Thank you, Ronald Reagan.

[milkyway]

You changed my life. I was just out of college and had moved to NYC shortly before you took office. Your murderous, hateful policies radicalized me. I discovered writers like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky because of you. Your brutal policies toward the peoples of Central America inspired me to attend my first protests, and I was proud to march by the White House and give you the finger (yep, that was me). Thanks to your barbaric policies, the City was an edgy, exciting place to live in during the 80's, not safe and middle class like it became during the Clinton years (which I am now grateful for).

As luck would have it, I had planned long ago to see an old friend tonight that I rarely see anymore. As hard as it is to believe, he hated you even more than I did. You dropping dead today really livened up the party. We had a great time. We didn't bother to shed any tears--there's a lot of people in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and here in America that never got to see the age of 93, because you killed them. There are plenty of people more deserving of sympathy than you. I refuse to feel sorry that you're dead just because the media and society tells me I'm supposed to feel that way. I'm glad you're gone. Unfortunately for us, your spawn is living in the White House.

[Union Thug]

1. good point, and I thank reagan for...

...waking me up to the reality of the class war. Thanks Gipper, you did one thing right.

[Duncan Grant]

2. Thank you for radicalizing the AIDS community.

6 years of silence - 60,000 dead. :grr:

[TexasMexican]

8. AIDS Question

AIDS really isnt a big issue for me.

That being said, what do you think could have been done differently?

Do you think a cure would have been found by now if Reagan made a bigger deal of AIDs? Or what?

[Skittles]

3. he also spawned Osama and Saddam

lots of people don't seem to know this

[murielm99]

7. 278 Marines died in Lebanon,

and Reagan bombed Grenada. Remind you of anyone?

He also said we went into Lebanon because of the oil. Lebanon has no oil.

[mw]

4. Only the good die young. RIP, Reagan, at 93 nt

nt

[Ohio Dem]

6. Well put.

I might use that on another board. Not bashing at all, just saying how you feel, and quite succinctly.

[Rationality]

5. Thank you!

Finally, someone on the DU that isn't holding back...

[Daisey Mae]

9. It is easy to dislike(hate) a person like Ray-gun .....

His policies and actions were stupid and cruel.... HE and HE alone was responsible for the many hundreds of thousand deaths that his policies caused.
The stupidity of his administration are legendary...Catchup as a vegetable....the trees cause CO2....His greed filled saga of the "Black Welfare Queens" designed to promote both racial tension and greed.....Which the hateful of the GOP gravitate to with ease even with out encouragement from the Ray Gunner Guy....Oh he was a humdinger alright and I am sure there will be a place indeed for his type on the other side... A place reserved for liars, cheats, warmongers,greedy promoters and Thieving A--holes.....It will be a place down there right next to the present White House Squatter....The place will be very very firey and uncomfortable..... The two of them probably could carry on a conversation with each other.... and that is NOT a compliment to either.....