Still doesn't make him a great man. The point being that the line from the speech which was being used to deify him was written by someone else - not his words, so I fail to see how the fact that he spoke them gives him any creds at all.
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > As a filmmaker, I'm sure you are quite aware that making a film has > little to do with making a speech to an audience. The skills of a good > orator are more closely compared to those of stage actors and film > actors generally have a lot of respect for stage actors. Obviously, > being a good stage actor doesn't mean you would be a good President. I > also have never said that I thought that Reagan was a good President > (quite the contrary actually). However, the skills of a stage actor > (and to some extent a film actor) can be put to great use as a > President. Reagan was a good orator. You may not agree with the > policies he was pushing (I usually didn't) but he was effective in > selling them because he really was a good orator. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323681 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
