Very sad. He was president when I was born, jeez. I feel old. >_>

But Bush is still alive. :(

See ya, Gipper.

Rest in Peace, Mr. President. >HERO<

93 even...

93

Good...Now can we resume normal broadcasts?

Wasn't he 93?

/salute, Mr. President. Rest in peace at last...

Rest in peace, Mr. President.

Now let's get stem cell research passed so that diseases like Alzheimers can be destroyed.

God Bless You, Mr. President

:-'(

May he rest in peace.

...or 93, which is what everyone else is reporting.

He was always a commie anyway.

RIP

93? damn, somehow i didn't think he was that old.

ohwell, RIP

Bedtime for Bonzo!

Me too Magikki, I remember the wall comming down. Good times, Good times. RIP Ron.

Take that, evil stem cell research!

RIP GIP

A sad day in United States history. Love him or hate him.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Rest in peace.

Hail to the Chief.

*For good coverage, check out C-SPAN, they're taking calls and it's just like this thread!*

He was actually 93 years old... why did this innacurate one get greenlighted?

Very sad, even if I disagree with him a lot.

I had a much funnier headline! Thanks for firing my dad Ronnie! Best thing you ever did!

Wow you Farkliters should see the TF page... in 30 minutes this got submitted once for every year Reagan was old and then some. Nice work, boys.

I will always remember him as the man who changed punk/hardcore music. All those songs againts him from MDC, DRI etc...

Lying right-wing neo-con poster! He was 93, not 94!

/flame on cuz I got nothin'

(brief salute) didn't like your policies, but I DO respect you. rest in peace. 93 is a good age...

Man, he was the President of my childhood. The first president I knew. And as a kid, he always seemed real nice.

Without the X-Presidents, who will save us now??????

And now Bush, America's evilest president, can mourn the passing of America's 3rd evilest president, in the knowledge that someday, when he too, becomes old and dessicated, all his sins will be forgiven.

Love or hate his actions or policies, the man was a true leader. Godspeed, Gipper. We need more men like you.

Damn, I hope I live to be 93!

MAAAANNN.. I remember when I was a kid and someone told me he used to star in Movies, and I was Floored. Much Like I am floored right now finding out he's dead. Sheesh. Hope he enjoys the flip side.

only 3 years too late for my dead pool entry. thanks, ronnie.

Burn, motherfarker. Burn.

Rest In Peace, sir.

See ya, Ron. Much as I didn't like you as a man, at least yours and Nancy's pain from that horrible disease is over.

Here's a good epitaph:

"We did not, repeat, did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages, nor will we" - President Ronald Reagan, in a live broadcast from the Oval Office on November 13, 1986.

Rest well.

Rest in peace, Gipper.

Sadly, we lost this great man years ago due to his disease. Now he's gone for good.

The only president during my life that I even respected...

madcharlie - Neither did he ;)

Man, a president dies and we can't ever get his age right? 'Tis a sad.

You know, with the 8 billion submissions we TFers have seen in the last 20 minutes, you think they could have picked one with the right age.

All that aside, rest in peace.

Now I'm leaving before I get pissed off at all the assholes.

Love him or hate him, it's is unfortunate when someone dies and we can look back and realize he lived a full, rich life and his family is now content knowing he's no long suffering. That's all anyone can ask with a terminal illness.

Out of all the news flash submissions, why the one with the wrong age?

/alzheimer's

Ding dong the witch is dead, the wicked witch is dead...

I always did kinda like the ole guy. Seemed would be a very warm, gentle person to know. Rest in peace.

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

Best President Evar.

Rest in Peace, Mr. President.



Anyone have a bigger image of this?

RIP Gipper. fark the Bozos.

I think the 94 refers to the number of minutes he remembered from his time in office.

I don't know about him as a guy, but one of the worst presidents ever. Socially conservative, fiscally liberal. His administration spent more in its 8 years than the country had spent in its entire 200+ years before 1981. The Iran-Contra scandals, the lies, the "I don't knows".....

Still, it's never a happy occasion to hear that anyone has died. At least he got to live a very long life, right?

Hero or Sad tag more appropriate

Hasta la vista baby

Good Riddence.

Can Bush be next?

