you think your town sucks? try mine

[madrchsod]

http://www.saukvalley.com/articles/2007/05/05/news/local/89423866383907.txt

[donco6]

1. Oh yay.

:puke:

[rosesaylavee]

2. I am so sorry... as one Illinoisan to another,

I feel your pain. I find it difficult to use 88 or refer to it as the Ronald Reagon - flinch when others call it that even.

How much of the $4M will go towards paying for that bronze?

[MADem]

3. Wow, that is offensive on SO many levels!!

The statue depicts the 40th President before he took office, wearing a T-shirt, jeans and riding boots. It is based on photographs taken when he rode on horseback in the city's Injun Summer Days parade in August of 1950.



INJUN Summer Days, eh?

How long before wags start piling dog poop under the horse's ass, or worse?

It seems like a foolish concept, and one ripe for vandalism. To say nothing of the EXPENSE of it all...

[Hissyspit]

4. Oh, my god. What an ugly piece-of-shit kitsch equestrian statue that is. n/t

[jgraz]

5. Hmmm...apparently Reagan was our first black president

Ugh...Dixon, IL. I feel your pain.

[Lobster Martini]

6. "the statue will be available to make appearances..."

What? I thought it was embarrasing that we have a statue of Sylvester Stallone and a giant clothespin, but at least they doesn't make appearances.

[Blue Fire]

7. Oh, come on now! This ain't so bad!

I mean, now the pigeons have a great new place to take a shit!

[murielm99]

8. Hahahaha!

And they accused us, one county over, of putting an idol on the courthouse lawn.

Ronnie on a horse is the real idolatry!

[madrchsod]

17. i was waiting to see what you`d have to say....

we get all the tacky statues and you guys up there get some really nice ones..

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Reagan was African American?

[Mrs. Overall]

10. They need to erect a statue of the real Raygun:

[davsand]

11. Are you "saddled" with Hastert too?

Am I right about that--does his district extend that far?

I gotta tell you, I have NO idea how you keep from hurling when the Ronnie Raygun choir starts up. I am SO sorry!


Laura

[madrchsod]

18. yup- we are the western outpost

for denny`s office. sadly there has`t been much in the news about denny

[davsand]

22. Ronnie AND Denny--I am so sorry!

I suspected as much. Ow.


Laura

[EFerrari]

12. The Conqueror of Grenada!

:rofl:

[roody]

13. I heard Ralph Nader say that!!

Is it his original or was he quoting someone else? Good one, either way.

[EFerrari]

14. I stole it from Rachel Maddow. Link:

:)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x26558

[Matsubara]

15. Your town really DOES suck.

My condolences, and best of luck in coaxing it back to sanity.

[madrchsod]

19. it used to be a great place to live before he was elected...

[never cry wolf]

23. Ahhh, the good old days... 1977, Northern Illinois University

And I lost my innocence to a sweet young thing from Amboy, Il. I asked her where that was and she said not far from Dixon. That clue did not help me. It was three years yet until Dixon became infamous.

[Monk06]

24. What's with the wet tee shirt and the washboard lats. I think the commenter on Maddow is right....

The Republicans have a homo erotic fixation with
Reagan

[lpbk2713]

16. Be sure and scatter a lot of bird seed around it ....

so the pigeons can shit on it thoroughly.

[Joe Fields]

20. I'm afraid I would have to destroy that statue. I'm not a violent or

destructive person, but I couldn't abide having that statue in my town. I would destroy it.

[LeftCoast]

21. I'd make a bumper sticker that said "And the horse you rode in on!"

and place in on Ronnie's back. :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. Perhaps this would be more appropriate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0IzA9zgAS4

[hedgehog]

26. The inability of people to distinguish fantasy from reality never

ceases to amaze me. I've yet to figure out why John Wayne was awarded the Medal of freedom!