Remembering Reagan...

[RBHam]

KILLER, COWARD, CON-MAN
GOOD RIDDANCE, GIPPER ...
MORE PROOF ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG
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.

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[SlingBlade]

1. OK, I Remembered Him, AGAIN.

Now fuck him, Let the poor bastard rest in peace, Or Hell whichever
applies.

[I thought so.]

2. I am tired of it too!

He's dead. gone. history. Get over it.

[MajorFlaw]

3. Not so fast. If we can use Reagan's wife, his son, or his "legacy" to

help send shrub packing, shouldn't we do so. Repugs have no problem "borrowing" Lincoln's corpse, we should return the favor if possible.

[stavka]

4. Wait - Now I get it!

Booze does all those things for me!

Makes me feel better, and more optimistic

Makes me laugh, even if I'm down

Makes me find optimism where there should be none

Self-Deprecating....

THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED!

[SheilaT]

5. The Remembering Reagan

strip has been printed out and is going to be put up on my kitchen cabinet right away.

We've designated three of the nine cabinet fronts as places to post political cartoons of various kinds.