Three CHEERS for Ronald Reagan!!!

[Mike Nelson]

He helped move the USA toward Roe v Wade by legalizing abortion in California!
He honored Martin Luther King Jr. by signing MLK Holiday!!
AND...
He left us a great son, Ron Reagan!!!

[sakabatou]

1. I feel ill.

[Zoeisright]

2. Me too.

I have no idea how to respond to this.

[marmar]

5. I haven't felt this ill since that Ronald Reagan film.....

:puke:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

26. ...

:thumbsup:

[Ian David]

3. Be sure to mention this to Republcan Reagan-worshipers. n/t

[Mike Nelson]

7. I do and it really gets their goat...

Nobody recalls the abortion signing or the MLK holiday, which really mkes them MAD. I also call Reagan "The First Gay President" because he really had gay friends (like Bill Clinton had Black friends, so was called "The First Black President")...

BUT, best of all is Ron Reagan's refreshing Air American radio show!

IT ROKS!

[uppityperson]

23. Bill Clinton was called the "1st black pres" because he was the 1st pres to have black friends? WTF?

[EFerrari]

35. I hope our good brother Mike is drunk or something.

Bill Clinton was called the "first black president" by Toni Morrison because he was treated as badly in the press as black people are usually treated.

[EFerrari]

34. Ronald Reagan was responsible for countless AIDS deaths.

Reagan's AIDS Legacy
Silence equals death

Allen White

Tuesday, June 8, 2004

As America remembers the life of Ronald Reagan, it must never forget his shameful abdication of leadership in the fight against AIDS. History may ultimately judge his presidency by the thousands who have and will die of AIDS.

Following discovery of the first cases in 1981, it soon became clear a national health crisis was developing. But President Reagan's response was "halting and ineffective," according to his biographer Lou Cannon. Those infected initially with this mysterious disease -- all gay men -- found themselves targeted with an unprecedented level of mean-spirited hostility.

A significant source of Reagan's support came from the newly identified religious right and the Moral Majority, a political-action group founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell. AIDS became the tool, and gay men the target, for the politics of fear, hate and discrimination. Falwell said "AIDS is the wrath of God upon homosexuals." Reagan's communications director Pat Buchanan argued that AIDS is "nature's revenge on gay men."

With each passing month, death and suffering increased at a frightening rate. Scientists, researchers and health care professionals at every level expressed the need for funding. The response of the Reagan administration was indifference.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/08/EDG777163F1.DTL&type=printable

That anyone could possibly call him the first gay president is obscene.

[EFerrari]

36. Reagan, White As Snow

Reagan, White As Snow

Ronald Reagan. The man was a saint, a positive saint. Such strength, such warmth, such conviction, such vision. Such claptrap.

Reagan was a mean, crazy old man with a withering contempt for most of the world’s people, beginning with African Americans and extending most strongly to black Africans.

Last week, as we’ve heard, the Republican presidential candidates praised the name and heritage of Ronald Reagan 40 times during the televised Show and Tell at the Reagan Presidential Library. That none of them mentioned Reagan’s legacy of white supremacy and support for apartheid is a little like invoking Jefferson Davis and not mentioning treason or slavery. Actually, a lot like it.

Ronald Reagan was a white supremacist to his very core, and left enough traces over his lengthy political career so that it’s evident for anyone who cares to look—which apparently few do.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/05/08/reagan_white_as_snow.php

[Forkboy]

4. Fuck that.

:puke:

[Barack_America]

6. Yeah, I don't think so.

[tekisui]

8. Thank you, no.

[Auggie]

9. Nope

[inna]

10. sorry, i rarely unrec, but.... this was one of these rare cases.

[Ian David]

11. He also cut-and-ran from Lebanon. n/t

[Fearless]

12. Don't forget that neo-con philosophy which was so fucking helpful.

:banghead:

[ddeclue]

13. I just threw up a little in my mouth..

oh wait it came out after all:

:puke:

[Smarmie Doofus]

14. This part I can't dispute:

>>>He left us a great son, Ron Reagan!!!>>>

[Va Lefty]

15. He sure left us a great son!

[bridgit]

16. He used to be able to saddle his own horse up until the day couldn't remember how

I'm sure Ron has whole memories of his dad. But for that Gaffney dude to say such a thing only illustrates just how mean and fucked up republicans really are

[jinto86]

17. Man I have to lay off licking toads

oh wait... I really saw that... damn. :goes back to licking toads:

[peacetalksforall]

18. Maybe those two were outnumbered by 1 million with the trickle down economy.

His dirty tricks against Jimmy Carter was beneath horrible.

