THIS is for all the self-righteously phony freepers lurking here today

[rumguy]

I've seen it already on conservative websites. You are crying and whining about us not showing enough "respect". I think many on DU are being damn generous today.

I want to show you some freeper statements relating to Wellstone's death. Mind you, I found these on a single thread and pulled all but one off the first page! They weren't hard to find. I spent like two minutes on this.

I just want you asswipe freepers to KNOW most of you LIVE in fuckin' glass houses.

"To the rest of us, he was a traitor to the Constitution and a threat to the welfare of his fellow citizen.

7 posted on 10/25/2002 2:18:31 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny"

A BUNCH OF FREEPTARDS 'AMENED' TO THIS POST:
"And socialist, gun-grabbing, welfare, and partial-birth baby killer. Good people.

Excuse me if I don't shed a tear.

18 posted on 10/25/2002 5:17:28 PM PDT by Mordoch"

"'Excuse me if I don't shed a tear.'

I'm with you on this, shame he died, blah, blah, blah...

But the guy epitomized everything I despise in a Rat politician...

26 posted on 10/25/2002 5:36:22 PM PDT by Geronimo"

"My comment on Paul Wellstoned on another thread has already been pulled. But this article tells you all you need to know about how great a 'tragedy' his untimely death was. He was a socialist, a liar, and an enemy of freedom.

34 posted on 10/25/2002 5:44:44 PM PDT by Faraday"

TO BE FAIR THERE WERE A FEW DECENT FREEPERS:
"I find some responses today pretty repulsive. A very decent MAN died today, along with his wife and daughter (and others).

98 posted on 10/25/2002 8:45:07 PM PDT by JLO"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/775899/posts?q=1&&page=51


So hey, let's all try and be better than these loathsome freepers.

[Dookus]

1. Yup

there are assholes on both side of the spectrum.

I'm ashamed of ours.

[Endangered Specie]

12. I never realised how many tasteless classless assholes there

are on DU, Im sickened. I always figured there would be a few, thats unavoidable in any group, but not as many as have been unearthed today.

[BeFree]

17. 8 long years of Reagan

Those long awful years living with him as the President, was, for those who had to live through them, a gawd-awful time. The passing of the figurehead of those awful years is bound to relase some pent-up frustartion. Be tolerant. Be liberal. Allow them to blow some steam.

Or, just continue your bitching and calling them assholes. Whatever. BeFree.

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. Me too. And amazed that some of them are people I get along

with and respected. :(

[Momof1]

2. But we are suppose to be better than them

I didn't like Reagan one bit. But the man has a family. A family in mourning right now.

We are not freepers!!! We are not unkind. If we see a hurt kitten we pick the damn thing up. Not kick it across the room.

[rumguy]

4. I totallly agree

Let's not be like the freeptards!!!

[RapidCreek]

23. Reagan is a hurt kitten? Yea, so was Joe McCarthy right?

So the hell what if he has a family? I have a family too....and my family has suffered and is suffering enourmously for the erosion of our Democracy that your great and wonderful Rompin Ronny Raygun began.

Speak for yourself....I am not a Freeper....that is true. But I am unkind to those who hate me, try to kill me, under employ me, underpay me, and suggest that medical care is a priveledge and not a right, sell arms and ammunition to terrorists, commit treason....etc, etc,. I'll be unkind to their memory as well. What the hell has Reagans family to do with anything? If they want to mourn his death, that's certainly their right. If I want to do something else it is mine.

Frankly, I wish the fucker would have lived for eternity, and suffered the collective misery he has caused so many every day of that eternity. His fucking family sure as hell won't.

RC

[ScreamingMeemie]

31. His family will remember the day when he didn't know them anymore

RC...and that's about it. No amount of money will ever make that right. All he was to them was a Dad, one they didn't get along with a lot of the time because of differing ideologies (go figure). Think of your dad. Did you agree with every damn thing he did in his life? Now think of him not recognizing you anymore. Which hurts worse?There are many of us who have suffered not being recognized. Give it a rest already.

[Kipepeo]

33. Thank you

I can't believe how insensitive this place feels is today.

[banana republican]

39. My dad died when I was 12

I would give anything to talk about idiologies; and to disagree with him in a discussion; but it won't happen.

Does he recognize me now?????

I think Not.

What hurts worse???

The adoration of a person who started the fall of the America.

[Walt Starr]

3. This is precisely why I won't shed a tear

and will gleefully celebrate with a backyard barbecue and a bottle of wine tonight.

After Wellstone's death, there is no reason to demonstrate any respect for an evil fuck like Ronald Reagan.

[Dookus]

6. basing

your behavior on that of the Freepers is the low road to take.

[Walt Starr]

7. Taking the high road

put Bush in office.

Taking the High Road lost us the Senate in 2002.

Fuck the high road.

[Dookus]

10. yeah

it's made you so happy. You just exude the warm-fuzzies.

[Walt Starr]

14. I haven't been this happy since Clinton won in '92

and only seeing Bush beaten will make me happier!

[PVnRT]

15. Walt's not interested in warm-fuzzies

He is better than you, therefore anything he does is OK.

Besides, you and I are just closet freepers anyway.

[TNMOM]

19. amen to that!

Ronnie was a dipstick. It would be unpatriotic and dishonest to not point that out.

[ScreamingMeemie]

34. Yes, show yourself to be no better than the lowest of the low.

That's a fine idea. :(

[LTR]

5. I won't slam Reagan today

But I feel this thread should stay unlocked.

Let this be an example.

[blm]

8. Thankyou for your humanity.

It' appreciated.

[Endangered Specie]

9. Define Hypocracy:

Bash Freepers for being classless and tastless at the death of Wellstone, then to subsqeuently do the same thing at the death of Reagan.

[RapidCreek]

24. Yea really...it's almost as bad as bashing Freepers for

being classless and tastless at the death of Wellstone....then to do the same thing at the death of Hitler, Stalin, Joe McCarthy or some other fine salwart of peace and love.

RC

[diamond14]

11. try this approach...a letter in memory of reaguns great (?!?) presidency..

all DUers...try to do something positive....getting these records open can take down the entire BFEE (bush family evil empire)...the records also will show info about those trips that rumsfeld took to meet saddam hussein and bring saddam chemical weapons and open up diplomatic ties with Iraq right after saddam used those weapons (all under reaguns and VP pappy bush)...so smile, and get the records open...THAT will destroy bush*'s war....

________________________________________


Dear Senator John Warner:

We must now open the reagan Presidential records and HONOR his work. This president means so much to the people of the United States. It is long past due that we have the opportunity to examine and learn from the records of this President. Please help us, Senator Warner, to open these records and HONOR reagan.

Thank you for any effort you make to honor President reagun by opening his records. It would certainly be a proper tribute to President reagan.

sincerely, your constituent....AMEN1234

[buycitgo]

41. POST OF the WEEKEND!!!!!!!!! BY FAR!

LOL, too!!!

thx for that one

your idea?

[Supply Side Jesus]

13. Wellstone has no influence on my celebration of RR death.

That son of a bitch waged a war on labor unions and laborers his eight years in office. The city I grew up in suffered heavily under RR polices. Growing up in a family of 4 with a father who couldn't make ends meet because thousands of others were looking for work also, life to say, was very hard. My father lost 3 friends to suicide after they lost their jobs, their family, house, self-respect. Those good men would be alive if it wasn't for RR. I have as much sympathy for him as I had for Ted Bundy or any other murderer who met his doom. Fuck RR, fuck that Son of a bitch for eternity.

[Kanary]

16. Thank you so muich for your honesty!

Where was (and IS) the empathy and caring for the hundreds of thousands who killed themselves because of The Evil One? To this day, the caring for those who could no longer go on is almost completely missing.

When the day comes that those people are properly remembered and honored, then I'll feel differently about the one who did that to them.

Kanary

[MrsMatt]

18. call me a Pollyanna

but I have to believe there is some good in everyone. And for those of you who scoff at that notion, remember that even Hitler loved his dog.

Let the poor man rest in peace.

[mopaul]

20. Will Pitt lets the Truthout here.............

Don't feel like apologizing for how you feel re: Reagan? Post here.


A lot of people got into politics because of John Kennedy, or because they wanted to fight for justice in the civil rights cause. That entrance to politics was a positive one.

A lot of people got into politics because of Vietnam, or because Bobby got killed, or because MLK got killed, or because of Watergate. These were negative entrances into politics, borne of a need to stop outrages before they swamped the body politic.

Ronald Reagan was my entrance into politics, and it was a negative entrance. I remember very vividly this President telling me that my generation would be the one to face the apocalypse, a statement that was one of the most defining moments in my life. I lived under a cloud of fear after that.

My work in politics, for my whole life, has been in the majority an effort to undo the massive damage from the disaster that was the Reagan administration.

Our mainstream media journalism is a joke because of Reagan dereguation.

Our social programs were savaged because of Reagan.

Our environmental regulations, once something to be proud of, were eviscerated by Reagan.

The manifest power of corporations over virtually every facet of our lives came because of the massive deregulations put forth by Reagan.

The AIDS virus found a long, comfortable home in America because Reagan couldn't be bothered with funding research into 'gay cancer.'

Crack owned the urban world, wracked by the aforementioned social evisceration, for years because Reagan couldn't be bothered. Whole generations of Americans died in misery because he couldn't have gven a damn about their problems.

