Ronald Reagan dies

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I just heard on the news that Ronald Reagan just died. While he hasn't been really alive mentally for some years, this is really too bad. Now I will have to listen to endless streams of testemonials about what a great president he was.

While I don't wish death on anyone, I will not praise him in death when I found him so totally despicable in life. He is simply the worst president of the last 50 years. At least he was until Dubya. raised the bar.
 
shemp said:
I will hold to the adage that if one cannot say something good about the deceased, one should say nothing at all. At least until he's buried.
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It's a good thing others here don't apply that rule to you, or you'd never get a eulogy.

Ass.
 
Expect Bob Woodward and other liberal freaks to publish soon, when he can't defend himself from rumors and scandal now that he's dead. It's what they did to Nixon.
 
Alzheimer's is a horrible way to spend the last years of one's life. My earliest memories of politics involve Reagan.


Tricky: From your comments, I suspect you should have decided to let someone else create this thread. I find your post to be in poor taste.

Shemp: Announcing that you have nothing good to say about Reagan seems equivalent to saying something bad about him. Perhaps you should have actually said nothing at all.

American: Sadly, Reagan has been unable to defend himself for quite some time.

MattJ
 
American said:
Expect Bob Woodward and other liberal freaks to publish soon, when he can't defend himself from rumors and scandal now that he's dead. It's what they did to Nixon.
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Yeah, they always spread scandalous rumors that he was a drunk. Then they released the White House tapes, and guess what moron? He was a drunk!
 
He hasn't been able to 'defend himself' like that for years, anyway.
 
Tricky said:
I just heard on the news that Ronald Reagan just died. While he hasn't been really alive mentally for some years, this is really too bad. Now I will have to listen to endless streams of testemonials about what a great president he was.

While I don't wish death on anyone, I will not praise him in death when I found him so totally despicable in life. He is simply the worst president of the last 50 years. At least he was until Dubya. raised the bar.
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A great man dies and all you can do is bitch about your TV selections? Shame on you Tricky. I thought you were above such petty nonsense. You just raised a bar or two yourself, as far as I'm concerned.

Even Teddy Kennedy praised him as a man of principle, but you and Shemp seem more intersted in making an appointment to piss on his grave.

F*ck you both.
 
I was only little at the time but I remember thinking how great Reagan was for restarting the B-1 program, and what a wuss Carter was for shutting it down. That plane was just so cool!

Then I read a book by a guy named Gervasi called "the Pentagon's guide to Soviet military power - the annotated and corrected version" and became a little more cynical.
 
Jocko said:


It's a good thing others here don't apply that rule to you, or you'd never get a eulogy.

Ass.
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You forgot to add "hole" to that.

OK, I've changed my mind. Let's rip the fecker another butthole. He came in claiming he would balance the budget and cut the national debt. Instead, he came up with the biggest budget deficits to date and added hugely to the national debt. (Oh gee, I forgot, that was all Congress' fault.)

He also gave us the Iran-Contra scandal, which should have been the equivalent of Watergate and gotten him run out of town, except he had more friends than Nixon did. This was a perfect example of "the end justifies the means"; sell arms to Iran and give the profits to the Contras in Nicaragua, a bunch of bastards who sold drugs to finance their fight.

I thought Reagan was the worst president I would ever see in my lifetime, until the Shrub came along. Watching a tribute to Reagan a few minutes ago, it suddenly struck me that, if I could, I'd rather have Reagan back in place of Shrub. One thing I will not accuse Reagan of is stupidity. he was an intelligent man, and knew what he was doing, even if it didn't always work out the way he intended it. Shrub is just a plain old idiot. Shrub makes Reagan look good. But he was still a lying butthole.
 
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Jocko said:


A great man dies and all you can do is bitch about your TV selections? Shame on you Tricky. I thought you were above such petty nonsense. You just raised a bar or two yourself, as far as I'm concerned.

Even Teddy Kennedy praised him as a man of principle, but you and Shemp seem more intersted in making an appointment to piss on his grave.

F*ck you both.
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If I should die before you, I invite you to piss on my grave. I assume that I may be permitted to do the same on yours should the opportunity arise?
 
My, my, my, Shemp... what a petty little twat you are. Your post is a tired retread of half-truths and lies, and if you were in the slightest bit interested in knowing how things really happened you would've done it by now. Obvious conclusion is that you're a hateful little son of a bitch, and I'm elated that Reagan made your life a living hell for a sizeable chunk of his 93 masterful years on this earth.

He will be remembered. You are already forgotten.
 
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shemp said:


If I should die before you, I invite you to piss on my grave. I assume that I may be permitted to do the same on yours should the opportunity arise?
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No, Shemp, reasonable people don't believe in pissing on graves. Welcome to the wrong side of the tracks. Besides, I wouldn't waste the urine on you, and the bullsh*t they stuff into your coffin will be fertilizer enough.
 
American said:
Expect Bob Woodward and other liberal freaks to publish soon, when he can't defend himself from rumors and scandal now that he's dead. It's what they did to Nixon.
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Oh, sure, Nixon didn't have any scandals at all come out while he was alive...

As for Reagan, all I have to say is that it's a shame that, as President, he didn't live up to the image of his detractors.
 
aerocontrols said:
Tricky: From your comments, I suspect you should have decided to let someone else create this thread. I find your post to be in poor taste.
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I don't understand why you think that. There is nothing inflammatory in the title. At some point, people are going to say what they feel about Reagan. It shouldn't matter whether it is the first post or the fiftieth.

But of course, as a human being suffering from Alzheimers, Reagan and his family deserve my sympathy. They have it. It does not follow that I should speak well of the dead (in spite of what Shemp says) simply because they are dead. That smacks of hypocrisy.

Although I suppose my feelings are more like those expressed by Hilaire Belloc:
Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician's corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged,
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
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shemp said:


If I should die before you, I invite you to piss on my grave. I assume that I may be permitted to do the same on yours should the opportunity arise?
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Jocko said:


No, Shemp, reasonable people don't believe in pissing on graves. Welcome to the wrong side of the tracks. Besides, I wouldn't waste the urine on you, and the bullsh*t they stuff into your coffin will be fertilizer enough.
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I think it's sad that intelligent posters speak to each other like this. I mean what's the point?

Besides, you Americans really need to stick together instead of attacking each other. You have enough enemies as it is.
 
Jocko said:
A great man dies and all you can do is bitch about your TV selections? Shame on you Tricky. I thought you were above such petty nonsense. You just raised a bar or two yourself, as far as I'm concerned.
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I believe that having the news (not just TV) saturated with maudlin sentiment for such a man is hypocrisy. I would hope that when I die, people do not hide their feelings for me, but say what they felt while I was alive. Your implication that I should go all mealymouthed in this situation indicates to me that you are not above such petty nonsense.

Jocko said:
Even Teddy Kennedy praised him as a man of principle, but you and Shemp seem more intersted in making an appointment to piss on his grave.
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Teddy's a politician too. He has to be politically correct.

Tell me, though, what is the appropriate length of time before one can drop the pretense and say what one feels?
 
Tricky said:

I would hope that when I die, people do not hide their feelings for me, but say what they felt while I was alive. Your implication that I should go all mealymouthed in this situation indicates to me that you are not above such petty nonsense.
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Well, there are relatives to consider. I for one, hope people do not speak the truth about me. It would hurt my mother's feelings.
 
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