
> http://www.urdomain.us/scuffling.htm
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Joe Allonby on Tuesday
> Subject: Re: Dick Martin Octogenarihexated
>
> Reagan's only program was "Death Valley Days".
>
> All of the others were Dick Cheney's.
>
>
> ...and they're now in reruns.
>
> On Mon, Michael Bailey wrote:
> yeah, he was a funny guy! Loved that show...
>
> from the obit:
> "Stars such as John Wayne and Kirk Douglas were delighted to make
> brief appearances, and even Richard Nixon, running for president in
> 1968, dropped in to shout a befuddled sounding, "Sock it to me!" His
> opponent, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, was offered equal time but
> declined because his handlers thought it would appear undignified."
> <snip>
>
>
>
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