Saddam Hussein was a creation, in huge part, of Reagan.

Same goes for Osama bin Laden, who along with al Qaeda and the Taliban went from being a side project under Carter to a front-and-center priority that led directly to the attacks of September 11, not to mention the African embassy bombings. Those two embassies were destroyed with Semtex sold to Afghan mujeheddin (nee Taliban and al Qaeda) by the Reagan administration.

Dick Cheney was a Reagan creature.

Don Rumsfeld was a Reagan creature.

Paul Wolfowitz was a Reagan creature.

Richard Perle was a Reagan creature.

John Negroponte was a Reagan creature.

Elliot Abrams was a Reagan creature.

Dick Armitage was a Reagan creature.

There was some other guy named George, who spawned an idiot named George, who also came out of the Reagan administration.

If you cannot make the direct 2+2=4 connection between the legacy of the Reagan administration and the goddam intractible swamp we slog through every day today, then I despair of your ability to follow coherent logic.

Am I happy Reagan is dead? No.

Do I have a moment of doubt as to whether or not I should speak the truth of him to as many people as I can reach with my arm? I have not one single moment of doubt.

I'm sorry you feel bad because I don't feel bad enough about this, that I am perhaps being 'disrespectful.' Ronald Reagan was my entrance into politics, and it was an ugly, frightening entrance. The Reagan legacy has been a stain across our national landscape, and my life's work to date has been the process of trying to staunch the bleeding.

If you think I'm going to back off because he's dead, think again. If you don't like it, there's a nifty little 'x' next to this thread. Hit it.

Otherwise, speak the truth here and the Devil take the hindmost.

[KoKo]

27. He was in many ways a "puppet" like Bush II. He was "personable."

That's the only thing I can say positive about the man. I agree with Pitt on this. He carried on Nixon's policies and allowed the weeds that started then to grow into flower and gave us the evils of Bush I and II and and their cronies we suffer under today.

I have no feeling for the man as a President or a human being. As an actor he was "okay."

[drb]

21. Self-righteous, phony and freeper....

Isn't that a little overly redundant?

[OneTwentyoNine]

22. Bump this to the top.....nt

[rumguy]

25. I hate freepers!

[ContinentalOp]

26. cheers!

:toast:

[playahata1]

28. I repeat:

As long as the conservatives and fascists continue to disrespect liberals and other progressives, liberals and other progressives should conservatives and fascists a dose of their own medicine for a change.

What has the "high road" gotten liberals and other progressives? Nowhere. I will not remain silent, because of what this man and the people he has enabled have done to this country. I refuse to remain silent when my grandparents have suffered due to Reagans's policies (my grandfather losing his job in 1986 after 32 years of faithful service, Social Security and Medicare benefits that are a mere pittance compared to what my grandfather was making on his job, their only child -- my mother -- catching hell trying to help them stay above water at the end of each month). I will not shut up when my community has been devastated by the illegal drug trade and its effects. I will not be quiet, because AIDS research and treatment would have been further along than it is had it not been for Reagan's lack of compassion and empathy for gay people. I refuse to cower to his memory, especially when he considered African Americans and other people of color less than full human beings.

I do not care what the right wing thinks of what I have to say. I do not fit into Reagan's vision of what being an American should be, so why should I afford him and anyone else associated with him any kind of deference and respect? He had not shown the same to me and others who did not fit in with his and his cohorts' vision of America.

[chookie]

29. Paul Wellstone would be proud of you

Not.

[rumguy]

32. I'm not calling on people to behave like freepers, I'm

trying to get them to not act them...

:shrug:

[PaDUer]

35. We're entitled to

our opinions. If you continue this, you will continue to let them shit on you! Plus, we're not threatening bodily damage or violence as freepers do!!

[rumguy]

36. fuck you Sully!

[LoZoccolo]

37. Are you saying I'm a FReeper?

:hi: :nuke:

[flaminbats]

38. Will freepers mourn for a Democrat?

Driving down 141 in Georgia today it was shocking to see how few businesses had lowered their flags to half staff in honor of Ronald Reagan! I put my flag up at half staff, a flag I usually only put out on national holidays or on days like this. But the worst part was passing the GE building near the 285, 141 intersection...even GE was flying the flag at full mast. That's corporate loyalty for you!

People flying the largest flags often believe they are the most patriotic among us. But in a nation of Republicanism and corporatism, honor is measured only by profits and ruthlessness.

[buycitgo]

40. puff piece

ha

excellent thread, btw

don't know what sort of masochistic streak overtook me today, but I kept tuning in to the ubiquitous hagiocrap on TV today.....maybe it's incipient PSD, but it's everywhere

thanks for the antidote