Reagan's epitaph: "Mistakes were made"

roger_lamothe

I will always remember him as the man who changed punk/hardcore music. All those songs againts him from MDC, DRI etc...

I wish I had been around during that period of punk rock.

If the anti-bush crowd's best representative in the punk scene is Fat Mike, we should be scared.

/only 20

This is about as sad as when Nixon died...

He's in a better place now. Thanks for everything, Ron.


/now who's next in the trifecta?

RIP, Mr. President.

so why was he great? Factual posts only..no worship posts.

sorry he and his family had to suffer from the devastations of Parkinson's

I didn't care for many of Reagan's policies, especially his support for the aparthaid governmnet in South Africa, and he did LIE thru his dentures during Iran-Contra, but compared to Bush Lite, he was a true statesman.

RIP Gipper!

I heard that Bill Brasky ate him, and then shiat a Volkswagen.

/Bill Brasky... he's a bastard and we love him

And you just know that Bush is going to milk this for all its worth for his campaign. I wonder how tacky he's going to get this time.

damn i liked my link

"Ronald Reagan in his most dramatic role ever, dies. Knute Rockne called it the forward pass."

/Simpsons

*sits back and watches the thread turn into a flamefest*

:/

"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

-Ronald Reagan

Dr. Emmet Brown: Then tell me, "future boy", who is president in the United States in 1985?


Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan.


Dr. Emmet Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor?! Who's Vice President? Jerry Lewis?


Marty McFly: What?


Dr. Emmet Brown: I suppose Jane Wyman is the first lady! And Jack Benny is secretary of the treasury! I've had enough practical jokes for one evening! Good day, future boy!

I think he got alzheimers from drinking the water in D.C.

too much lead in the water.

Great leaders bring people together: Reagan did not.

If only he'd held off until the beginning of November. That selfish bastard.

See ya later, Mr. Reagan...you'll always be in pictures...

/digression from usual liberal commie self...

"We start bombing in 5 minutes"
"I don't recall"
"Well..."

RIP Reagan

Art Vandalay

Compared to our current radical President, it's Bush Sr. who should be called "Bush Lite".

Rest in peace, Mr. President.

If Reagan were here on Fark, he'd whip your asses like you were a bunch of commie air traffic controllers. May God rest his soul.

So much ignorance...the greatest champion of freedom, the greatest President in quite some time. It's amazing how ignorant of history and absolute Partisan people can be. No shock that the quasi-communists hate the man who brought down communism. God bless him.

He well be remembered as one of the great ones.

christ, people, show some respect.

How old was he again?

;0

I hope I don't go like that. What a rotten way to deteriorate and die. I really feel sorry for his family having to go through that kind of suffering, and of course I'm sure it was no fun for him either. It's almost a shame that he has been in such isolation for so long because I don't think anyone would be opposed to stem cell research if they saw firsthand how truly devastating this disease is.

PS: I'm not a total farker, but I'd be willing to bet there were a ton of submissions for this story. How did this one, with the wrong age, get selected? Half the articles I've read on the web have "93" right there in the headline. Oh well.

RIP A true patriot!!! He was the first president that I voted for. He will be missed by all who seek freedom!!!

Well, they've got about ten minutes to get the head off, or he'll be back and hungry....

good bye, Mr Reagan. You will be missed. My condolences to the Reagan family. Nancy is an incredible woman for the love and devotion she gave him during his health decline.

So long, Gipper.... we'll miss ya.

So sad to know that I hated him when he was president (I was just a kid anyway.) It wasn't until he left office and I realized that I was mainly a conservative and was able to read about some of the things he did for America that I started to admire him. Whether you are a conservative or liberal, you had to admire the way he inspired America and dealt with the cold war. Just because of winning the cold war, we are better off today. How many presidents can say that?

Farewell fellow patriot. America is still the light of the world. Thank you for helping us believe that.

I can't believe some of the comments I've read in here. What the hell is wrong with some of you? This man was one of the greatest Presidents ever (even if you're a lib, you know it's true) and he's dead. Where I come from it's disrespectful to make light of the death of someone, even if you didn't like them. Have some farkin' respect!

RIP, Mr. President.

/American by birth, Southern by the grace of God (which means I have respect for the dead).

Dinosaurs will die.
More to come.

Best President Ever.

Rest in Peace, Mr. President.

