Remembering George and Joe

George led a movement that has affected millions around the world, as did Joe. George and Joe are long gone, George more so than Joe. The former's birthday is remembered fondly, but not officially. The latter was denounced officially, but not in life.

George was responsible for the deaths of thousands--invaders and tyrants all. Joe ordered that millions should die--farmers and teachers and all others who opposed Joe's cumbersome ideology. Ideology was simple for George and harmless to his fellow countrymen-freedom.

For centuries now generations have prayed for the return of a man like George Washington...

Almost ten years after Joseph Stalin died Yevgeni Yevtushenko published a poem in the communist party newspaper: Heirs of Stalin ends this way...

Grimly clenching his embalmed fists, just pretending to be dead, he
watched from inside. He was scheming. He had merely dozed off.

And I, appealing to our government, petition them to double, and
treble, the sentries guarding the slab, and stop Stalin from ever rising
again.

Those words were published in 1962, about the time Ronald Reagan warned the American people against socialized, government-controlled health care: Reagan would switch his party allegiance from Democrat to Republican that same year.

Ronald Reagan is as close to George Washington as we have come...

Barrack Obama is as close to Joseph Stalin as we want to get...