Certainly Bush isn't as eloquent as Reagan was. Then again, neither is John Kerry. When Bush speaks, you often imagine Reagan might have said the same thing better. When Kerry speaks, you imagine Reagan would disagree--assuming he could even figure out what Kerry was saying.---Mark Steyn, Dutch Courage.

G&V were at the party, so they got more than we did yesterday, but because they didn't log them in time, right now it's more than a year till they catch up. Heh.

Sniff! The boys left. I apologized to Vince for not celebrating his birthday. I'm glad I have him, and I'm sure with the great parents he has that Eric will become as fine a man.

My law professor friend wrote from Oxford, where he is right now, and commented about the media circus over Reagan. The same people who tore him down while he was alive can't find enough words of praise now. Bill Quick has the same remarks, and more than once. Again. I gather he was a hero of Bill's. I've come around in the past years. I didn't vote for Reagan (both times I voted for the independent) and I swallowed a lot of the media portrayal, but as time passes, I can see the Reagan revolution for what it was.

Peggy Noonan.

John Fund: How Reagan, Thatcher, and JPII changed the world.

Jimmeh C.* apparently is Gore's "sore loser" model. Also, the press, such schmucks.

I've seen three Presidents... there was Kennedy, September 25, 1963. He came to Laramie and for his motorcade I may have been 3-4 people back. Really close. I also went to the speech. Then I took Vince and Bernadette out of school in (?)1986(?) to go to the State Capitol to see Reagan. We got off the bus and tried to get onto the grounds, not realizing they'd shut it off, so we went a block away and watched from the fountain. Then, of course, there was Slick Willy, in summer of '98. That's in order of admiration, too. I really loved JFK, was neutral about Reagan, and despise (still) Clinton.

* Which is a new nuclear sub.