You were one of the greatest we ever had, particularly in the 20th century.

Actually, Dick Stoken (Historian of the Presidency) listed him as one of the 'Paradigm Setting Presidents' in his classification system. We are still following in his political climate.

Come to think of it, most of the greater presidents in his system (in terms of monumental achievements) were of the Republican Party/alignment of the conservative area. Knock one out to that, DNC.

We'll miss you Ronnie

To all those who are happy he is dead ... get some class. Love him or hate him, he was a good man.

i'm pretty liberal and whatnot, but reagan was the president for much of my childhood. my granddad thought the man was a saint.
i didn't think this would as sad as it is for me.

see you in another life reagan.

Here's an idea, no matter how witty a rebuttal you may have, ignore the trolls! Have some respect, people, he's another human being who just stood up for his point of view. If your point of view is different, fine, but act like mature adults and show some respect.

From the MSNBC Breaking News email alert:

"Former President Ronald Reagan has died, The Associated Press reports - Ronald Reagan, the cheerful crusader who devoted his presidency to winning the Cold War, trying to scale back government and making people believe it was "morning again in America," died Saturday after a long twilight struggle with AdzHaimer's disease. He was 93."

You'd think they'd run a spell check before blasting the alert out to the net. I guess they wanted to beat the CNN email alert (which they did by about a minute), but once again MSNBC shows how incompetent they are.

the funny thing is that fox news keeps going back and forth on the age.

plus i think its really classy of you haters out there to not even wait a couple hours before you start bashing them.

Heh heh, he DID say "well" a lot.

/Rappin' Ronnie Reagan

Great leaders polarize people.

That's the dumbest thing I've read on this Internet this week. Congrats!

BTW...

RIP President Reagan

/best President ever

May God grant you eternal peace Mr. President.

Why ? He's dead. :-)

dear kindly ronald reagan
forgive us if we're frank
we saw you in "the gipper"
and, man, you really stank.

"West Coast Story", Mad Magazine, April 1971

Good thing there was a lot of suffering involved.

Like Migikki, I now feel old(er); though Carter was prez when I was born.

In honor of his memory, I think I'll reorganize my Garbage Pail Kid Collection.

/I probably have a dozen or so Ronnie Raygun's

:-(

Sad. R.I.P. :(

huggies surrenders

Be nice people...

I was a rabid republican in the Reagan years, then I wised up...

I feel bad that his family facilitated his existence long after he was living... God speed Mr. President.

Crossbuster

Look (listen) into the Minutemen
RIP D. Boon

Reagan was the president of my childhood,,, which makes me feel old like you others.

It's so insane to even think about a candidate pulling 49 states in a re-election campaign nowadays.

God Bless Ronald Reagan!

I'm not religious at all, and neither was he, but he was the kind of man who made you believe in good and evil, and there was a God who wanted good to triumph.

It's a sad day everywhere in the free world.

my submission:

"Ronald Reagan dies aged 93. Headline NOT to be repeated later for comedic effect"

Great leaders get shiat done, the rest is feel-good lib bullshiat.

Rest in peace, Ronnie. Greatest President of the 20th Century.

mr_bunny

yeah, now we just have the dead kennedys, minus Jello Biafra, which is crap.

DK - Jello != DK

RIP =(

He signed my graduation diploma. Reagan did the best with all that he was given, may he rest in peace. Having said that, I still do not like the way he called in the troops to confront us at UC.

RIPB Reagan, godspeed. You may have been contraversial in a time when the world was 1 button push from being eliminated, but if there is one thing thing you did was held your ground. That in itself changed the world.
/hat off

Rest in peace.

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."


No matter how much libs hate him, this is how history will remember him.

People from the 50's until the 80's lived in the constant shadow of the mushroom cloud. How many children woke up in a cold sweat imagining everything around them and everyone the knew was destroyed? The Early Warning system could mean a thousand missiles heading in your direction, instead of some hail that might dent your car.

Ronald Reagan won the Cold War. He bet that American industry could outproduce and outspend the Russians, and it worked. We have a whole generation that can actually go a day without thinking that tomorrow, the ground they stand on could be a glassy plain.

BTW, he had zip to do with the collapse of the USSR. It was well on its way before-hand. We can thank Brezhnev for that.

