Lessons from Past Primaries

[H2O Man]

5. Well said!

I lived near my home town of Sidney, NY, at the time. I remember the media reports that Grenada was building a huge airstrip -- with the help of Cubans -- that posed a threat to the US. Yet Sidney, population 5,000, had a larger airstrip at its tiny airport.

Of course, Maurice Bishop was a scary socialist! Yikes! A man who was known to have "partied" with Eric Clapton! I still have trouble sleeping at night, just thinking of how close to the edge we were. Surely that dwarfs the Cuban Missile Crisis.

And, of course, the US intelligence operation to make it appear that communists were taking over the island! If communists controlled the nutmeg supply, life on Earth would have surely ended.


Reagan had less substance than any one of the red, white, or blue balloons that were used in his commercials. I had thought that it was impossible that America would elect someone worse than Nixon to the highest office in the land. I was repulsed that a cartoon cowboy could actually be re-elected. The ability to create "images" had trumped substance. That ability remains one of the most powerful forces in politics today.