Ronald Reagan was a terrible president and human being

[Sandpiper]

And his death hasn't changed that in the least bit. Death doesn't transform a vile person into a good one.

[JVS]

1. Amen

When they bury him they'll be putting him where he belongs

[evil_orange_cat]

10. Amen!

maybe I'll get to travel to the cemetary so I can piss on his grave...

[LiberalFighter]

12. Can weeds and very obnoxious weeds be planted...

that are impossible to remove?

[HEyHEY]

13. As a former gardener

horsetail.

But you didn't hear it from me.

[HEyHEY]

2. It's not him - it's us

We're supposed to be better than the way we're behaving. I don't want to get in a flamewar with ya - so that's just what I think.

[physioex]

3. What made him most dangerous...

Was his ability to charm people with his persnality and commanding presence. During his years as a president, he enjoyed overwhelming popluarity and could never be nailed down for his corruption. The same thing is true for Bunnypants, except it is not his charming personality but rather a complicit House, Senate, and media....

[mw]

4. Mourning in America

I'm already getting a little tired of the non-stop Reagasm going on in the news.

I think he should be honored, he was a president (unlike Bush II), so let's get to it. But it's getting a bit old already.

[Sandpiper]

5. Reagan should be accorded all the honors

That any deceased President would receive. But good grief. Let's stop trying to make the guy out to be Abraham Lincoln or FDR.

[mitchum]

6. Absolutely! Death does not ennoble a stupid and destructive man

[shraby]

7. When people keep bringing up Reagan

threads they are acknowledging the fact that he lived. Let's forget he lived and get on with bashing Bush. Bush is the one that counts now.

[crossroads]

If there be Karma, he will be upgraded from vegetable to fruit...

:eyes:

[crossroads]

8. If there be Karma, he will be upgraded from vegetable to fruit...

:eyes:

[madmax]

9. Greg Palast on Reagn: KILLER, COWARD, CON-MAN

KILLER, COWARD, CON-MAN GOOD RIDDANCE, GIPPER ...
MORE PROOF ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG
Sunday, June 6, 2004 by Greg Palast

You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to.

Ronald Reagan was a conman. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer.
In 1987, I found myself stuck in a crappy little town in Nicaragua named Chaguitillo. The people were kind enough, though hungry, except for one surly young man. His wife had just died of tuberculosis.

People don't die of TB if they get some antibiotics. But Ronald Reagan, big hearted guy that he was, had put a lock-down embargo on medicine to Nicaragua because he didn't like the government that the people there had elected.

Ronnie grinned and cracked jokes while the young woman's lungs filled up and she stopped breathing. Reagan flashed that B-movie grin while they buried the mother of three.

More: http://www.gregpalast.com/

[NMDemDist2]

14. Palast has it right

snip> And all the while, in the White House basement, as his brain boiled away, his last conscious act was to condone a coup d'etat against our elected Congress. Reagan's Defense Secretary Casper the Ghost Weinberger with the crazed Colonel, Ollie North, plotted to give guns to the Monster of the Mideast, Ayatolla Khomeini.

Reagan's boys called Jimmy Carter a weanie and a wuss although Carter wouldn't give an inch to the Ayatolla. Reagan, with that film-fantasy tough-guy con in front of cameras, went begging like a coward cockroach to Khomeini pleading on bended knee for the release of our hostages.

Ollie North flew into Iran with a birthday cake for the maniac mullah -- no kidding --in the shape of a key. The key to Ronnie's heart.

Then the Reagan roaches mixed their cowardice with crime: taking cash from the hostage-takers to buy guns for the "contras" - the drug-runners of Nicaragua posing as freedom fighters.

I remember as a student in Berkeley the words screeching out of the bullhorn, "The Governor of the State of California, Ronald Reagan, hereby orders this demonstration to disperse" … and then came the teargas and the truncheons. And all the while, that fang-hiding grin from the Gipper. <snip ibid

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[Rex]

11. Some people believe you shouldnt speak ill of the dead.

Me, if someone was evil in life then they don't get immunity just because they died.