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Thu Dec-28-06 05:40 PM
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Poll question: Were you sad when Ronald Reagan died? |
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To contrast with a poll about Ford I posted recently, I am asking now how many people were sad when Reagan died of Alzheimers.
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Thu Dec-28-06 05:41 PM
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Thu Dec-28-06 05:42 PM
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that he didn't die 30 years earlier and save us all a lot of problems.
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Thu Dec-28-06 05:43 PM
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I mourned for all the dear people who died of AIDS because St. Ronnie took his sweet time to do anything about it...
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Thu Dec-28-06 05:43 PM
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4. I was sad seeing Ron and Patti's grief — and I was moved by Nancy (and believe |
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me, I hated the woman when she was in the WH). She seemed so small and frail and she obviously adored her husband.
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Thu Dec-28-06 05:47 PM
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7. I was sad for the family too. I can't imagine dealing with public grief. |
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Thu Dec-28-06 05:45 PM
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5. not just no but hell no |
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i did a fucking dance. that asshole ruined my family. fuck him.
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Thu Dec-28-06 05:47 PM
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It is, isn't it? :) I mean, sad? Like in feeling a personal loss? You were joking I hope.........
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Thu Dec-28-06 05:49 PM
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8. What is the possible reason to ask this kind of question? I see no benefit. |
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Thu Dec-28-06 05:50 PM
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Thu Dec-28-06 06:00 PM
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10. I felt relief, to be honest. |
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I had felt sympathy for Nancy and the kids while dealing with Ronnie's Alzheimer's. As someone who lost someone to that disease, it's almost a relief when the suffering ends.
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Thu Dec-28-06 06:01 PM
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Not at all, not even a smidgen.
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Thu Dec-28-06 06:21 PM
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Edited on Thu Dec-28-06 06:22 PM by edwardlindy
was a true loss but not Reagan.
At least he won't remember what he died of :rofl:
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Thu Dec-28-06 06:26 PM
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13. I was pissed that the media took an entire month to turn him into SAINT RONNIE |
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when the country should have been learning more about Iraq, Bush's policies, and the Dem nominee.
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Thu Dec-28-06 06:31 PM
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14. I just wish his stupid dogma would have died with the rotten sob. |
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Blame everything on the poor and welfare people. Selling drugs to buy weapons for contras? Its welfares fault. Spend 3 trillion dollars on star wars, nope it all went to welfare. I am so sick of retardicans talking about the welfare system that used to be, as if the same thing is going on since welfare reform started.
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Thu Dec-28-06 06:35 PM
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15. No. I felt sad for his family, and even Nancy, for whom I did not have |
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high regard until recently. It turned her into a very sympathetic figure, and her stance on stem-cell research has enhanced that. But him? FEH!!! Good riddance. Shoulda been impeached for Iran/Contra, and got away with it. Hell, he got away with pretty much EVERYTHING.
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Thu Dec-28-06 06:37 PM
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17. I wonder how sad they felt for my family after St. Ronnie fired my dad |
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and the other air traffic controllers, and their families? probably about as sorry as i felt for them when he finally fucked off this mortal coil.
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Thu Dec-28-06 08:42 PM
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30. Oh, man, were you part of that PATCO debacle? |
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What a disgrace that was. A HUGE disgrace. I couldn't believe that. I'm a union member myself. I've always appreciated unions, and it's disappointing that so many people by now have lost or forgotten or have never even had an awareness of how important unions have been to the middle class and the working man and working woman. Everybody just badmouths unions - rather brainlessly in my opinion. Probably because they have no sense of history as far as how and why unions came to exist in the first place - to protect the worker.
I'm sorry to hear that. I felt so bad for the air traffic controllers. Their position was reasonable, and they were so demonized. I worked with a DJ who'd been an air traffic controller in the Marines, and said it was the worst and most stressful job he'd ever had. reagan was a schmuck. BTW, an actress friend of mine, who's in her 70's, said when he was SAG president, "he really screwed the actors." I guess that was one of his things. Business over all. And screw everybody and everything else.
