Farewell, Mr. President

[KeepItReal]

Condolences to the Reagan family.

When he got shot, I remember them telling us and everyone at my school said a prayer for him. I didn't know what a Democrat or Republican was back then, I just new that the guy that ran the country needed a prayer and was glad that he got better.


"We the people are the driver, the government is the car...
We the people tell the government what it is allowed to do..." - Ronald Reagan

[qwertyMike]

1. Good Riddance

BARF!!!!!!!!!

[Endangered Specie]

do you have any class?

curious.

[Bertha Venation]

5. you have to ask?

The death of despised men sometimes brings out the worst in people. I'm ashamed of some of my fellow liberals today.

[qwertyMike]

7. More than that old Turd Reagan

[Endangered Specie]

9. So your saying, that at least you have more class than RR?...

Id like to argue that... I don't know 100% about this, but I doubt Reagan would go around celebrating the death of someone, and even if he did, then at best you two would be equal on the class scale.

[DS1]

10. Hey, this is class warfare

Go ahead, use me as the poverty line :hi:

[Reciprocity]

11. I forget how much children enjoy attention.

You know there are plenty of threads for those of your ilk to post on.

[DS1]

2. The Government is K.I.T.T.?

[Bertha Venation]

3. Amen.

and thanks

[Endangered Specie]

4. Respect for Reagan, condolonces to the family

Why is this so hard to do for a day?

[ant]

8. what qualities does death give someone...

...to earn respect?

If people didn't respect the man when he was alive, why would they respect him now that he's died? Is death an accomplishment of some sort?

Yeah, it's sad for the family, as any death is sad for a family, but I don't really get this need to turn the dead into saints or even respectable people when people didn't consider them those things when they were alive. Will people "remember Osama's family" when he dies? (And no, I'm not comparing Reagan to Bin Laden, just pointing out the absurdity of this "respect the dead" concept.)

Reagan is dead; I'm pretty sure he doesn't care what people are saying about him.

[OneBlueSky]

12. it's not about him . . . it's about us . . .

just as a human being, I have some degree of respect for anyone who managed to make it through 93 years on this planet, and a certain amount of empathy for what he went through with the Alzheimers . . . I hated him as president, but as one human to another, I wish him well on wherever the next step in his journey takes him . . .

[galadrium]

6. I'm with you on that.

I was no fan of the man, but I feel for his family.