Dead president better not cut into the Belmont stakes. Go Smarty!

And since when did dying make anyone a hero?

IMHO:
Dying for a cause can be heroic, but the actual heroic part of it is putting your life at risk for a cause. The death itself isn't heroic because it isn't something you controlled (unless you knew you were going to die, and that is the ultimate sacrifice). Thus, if two people do the same things except one dies and the other doesn't, they are both just as heroic. We hear about the ones who died, not the ones who risked their lives and lived.

To all those calling him a cocksucker and such, I hope your grandparents go through what his family went through.

RIP Gipper. The scoreboard will always read...

Reagan: 1
Communism: 0

Thanks, Mr. President.

I didn't agree with him then. I don't agree with him now. I respect the office that he held for eight years. Rest in peace. I suppose.

Old Mother Reagan
And her crew
Took away
From me and you
I hope she goes far away
She better go far away
Y'know it ain't right
When it's all wrong
This is the Old Mother Reagan
Protest song
Old Mother Reagan
She's so dumb
She's so dangerous
How come...
Old Mother Reagan went to heaven
But at the pearly gates
She was stopped!

And so the passing of an incredibly powerful and respected man. Today is a day to put politics aside...or reinforce silly stereotypes. Fark on, farkers. My thought are with the Reagans today.

It's times like these I like to ponder the afterlife, and I take comfort knowing that Ronald Reagan is probably being assraped in Hell by the people killed by the terrorists he supported.

Oh well. Let's dig one for the Gipper...

/hellbound

First hit on Google Images for "Ronald Reagan".

This thread is on its way to being the fastest to infinity...

Er, what he went thgough.

I was 13 when he became president, and he was such a breath of fresh air after Carter. Then the way he handled the attempt on his life was just so impressive to me. I know I was just a stupid kid at the time, but he really inspired me with his optimism and I became a better American because of it. Of course the luster wore off in his second term, and I became more politically "aware", but that first term of his was just something else. I didn't think I would feel so oddly sad about his death, but I do. He was a pretty cool guy. Rest in Peace Ron.

Of course, one of my favorite memories is where he mistakenly spoke into a open microphone saying "I have just signed legislation outlawing Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes".

Just trying to inject a little humor here.

RIP Ronnie

it's days like today that i wish i believed in hell.

Rest in Peace
Glad to have served with you as the commander in chief.
Best President since Teddy Roosevelt

Good man? If you call helping to blacklist fellow actors who pissed him off as COMMIES during the wonderful heyday of the McCarthy era as being a good man, then you are seriously farked in the head.

Kinda funny, man sold his soul to the christian devil, and the way he has to pay the devil back is to have his mind rotting away so that any glory he may have felt is erased by the scourge of Alzhiemers, which, ironically, Stem Cell research could have found a cure for by now.

Actually, it's ironic. Don't ya think?

RIP Ronnie, you made the 80s suck less.

Whatever his politics, he leaves behind a loving wife and three children. I wish them the best as they learn to deal with their loss.

Today I will speak no ill of the dead.

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin"

-Ronald Reagan


Godspeed, Gipper.

theironchef

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."


No matter how much libs hate him, this is how history will remember him.

So are you actually saying this is an intelligent quotation? Sounds like a cheap insult to me. I'd have to side with the "libs" here.

As a Canadian who grew up during the Reagan presidency, I can make this observation: whatever your opinion of the man, he definitely jazzed some life into your country, at a time when malaise seemed to dominate every facet of American life. I didn't agree with everything he did or said, but I can respect the man.

RIP.

I'll trash him tomorrow.

"We're all Republicans today"

Sam Donaldson just said that on ABC. I swear.

ABC is enbarassing Fox with their neocon propaganda coverage. Fox fans should be watching ABC instead.

Okay, I can understand Reagan worship..but to call him the Greatest President? double You Teee Effff

We're still paying the bills he ran up.

Rest in Peace, Mr. President

so, does this mean that we can finally end the war on drugs?

Good

The whole idea of Reagan the Hero President boldly winning the Cold War is based on an essential lie, and that lie was that the Soviet Union was a powerful, functional nation that Reagan defeated. By the time we was President, change was already in the air. People were not going to remain passively under the will of extreme Communist asshats forever. He was President during the end of the Cold War, and he may have had a hand in the way everything played out, and I'm not saying he was a vile, evil man or anything, but I just dislike this inaccurate, random hero worship the guy always gets.

