Man am I getting sick of this Reagan coverage! Just bury the guy already!

Stories:
1. Reagan Dies--various stories on "legacy"
2. Politicians comment
3. Politicians comment on the other politicians comments
4. Left-wing wackos comment
5. Right wing wackos comment
6. Memorial in CA...body viewed in state
7. Body ready to leave CA for WA
8. Body in transit to WA.
to be continued....

Man am I getting sick of this Reagan coverage! Just bury the guy already!

Stories:
1. Reagan Dies--various stories on "legacy"
2. Politicians comment
3. Politicians comment on the other politicians comments
4. Left-wing wackos comment
5. Right wing wackos comment
6. Memorial in CA...body viewed in state
7. Body ready to leave CA for WA
8. Body in transit to WA.
to be continued....


dont worry. rather and brokaw are already complaining too. it didnt take the libbys a week to start the hateful tirades just like peggy noonan said. it'll all be over soon. big media has spoken.

Quit yer whining. Its not enough that you cower at home while others fight your wars. . .

dont worry. rather and brokaw are already complaining too. it didnt take the libbys a week to start the hateful tirades just like peggy noonan said. it'll all be over soon. big media has spoken.
Really though Bill...After the 1st day of everyone basically gushing over how great a man Reagan was, didn't you think that was enough? Maybe a short piece on the memorial services, but front page news for days? You'd think God himself died.

Quit yer whining. Its not enough that you cower at home while others fight your wars. . .

its your war too topgun. how was afghanistan?

Maybe a short piece on the memorial services, but front page news for days?Look at it this way: every day the media stays preoccupied with Reagan is one less day we don't have to hear about Scott, Kobe, or Martha.

its your war too topgun.
Only because you defense-welfware-queens are forcing me to pay for your poor life choices.

Only because you defense-welfware-queens are forcing me to pay for your poor life choices.

sounds like you need a tax cut.

Nope, just need a welfare-to-the-front-lines program for folks like you.

Nope, just need a welfare-to-the-front-lines program for folks like you.


so other people can fight your wars.

Again, not my war. Never supported it. Knew President Stateside and his chicken hawks would only make things worse.

Meanwhile, troops are being forced to overstay their commitments because your hide is too precious to put on the line you drew in the sand. Shameful.

Really though Bill...After the 1st day of everyone basically gushing over how great a man Reagan was, didn't you think that was enough? Maybe a short piece on the memorial services, but front page news for days? You'd think God himself died.

i think he should get way more coverage than princess di did. if God had died it wouldnt have been news to libbys since they dont ascribe to anyone higher than themselves.

i think he should get way more coverage than princess di did. if God had died it wouldnt have been news to libbys since they dont ascribe to anyone higher than themselves.

You are beneath debate.

A perfectly good afternoon of quality television was wasted today on Reagan's funeral (did anyone actually see the body?). I am in mourning for Days of Our Lives.

if God had died it wouldnt have been news to libbys since they dont ascribe to anyone higher than themselves.

No, the difference is that liberals just don't run around thinking God has chosen them to be President for a Divine mission.

No, the difference is that liberals just don't run around thinking God has chosen them to be President for a Divine mission.


if i was Him i wouldnt choose them to get anything done either. you make a great point.

from: http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=338&row=0

KILLER, COWARD, CON-MAN
GOOD RIDDANCE, GIPPER!

Baltimore Chronicle
Sunday, June 6, 2004
by Greg Palast

You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to.

Ronald Reagan was a conman. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer.

In 1987, I found myself stuck in a crappy little town in Nicaragua named Chaguitillo. The people were kind enough, though hungry, except for one surly young man. His wife had just died of tuberculosis.

People don't die of TB if they get some antibiotics. But Ronald Reagan, big hearted guy that he was, had put a lock-down embargo on medicine to Nicaragua because he didn't like the government that the people there had elected.

Ronnie grinned and cracked jokes while the young woman's lungs filled up and she stopped breathing. Reagan flashed that B-movie grin while they buried the mother of three.

And when Hezbollah terrorists struck and murdered hundreds of American marines in their sleep in Lebanon, the TV warrior ran away like a whipped dog … then turned around and invaded Grenada. That little Club Med war was a murderous PR stunt so Ronnie could hold parades for gunning down Cubans building an airport.

I remember Nancy, a skull and crossbones prancing around in designer dresses, some of the "gifts" that flowed to the Reagans -- from hats to million-dollar homes -- from cronies well compensated with government loot. It used to be called bribery.

And all the while, Grandpa grinned, the grandfather who bleated on about "family values" but didn't bother to see his own grandchildren.

The New York Times today, in its canned obit, wrote that Reagan projected, "faith in small town America" and "old-time values." "Values" my ass. It was union busting and a declaration of war on the poor and anyone who couldn't buy designer dresses. It was the New Meanness, bringing starvation back to America so that every millionaire could get another million.

"Small town" values? From the movie star of the Pacific Palisades, the Malibu mogul? I want to throw up.

And all the while, in the White House basement, as his brain boiled away, his last conscious act was to condone a coup d'etat against our elected Congress. Reagan's Defense Secretary Casper the Ghost Weinberger with the crazed Colonel, Ollie North, plotted to give guns to the Monster of the Mideast, Ayatolla Khomeini.

Reagan's boys called Jimmy Carter a weanie and a wuss although Carter wouldn't give an inch to the Ayatolla. Reagan, with that film-fantasy tough-guy con in front of cameras, went begging like a coward cockroach to Khomeini pleading on bended knee for the release of our hostages.

Ollie North flew into Iran with a birthday cake for the maniac mullah -- no kidding --in the shape of a key. The key to Ronnie's heart.

Then the Reagan roaches mixed their cowardice with crime: taking cash from the hostage-takers to buy guns for the "contras" - the drug-runners of Nicaragua posing as freedom fighters.

I remember as a student in Berkeley the words screeching out of the bullhorn, "The Governor of the State of California, Ronald Reagan, hereby orders this demonstration to disperse" … and then came the teargas and the truncheons. And all the while, that fang-hiding grin from the Gipper.



In Chaguitillo, all night long, the farmers stayed awake to guard their kids from attack from Reagan's Contra terrorists. The farmers weren't even Sandinistas, those 'Commies' that our cracked-brained President told us were 'only a 48-hour drive from Texas.' What the hell would they want with Texas, anyway?



Nevertheless, the farmers, and their families, were Ronnie's targets.

In the deserted darkness of Chaguitillo, a TV blared. Weirdly, it was that third-rate gangster movie, "Brother Rat." Starring Ronald Reagan.

Well, my friends, you can rest easier tonight: the Rat is dead.

Killer, coward, conman. Ronald Reagan, good-bye and good riddance.
_____

Thoughts on Palast's column anyone?

The dark side of Ronald Reagan, and the whole country. That's exactly the way it was. We just have to realize, he was a Hollywood actor. Having a State funeral for him is sort of like the one they did for Rudolph Valentino. In this time of uncertainty, we make a hero of this unsuccessful actor, to give us comfort in the familiar.

Well he went to Bezerkley that says it all. I would guess that he majored in journalism, seems like a fair written rather entertaining article. Although, he should have taken some classes in manners.

All I remember was our family did much better under Reagan than under Mr. Peanut and we were not "the rich" either.

All I remember was our family did much better under Reagan

That's the kind of logic the Reagan and both Bush admin's have always used to justify their crimes - as long as it's working, it doesn't matter if it's illegal, immoral, or unconstitutional.