![]() To me, the most compelling of the Black Ops offerings was always the campaign, which used historical and futuristic time periods to serve as canvasses for lots of shooting and occasionally wacky storytelling. However, I'd be lying if I said that dumb-child version of me lurking in my psyche didn't stir a little when Reagan gave orders to my team and me during a cinematic sequence in Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War, another double-bacon, double-patty cheeseburger of a first-person shooter experience that gives players more than might ever want - or need - in their quest to feed bullets to enemies and each other. My viewpoints, education and awareness of Reagan's real-life triumphs and failures have evolved since then, as many years have passed. In the era of Rambo, Delta Force and Hulkamania, Reagan was the president, placing him, in my young mind, at the head of some pop culture table with an American flag carved into it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once upon a time, I thought Ronald Reagan was the coolest president.Īs a child growing up in the '80s, well before I learned about things like Reagonomics and modern conservatism, little-kid me knew him simply as the guy people called Ronnie Ray-Gun, the leader of the free world with a distinct voice who was both cool enough for local stations to imitate with rap parodies and badass enough to park an aircraft carrier near the shores of anyone who even looked at America the wrong way. ![]()
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