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Ronald Reagan is dead. Now I wish I had something witty or insightful to say about the old guy. His presidency has receded too far into the background for me to feel any resentment. If I indeed I did. I suspect mostly I laughed. After Richard Nixon, Reagan and George Bush don't seem that horrifying. Though some might argue the latter's mess in Iraq is more hurtful than anything the other two Republican presidents did. The American invasion of Grenada was merely risible.

I haven't checked any of the online papers to mark what must be a mighty flood of hagiography. Pious praise of the Reagan Vision. Boneheaded bombast about his leadership.

I'll remember the Reagan presidency for two things. The first was condensed into a phrase by the astrologer loving Nancy Reagan: "Just say no." My use of recreational drugs had ended long before Reagan entered the White House. The War on Drugs revived to send many harmless people to jail. To subject employees to the humiliation invasion of drug testing. My libertarian side says let people entertain and damn themselves according to their own wishes. And don't make crime so profitable.

Mostly I'll remember President Ron as the man who began the deepening of ties between American fundagelicals and the Republican Party. A boost in ignorant office holders who believe the Genesis account of the creation of life on earth. And political job seekers willing to cuddle up to them and the moral bigots.

This bedfellowship today gives us the Republicans enflaming and pandering to backwater Baptists with a talk of a constitutional amendment forbidding same-sex couples to celebrate their relationships as foolishly as heterosexuals.

That is my notion of the Reagan legacy.

Richard Evans Lee
June 06, 2004 •
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An evil presense has left our timeline. Reagan was only the body used by a very evil force. An Evil that's responsible for the slaughter of countless innocent people, the beginning of the end of democracy in America, the end of the human side of our country. If I believed in Christianity I'd say that Reagan now sits at the right hand of Satin or perhaps he is Satin. For all those weeping today, your tears are the same tears as those who cried for Hitler and Milosovich and Stalin. For myself, I'll quietly celebrate every June 5th. Time did what justice couldn't, that of cleansing humanity of this despicable stain called Reagan

Posted by: v1111 | June 6, 2004 10:58 AM

Let us not forget how he neglected all the people who died of a word he refused to utter.

Posted by: Friends Lost to AIDS | June 6, 2004 11:03 AM

I had the pelasure of meeting Mr. Reagan a few times in the days of his Presidency. No matter what the extreme left liberals have to say about the man, he was deffinetly one of the best Presidents you Americans ever had, wether you admit it or not. You shouldn't dwell on the things he did wrong (or what you think he did wrong), but on the things he did right. Perhaps you aren't thinking clearly, so I'll refresh your memory. Reagan was President at the point in the Cold War that could have nearly went beyond the Cuban Missle Crisis in extremity in less then five seconds. While the liberals were screaming for gay rights and drug sentiments, the conservatives were atleast TRYING to prepare for a possible war. I have the most profound respect for a man that was capable of seeing through the mask of my former superiors. While myself and some others tryed our best to back off the top leaders of our homeland, it was Reagan who forced the war back into freezing. You should be thanking him.

Posted by: Anomynous (Red Army Veteran) | June 7, 2004 8:58 PM

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My thanks,
Richard

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