Why is there a statue of Reagan?

[question everything]

Are there statues of every former president? A deceased one, like Ford, for example? or Truman?

[emilyg]

1. All these have statues

1 George Washington
2 John Adams
3 Thomas Jefferson
4 James Madison
5 James Monroe
6 John Quincy Adams
7 Andrew Jackson
8 Martin Van Buren
9 William Henry Harrison
10 John Tyler
11 James K. Polk
12 Zachary Taylor
13 Millard Fillmore
14 Franklin Pierce
15 James Buchanan
16 Abraham Lincoln
17 Andrew Johnson
18 Ulysses S. Grant
19 Rutherford B. Hayes
20 James A. Garfield
21 Chester A. Arthur
22 Grover Cleveland
23 Benjamin Harrison
24 Grover Cleveland
25 William McKinley
26 Theodore Roosevelt
27 William Howard Taft
28 Woodrow Wilson
29 Warren G. Harding
30 Calvin Coolidge
31 Herbert Hoover
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt
33 Harry S Truman
34 Dwight Eisenhower
35 John F. Kennedy
36 Lyndon B. Johnson
37 Richard Nixon
38 Gerald Ford
39 Jimmy Carter
40 Ronald Reagan
41 George Bush
42 Bill Clinton
43 George W. Bush

[question everything]

2. Thanks. I don't remember revealing them being such

a major news event..

[classysassy]

9. #43

one for the birds.

[WinkyDink]

19. Where?!

[Avalux]

3. There's a gigantic one of Lincoln. And Washington, et al.

Yes there are statues.

That doesn't mean we should have one of Reagan though. Entirely different quetion.

[nevergiveup]

4. It doesn't mean much

There is also a statue in Washington D.C. of President James Buchanan.

[blueclown]

5. One more urinal in Washington D.C. n/t

[Adsos Letter]

6. To give the pigeons something constructive to do. n/t

[emilyg]

11. That they do.

[DBoon]

7. come the revolution

we get to tear it down

[gauguin57]

8. Graven image/golden idol at the feet of which the Republicans can worship and grovel.

Ugh.

[Historic NY]

10. Thank God only a few VP's got them......imagine a Dick in the rotunda.

[Skink]

12. Caligula commissioned lots of stuff..

Especially statues.

[Duer 157099]

13. So that Boehner knows what to aspire to

in the Bronze department

[craigmatic]

14. because the republicans who commissioned it have a reagan fetish.

They're stuck in the past and love the 80's more than VH1.

[SamCooke]

15. I hope u saw Bill Maher tonight. DL Hughley said it perfect

[Blue_In_AK]

18. Was it on Bill Maher or Bill Moyers tonight

that Jeremy Scahill said something about Reagan's statue being pulled down like the statue of Saddam Hussein was. Seemed like an appropriate comment to me. Or was it DL who said that? It was a quick passing comment, but I liked it.

[SamCooke]

20. DL said it. Ronald Reagan said some of the most insensitive things than any POTUS in recent memory.

Every now and then someone will give me a Reagan quote and I'll have to look it up just to make sure he said it. The man really didn't seem to care about poor people at all.

But u bring his name up to a Republican and their face just lights up. They love the guy. I know Obama hated to sign that Reagan thing he signed last wk.

[TahitiNut]

16. Maybe Nancy wouldn't let them use the body??

:shrug:

[Lint Head]

17. He was a 'stiff' as President. He almost looks alive.

Except for the tan.:dem:

[undeterred]

21. There is a group that wants monuments to Reagan in every county.

Its alright with me as long as they are placed in the county dog parks... where they can be appropriately "marked" on a daily basis. :evilgrin:

[Arkana]

22. So all right-wingers can go to DC and bow and worship before it?