Ronald Reagan Statue Coming To Namesake DC Airport

[Angry Dragon]

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dc/ronald-reagan-statue-coming-to-namesake-dc-airport-071210




Ronald Reagan Statue Coming To Namesake DC Airport

Updated: Monday, 12 Jul 2010, 5:22 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 12 Jul 2010, 5:22 PM EDT

ARLINGTON, Va. - A statue of Ronald Reagan could be coming soon to the former president's namesake airport just across the Potomac River from Washington.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation has inked a deal with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which operates Reagan National and Dulles International Airport, to install the bronze statue of Reagan on a triangle of land in front of Terminal A at the airport.

The foundation hopes to dedicate the statue in the fall of 2011. Authority staff estimates that the project, not including the statue, will cost $445,000. The authority would pay about $80,000 of that amount.

As of last week, the foundation was still selecting a statue.

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Gives the right something to pray to..........

[PBS Poll-435]

1. What an exciting and useful use of 80K

Good God.

[Octafish]

26. Got the picture right here...

Put it on the back of the dime, while we're at it.

[jobycom]

34. That's the guy. nt

[kenny blankenship]

2. But how will you tell it's Reagan, under all those gobs of spit?

Oh... right. Who else could it be? Duh.

[Ken Burch]

3. Can Bonzo be on the statue with him, at least?

n/t.

[Art_from_Ark]

4. They should depict him trampling over an air traffic controller

That was his "legacy", as far as air travel is concerned

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. I still call it National

[DFW]

14. I grew up in Falls Church

It will always remain National Airport to me. I don't care how many right wing icons they put there.

Notice how it always the extremists that need their icons staring at them? Whether Stalin, Hitler,
Idi Amin, Saddam, or now Reagan, the statues put up against popular will always statues of controversial
characters who had at least as many people hate them as worship them. Reagan never liked DC, and the
people of DC never liked him, so of course a statue of him is being put there by people from far away from
DC as well.

[Blue_Tires]

20. i was thinking that as well

The irony burns...How very "USSR" of the protectorate of Reagan's legacy...

[Lost4words]

25. +1 we have a winner!!

:hi:

[Lost4words]

24. We let them claim legemiticy this way, its shamefull. Great Post BTW!

National Airport is the Nations airport not the republicans airport. I started my adult life in Northern Virginia and traveled out of DCA hunderds of times. It will never be anything other than Washington National Airport to me.

Northern Va didnt like RR either, but southern VA sure did. We moved from there in 2002 after 27 years, after Bush the area changed.

[Rex]

6. I really don't care, he still was one of the worst presidents in US history.

A statue means nothing, Saddam had a statue... :eyes:

[jobycom]

9. Meet you there with a rope and some cable.

I wonder if we'd get positive airtime for pulling that abomination down.

[Rex]

32. They would probably have us tazed and shot full of holes a billion times

before we even got the rope around his evil neck...but I'm game! :thumbsup:

[Umbral]

7. I'll show up for that dedication, with a bag of pigeon feed. nt

[jobycom]

8. Will it be wearing a dunce cap and a white sheet?

Maybe he should have a noose in one hand, to honor his praising of the Civil Rights murderers of Philadelphia, Mississippi. His other hand could hold a blank check and a get-out-jail-free card to Iran, as he accepts the US presidency from the Ayatollah.

And of course, he should be standing on the prone and mangled bodies of the poor and middle classes. I hope they don't forget that.

Vile, filthy dog. The only two good things I can say about him is that he's dead, and that he probably made me hate George W Bush a little less.

[Golden Raisin]

10. Calling all pigeons!

His Presidency was an horrendous disaster (on multiple levels and fronts) from which this Country never recovered.

[upi402]

11. corporate altar needs a pagan image

He was the beginning of the end. May pigeons do what I only think.

[Historic NY]

12. Do they have pigeons there?...

at least they will have something to shit on.

[marmar]

13. Let's throw up Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman statues too......

..... We can rename it Pariah International Airport.

[eShirl]

15. Gippermandius

[jobycom]

36. Hey, that's pretty damn good!

:thumbsup:

Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[unhappycamper]

16. Put it in the middle of a round urinal in the Men's room. n/t

[Vickers]

17. They should put it in the international concourse...that way no repuke would ever see it. n/t

[Caretha]

18. If I ever land at Nat'l again

I'll make it a point to go hit it with my shoe.

[hobbit709]

19. May it become the stopping point of millions of pigeons

[n2doc]

27. I think I will bring some birdseed with me next time I'm in DC n/t

[Lost4words]

21. They will do anything to deify that Alzheimer president.

Oh Nancy, Mommy, do your astrologers say its ok for me to play with foreign policy today?

[jobycom]

35. His sad illness is no exoneration of him. He was vile before he was sick.

[paparush]

22. Hopefully the pigeons will respond accordingly and cover that man's image in shit.

[HughBeaumont]

23. Inspires me to fly straight into BWI.

I'll never set foot into National unless I absolutely have to. And it's not looking like that's happening.

[Mike Daniels]

28. Why does the Authority have to pay anything towards the statue?

The article doesn't give any details but why is the Authority on the hook for any of the cost?

[superduperfarleft]

29. I refuse to call it Reagan, I still call it National.

And it's a dump of an airport anyway.

[LongTomH]

30. It should have a display of Salvadoran Baby Skulls

Reagan and the Salvadoran Baby Skulls, This has been posted here before; but, it needs to be reposted every time Reagan is mentioned!

One of the most notorious acts of brutality occurred in December 1981 in and around the Salvadoran town of El Mozote. The government’s Atlacatl Battalion – freshly trained and newly armed thanks to Reagan’s hard-line policies – systematically slaughtered hundreds of men, women and children.

When the atrocity was revealed by reporters at the New York Times and the Washington Post, the Reagan administration showed off its new strategy of “perception management,” denying the facts and challenging the integrity of the journalists.

Because of that P.R. offensive, the reality about the El Mozote massacre remained in doubt for almost a decade until the war ended and a United Nations forensic team dug up hundreds of skeletons, including many little ones of children.

It gets grimmer!

Now the Washington Post has added a new grisly detail. Several months after the massacre, the Salvadoran army returned to the scene and collected the skulls of some El Mozote children as novelty items, the Post reported.

The skulls became candle holders and "good luck charms!"

The Reagan administration was complicit in provided arms, helicopters and advanced technology to the Salvadoran military and in covering up news of the genocidal massacres committed in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

[Angry Dragon]

31. Thanks for the link

[roamer65]

33. I wish I could be a pigeon in DC on dedication day.