I like Ron.

He had a discussion about child discipline today - his story about his father very positive - no spanking, no yelling - just talking and reasoning.

I guess it is always important to try to separate the man (father) from the Party. As a Party man - he brought this country down - the legacy has gone on for decades. They called it trickle down, but it was setting the stage for wealth for a few and Fed Reserve ponzi schemes.

I can't stand the word trickle ever since the Reagan era. He was a liar and a conniver. The perfect actor-President. He sure was smarter and more educated (self or not) than George W. Bush.

[Mike Nelson]

21. Yeah, if Ron was the BEST thing...

The Bush family was the WORST thing you can trace to Reagan. And, he picked "poppa Bush" because he needed a "liberal" on the ticket. I don't believe the Reaagans ever liked Bush... they won't SAY SO, but I think they see the elevation of the Bush family as an error.

[8 track mind]

24. Nancy Reagan had some choice words for the bush clan if memory serves me

Can't verify it though

[Turbineguy]

19. This is one of those

"Nixon was more progressive than Clinton" posts, I gather. So in that case, rec!

[eleny]

20. Amazing, isn't it?

[blues90]

22. be carefull , what we don't need is an earth quake here

that name can invoke spirits, we have enough trouble here as it is.

[Mike Nelson]

25. Honestly, I thought the post would be taken differently...

...and thanks for the heads up. I see your point.

[Berry Cool]

27. How about "THREE cheers for Ronald Reagan--

--and that's ALL"?? :shrug:

[Joe the Liberal]

28. Yea....ummmm No...just No.

the bad done to this country and other nations by that administration far out does any of the good.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

29. Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... no. A thousand times no. nt

I could care less about the abortion thing, and had he not signed the MLK Holiday (regardless of whether he wanted to or not) the outcry would have been huge. (Remember all the bad press Arizona got for refusing to recognize it?) As I recall he didn't really push it through Congress.

Ron seems to be an intellegent and independent minded guy, but that in no way erases all the damage his father did to the country.

[proteus_lives]

30. I RECed for the sheer balls of this OP.

:rofl:

[Raine]

31. Two wonderful offspring

Ron & Patty as positive legacy! :thumbsup:

[Occam Bandage]

32. K&U

[Art_from_Ark]

33. Make it "Three BRONX cheers for Ronald Reagan"

and you've got a deal.

[anonymous171]

37. And he killed a lot of people in Latin America, among other things

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0607-09.htm

[Hubert Flottz]

38. He killed lots of people in the USA!

Sick people died waiting to get their Social Security Disability...My Dad was one of them.

He made thousands of homeless people, by closing mental hospitals and turning out the people in those.

He even tried to cheat the school kids out of part of their lunch, knowing that one good meal a day at school, was probably all some of those kids had.

He made me tell my kids, "I'm sorry I can't buy you much for Christmas, because I don't have a job."

He lied Just Like George W Bush.

[Art_from_Ark]

39. He also sicced the National Guard on students in Berkeley

Killed one and injured nearly 60 for protesting the development of a park.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

40. Out of those three

<He helped move the USA toward Roe v Wade by legalizing abortion in California!>

Something which he said he regretted doing later.

<He honored Martin Luther King Jr. by signing MLK Holiday!!>

Yes, after making statements sympathizing with Jesse Helms's views of Martin Luther King and after implementing programs and making appointments undermining civil rights


<AND...
He left us a great son, Ron Reagan!!!>
And a horrible excuse for a human being in Michael Reagan. Though I will concede Reagan's actual children turned out to be great people. Even his late daughter Maureen was a liberal republican who adopted a child from Africa, supported the Equal Rights Amendment and thought Oliver North should have been court-martialed

[Hekate]

41. Sorry, I just can't go there. He was my governor, too, and --- no. Thanks for trying, though. nt

[Enthusiast]

42. "Even a broken clock..." nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

43. Seriesly?

:wtf: