Funny enough, I enjoyed Ike Udogu's piece until I also got to that statement on George W. Bush, Iraq, and the democracy that Americans are accused of taking for granted. I re-read it to be sure it was not devil's ink that beclouded my reading. I quickly shouted, "Haba!" I think Trump would be the only one who might probably agree with that declaration, not even the Bushes!
But, to Udogu's credit, the Tip O'neill and Ronald Reagan's allusion is so apt, when he wrote,
"take me back to the good old days of Speaker Tip O'neill (Democrat) and President Ronald Reagan (Republican)," when there was much comradeliness between members of the political parties."
And I agree snugly. That was the era of statesmanship, an age when a popular President and a charismatic Speaker from two opposing parties would disagree vehemently at joint public meetings, and would afterwards go to have coffee or wine together in the evening of the same day as if nothing ever happened two hours earlier between them.
MOA
On Tuesday, July 2, 2024 at 09:08:44 AM EDT, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
Great man:
Would it be possible to remove the sentence below from your piece:
Elsewhere, I wrote an opinion in which I alerted Americans that they are taking this great democracy, that President George W. Bush sent troops to Iraq to promote during the era of Saddam Hussein, for granted.
The war in Iraq was not about democracy. You are now becoming like Trump!!!
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