Sadly, I was on appointments during the afternoon and evening of Reagan’s funeral (the final one) back at the Library, and only caught pieces of it later in various recaps.

The clips I saw from Ron Reagan Jr’s moving eulogy to his father, however, certainly jumped out at me, and I had intended to try and review the transcript in full before posting to make certain that what I thought I’d heard, I actually did hear.

And it seems I heard correctly. Ronny took a not-in-anyway veiled shot at the current “President” in this passage:

Message received.

As the story on the controversy stirred by his remarks in today’s NY Times points out, young Reagan has been much more pointed in the past, as he was when he referred to the boy Bush after a Reagan Tribute at the 2000 Republican Convention when he said: “What’s his accomplishment? That he’s no longer an obnoxious drunk?”

Ouch. And then again in a Salon.com interview a few years ago:

Reagan’s daughter Patti was equally unequivocal about the mis-comparisons between Reagan and Bush Jr. when she opined to Newsweek:

None the less, it won’t stop the Right from doing whatever they can to gain personal political benefit from the dead man they claim to admire, as Newt Gingrich made clear in the Times piece:

There has been no explanation so far for Newt’s ability to receive Divine Messages from his dead hero. None the less, let the piranhic scavenging press on…