JFK is dead...MLK is dead...RR is dead....All great men are dead....

[kentuck]

and I'm not feeling too good myself.

But let me be the first to give you a headline for next week.

REAGAN IS STILL DEAD.

Let us not lose our humanity, otherwise we have lost all.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. "RR" was not a great man.

:eyes:

[rumguy]

2. Reagan was wrong about a lot of things

but I don't see him in the same vein as Shrub, Limbaugh and Hannity...

[Forkboy]

3. Biggest joke post ever

comparing MLK to Reagan is an insult to anyone with a brain.

[NoPasaran]

4. The only "great" thing about Reagan

was the great amount of damage he did to this country.

Nixon finally has someone new to talk to in Hell.

[meg]

5. RR was large in frame and small of heart and mind

Not a great man and not a good man

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. There is no way that RR can be grouped with either JFK or MLK...

...or any other great man, IMHO. But, based on your posting history, I'm not surprised that you tried to make that association.

[kentuck]

11. As usual....

You never get past the headline.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

14. As usual, you never post anything to "get past".

[kentuck]

16. "Let us not lose our humanity, otherwise we have lost all. "

I think that must have gotten past you???? I have no idea what your game is but I don't trust it and I've been here long enough to read the posts fairly well...

[Media_Lies_Daily]

18. You don't trust my game??? WTF does that mean? And who cares?...

Your quote didn't get "past" me in any way, shape, or form, friend. The quote just doesn't mean very much when applied to a guy like Reagan.

One more comment...you better wake the hell up. The rightwingers mean to take everything we have, and in the process, they lost their "humanity" decades ago.

I have no respect for Ronald Reagan the man or the president. He helped ruin quite a few careers in Hollywood during the McCarthy Era, and his policies as president resulted in the deaths of thousands upon thousands of Central Americans. Do you see any "humanity" in any of that?

[kentuck]

20. Here....

Let me slap you about three times and wake you up. There...are you OK now? The post was a simple attempt at humor with the message about humanity. I don't give a shit if you respect Ronald Reagan or not. Just don't try to spread your bullshit over everyone else's garden....
Some of us will try to maintain a little "humanity" for our own sakes, not for you.

[Kanary]

24. Your "humanity" is showing

as you verbally describe physical violence on another.

Have you caught your own disconnect yet?

Kanary

[FleshCartoon]

13. I don't know about the posting history of Kentuck, but...

...there is no comparison to JFK or MLK. Reagan was a puppet who knew where to hit his marks and remembered the lines they fed him. When he said, "I don't remember." during the Iran Contra Hearings, that wasn't the onset of his Alzheimer's--those were also lines he'd been fed.

[H2O Man]

7. I do not think

that it would be an accurate use of the word "great" to apply it to Reagan. I think he was significant, because of the role he played. The fact alone that he was president makes him noteworthy. But great is something distinct from noteworthy. I'm curious what DUers think were his most positive attributes (the short list) and his negative qualities?

[Zorra]

8. Lots of people will die today.

Good people who did good things during their lives.

I will think of them today.

I'll try not to think about what Ronald Reagan did to my country.

What does someone do in their life in order to be considered "great"?

[TriMetFan]

9. Here are couple of Great men.

Jimmy Carter : a fighter for Peace and works for the poor plus equal rights.

But "The Greatest President" of the last 44 years is:

William J. Clinton

[ikojo]

10. For those who did not live through the 80s as a young adult

trying to go to school, you cannot know how truly evil Reagan was. He is what set the stage for #41 and #43. Without Reagan neither of those administrations would have happened.

Reagan did not cause the collapse of communism. What he did was encourage deficit spending so that the Soviet Union would be forced to continue spending large sums on weapons. They basically spent themselves into bankruptcy. The war in Afghanistan did not help either.

He has alzheimers. Many, many Americans, some without access to health insurance, have this dreaded disease. Suddenly it's a crisis when an evil man has the disease. In Reagan's case it is called KARMA.

It seems that Nancy Reagan truly loved that man. I feel for her but am not sad to see him gone.

[Nevernose]

17. They don't teach it that way in foreign countries

Russin military spending wasn't based on American military spending; they essentially dropped out of the arms race by 1972 or so. Our military spending was more about propping up the military/industrial complex and being able to threaten any third world nation we wanted than "winning the Cold War." The Russian economic model was flawed, a flaw held over from the days of Stalin.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

19. The Soviet-Afghan War was the financial death knell of the USSR.

[mandyky]

12. Don't forget Bobby!!

RFK was also a great man, and unfortunately we lost him before he won the white house, much like we lost Paul Wellstone before he was re-elected.

[Maeve]

15. Right along with Generalisimo Francisco Franco

But Jimmy Carter is alive and so is Nelson Mandela and a few others who might qualify as "great".

Not to lose perspective, either...

[camero]

21. Moral of the story

Only the good die young.

[Kanary]

22. I'm incensed to see JFK and MLK in the same list as Raygun

The first two gave much to their country, often at great cost to themselves.

Raygun, as typical of the Reich Wing, took, and took, and took, and took..

and KILLED.

I never thought I'd see this on DU.

:thumbsdown:

Kanary

[PROGRESSIVE1]

23. I must agree with you. JFK and MLK are the ones who...

truely cared about America. Reagan just talked big and made it legal for Wall Street to steal from the little people.

:eyes:

[Straight Shooter]

25. If Ronald Reagan was a great man, then Ann Coulter is a virgin

How so many Americans got taken in by that doddering old fool, I'll never know. Everything that goes around, comes around, and it came to take Reagan.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

29. ROFTL....good one.

I was going to say..."great man"? Did I miss something?

[Mr.Green93]

26. BIG DOG is not dead and will never die.

[Minstrel Boy]

27. JFK and MLK AND RFK were killed by those who pulled RR's strings.

You disrespect the memory of America by adding him to a list of giants cut down because they sought a better world.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

28. how dare you!

Putting Reagan in the same class as MLK. Maybe he was in the same class as JFK, but no way, when it comes to MLK.

[Asteroid]

30. I am sorry he died

Yes it was a dreadful way to pass, but Reagan should not be compared to MLK and JFK, in terms of what they did to help humanity. Reagan spoke highly about humanity, but his actions belied his humanic appeal.