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Thu Dec-28-06 06:37 PM
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I was in a drug nduced comma from May 30th, 2004 to late June of 2004...
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Thu Dec-28-06 06:42 PM
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18. Absofuckinglutly NOT! I was GLAD and HAPPY the SOB was finally GONE! |
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and GOOD RIDDANCE!
My only regret is that he and his cohorts didn't spend any time in PRISON for their CRIMES...
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Thu Dec-28-06 06:44 PM
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19. No. I was indifferent at first and then got annoyed. |
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Wasn't happy, wasn't sad when he died but I got really annoyed with all ridiculous canonization of this guy. He was a terrible President and they were acting like he was a saint. After a few days all the ceremonies and shit really got on my nerves.
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Thu Dec-28-06 06:47 PM
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20. Voted no, only because you didn't have a third option |
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Which should be, "Are you fucking kidding me?"
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Thu Dec-28-06 06:51 PM
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and I'm not sad that Ford has died.
I never really cared for either of these men. Yes, they were president's but that's all they were to me.
Death is just a natural process. They were both over 90 and lived loing lives...can't be too sad over that.
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Thu Dec-28-06 06:51 PM
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...it was because Ray Charles had just died
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Thu Dec-28-06 07:18 PM
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24. I felt sympathy for his family...and for him |
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In terms of his struggle with Alzheimers. Sad is not the right word, I didn't have a personal connection. I was not happy that he died. I'm not happy when anyone dies really.
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Thu Dec-28-06 07:35 PM
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I'm old enough to remember Gerald Ford's presidency. Everyone needs to remember he is responsible for giving birth to Rumsfeld and Cheney and H.W. Bush.
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Thu Dec-28-06 07:35 PM
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26. What will we say when the RW reactions to Carter/Clinton's deaths the way some are reacting here? |
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Edited on Thu Dec-28-06 07:36 PM by Infinite Hope
Just curious.
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Thu Dec-28-06 07:38 PM
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27. We'll call them all sorts of obscene things and be completely disgusted, |
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Thu Dec-28-06 09:53 PM
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they're inhuman little shits, and we'll be right.
And they're right to say the same things about some of the people here.
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Thu Dec-28-06 08:31 PM
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Nancy Reagan is a class act.
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Thu Dec-28-06 08:31 PM
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he lived the good life and dies at a ripe old age.....Ford was 93...people don't live forever.
I get sick when I hear that our young men and women are dying for a war based on lies that bush created....I also weep for the children of the Iraqis and their parents who have to endure bombings and seeing murders every day....this is where to put your sadness....to see our nation become Hell on Earth!
Not on a ex-president who lived better than all of us put together!
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Thu Dec-28-06 09:26 PM
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Thu Dec-28-06 09:35 PM
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32. I was sad AFTER I LAUGHED my ass off!!! |
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At the end of the services, with young Ron speaking, I saw the death of a father. But I still think men should urinate on his grave. It's a very tough call... I am already amazed at how low key Gerald Ford's passing is being covered.
I served in the USAF under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. I respect them both.
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Thu Dec-28-06 10:20 PM
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34. No. I can't believe how they dragged his body around. |
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But then, maybe it was just an empty box.
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Thu Dec-28-06 10:26 PM
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35. NO! And I was repulsed by that disgusting, |
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smarmy orgy of a state funeral that went on and on --- and the deification of that phony, mean, hypocritical SOB. Everytime he was praised as being some sort of glorious, benevolent, latter-day Saint or George Washington clone I thought about how he had thousands of helpless mental patients expelled from New York Hospitals and Institutions and literally put out to wander homeless on the streets. Nice Norman Rockwell picture there.
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Fri Dec-29-06 12:31 AM
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36. No, and I wasn't sad when Pinochet kicked off either. n/t |
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Fri Dec-29-06 12:44 AM
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37. No...but I didn't dance on his grave either |
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