Was out in the Simi Valley area for a junior high graduation and the crowds were already lining the freeway at 1:30. There is a picture on Yahoo that captures it completely. Crowds that completely stopped the freeway and covered the hill. Bill Quick has a great shot of the crowd leading up to the cemetary from the freeway. The post grad party with twenty or so adults were all talking admiringly about Reagan and had been talking to their kids about him. We have all learned a lot about our 40th president this week. Totally different than the viciously lying press had ever told us. I'll bet Reagan books dominate Amazon this weekend.

Several emailers have suggested that you need to understand the 1966 race for governor of California to really "get" Reagan. This is the race where he was viciously attacked for being an actor..."he's an actor and you know who killed Lincoln don't you?"---His opponent, Pat Brown, spoken to a child. The only known book is "The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics" by Matthew Dallek; criticized for stiff writing.

You could do a lot worse than reading Peter Schweizer's "Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism". Many of the other books, like his letters, suffer from rushed editorial practices that don't "fill out" certain subjects even though the material was available.

The bad news for Bush out of this graduation party talk is that almost all commented regarding his seeming lack of any authority in government, his failure to fire people, and the fact that everybody who leaves trashes him. This funeral only serves to remind everyone how lacking in basic communication skills our current president is.

And as all of us now know, the no class Clintons both appeared to have "nodded off" for National TV, showing publicly their contempt. Naturally the best large photo of the snoozers is HERE. However FOX has a picture of the same two people appearing to be sleeping in a much wider frame context. It appears that they are standing. paragraph is false. They were not sleeping

See the LA Times shot from another angle to include 20 other people. They were caught looking like they were sleeping. I'm inclined to cut the Clintons some slack here. Nobody in the picture looks good. Don't rush to judgement. Looks like a Right Wing hit piece without checking. They were NOT sleeping.