Ronald Reagan at 100: The Darker Legacy

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/01/29/ronald-reagan-at-100-the-darker-legacy/

Are you ready for Reaganpalooza? February 6 will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ronald Reagan, and the coming week will be loaded with events, op-eds, and television packages commemorating the day and celebrating the 40th president.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and the University of Southern California are holding an academic-star-studded conference on the Reagan legacy. Sarah Palin will deliver the keynote address at a gala being mounted at Reagan's former ranch in Santa Barbara, California.

Preparing for the Reagan centennial, the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, which seeks to name schools, roads and courthouses across the country after the Gipper, launched a new website. Past and present Reaganites will be out in force -- on cable television, on editorial pages, on blogs -- to hail Reagan as the greatest president of the past century, or the nation's entire history.

The Reagan acolytes will contend that he brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union with his hawkish stance and tough talk ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!") and revived the U.S. economy with tax cuts and spending cuts. That he single-handedly restored American greatness after the gloomy 1970s. All this is debatable.


More at the link --

[lunatica]

1. I wish I could just sleep through all of it.

[Kucinich Feingold]

2. No more worshiping of this overrated shit

Please, just say no to Reagan and it's right wing fans.

[Initech]

3. Reagonomics fucked us all.

[EstimatedProphet]

4. John 3:16 revisited

For God so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten son Ronald Reagan
that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish,
but have eternal life and wealth.

[wtbymark]

5. I think most of us would give anything to see the 'gloomy 70's' returned n/t

[thelordofhell]

6. One of the proudest moments of my life

Is when I got to piss on ronald reagan's grave.......fuck him.

:argh:

[Octafish]

7. Kicked and Recc'ed and it stayed at 'zero.'

Interesting, in a sick way, that anyone would like or admire or unrecc a post about Pruneface the NAZI.

[EFerrari]

8. K&R