Rest in peace, Mr. President. Your legacy shall live on.

36 people keep the world from self destruction. First Pat Tillman, now Ronnie... Who can fill their shoes?
36 people

Rockin Ron. Peaceout.

/thanks for axing douchebags like vortmaxou mods

I'll trade in 2 bushes for one reagan

So are they gonna have a video montage of the last 10 years set to whimsicle cartoon music?

:(

Great leaders don't bring people together, because in reality people don't come together.

So Napolean and Hitler kinda sucked as leaders since they united their nation?

Andrew Johnson did a great job of polarizing the US after the civil war...great leader?

Sorry, great leaders unite their people (often at the expense of other nations/peoples).

In other news, Babs Streisand and Jim Brolin seen high fiving each other and breaking into a case of ridiculously expensive champagne.

It's always sad to hear that a former world leader such as himself has died, whether you like his politics or not. PE Trudeau garnered the same mixed sentiment in Canada when he died, but everyone had to agree that, love him or hate him, he made his mark. And so has Reagan. Hats off.

sarty

You said it all.

All other comments are null, void and worthless. sarty wins. You can close the thread now.

/not best nor worst president ever

About 15,000 civilians were slaughtered in Nicaragua by the Contras, who sometimes referred to themselves as "The Sons of Reagan."

Burn, cocksucker.

I can't say that enough! Feels so good...

(repeated from last thread)

Before I go through all the comments, I just want to wish the Gipper Godspeed. He was always my favorite President and I think always will be. Nancy is a wonderful woman and gave all of herself to her husband through thick and thin. May God grant the family peace when Ronnie decides to head off into the sunset.

God Bless You!

R.I.P.

Ronald "Ronnie Raygun" Reagan


My best Reagan memory...

11 Aug 1984 Not realizing that his weekly radio address is already on the air, President Ronald Reagan quips into his live microphone: "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

May God bless his family and friends and provide comfort in their time of need.

Oh, and CNBC is still playing a paid program. I'm sure they'll be patting themselves on the back for that move tomorrow.

PS. Is the fark clock messed up? It feels like it's 10 minutes late

FYI - link for that Reagan "bomb Russia" audio clip.

http://reagan.webteamone.com/sounds/bombing.au

/can't do HTML worth a crap

Whatever his politics, he leaves behind a loving wife and three children. I wish them the best as they learn to deal with their loss.

Today I will speak no ill of the dead.

That's pretty much what I came in here to write. RIP.

the russians vilified us as much as we did them. thats what kept our two nations at bay

Someone should have told him --

Up up down down left right left right B, A, start.

In November 1986, it was disclosed that United States had been selling arms to Iran. Reagan went on television and vehemently denied that any such sale had occurred. He retracted this statement a week later, insisting that the sale of weapons had not been an arms-for-hostages deal. In March 1987, Reagan was forced to issue a second retraction, admitting that the deal had been arms-for-hostages after all.

Shipping arms to Iran violated an arms embargo against that country, and bargaining with terrorists violated Reagan's campaign promise never to do so.

-------

Just sayin'. That's just one of the Reagan-era scams. You types posting "hero" stuff are amusing us with your ignorance.

His soul is now trickling down...

Are we all over the first shock? Can someone then explain this to a non-US farker: I always had the impression that >99% of Americans thought that Reagan was the greatest president ever (because he beat the commie bastards etc. (he didn't BTW. Gorbachev did it for him)).
But when I read this thread, I am starting to doubt this. So, why do you guys hate Reagan so much?

Rest in Peace, Ronald Reagan.

In these dark days, we shall not forget that you were our .

/Wishes we had more presidents like him.

Started his 2nd term year I was born. Good to know he's at rest after the last decade.

Not a fan of the policies, but he's a human being like the rest of us, and I wish his family the best.

Hmm. I actually managed to see the headline on the main page when there were still just 0 comments.



/is my prize a ticket?

RIP. Alzheimer's is a terrible way to go, I feel sorry for his family.

While I respect him for his remarkable and varied life, I think he was an utter failure as a President.

That's just my opinion.

Oh yeah life goes on
Long after the thrill of livin is gone
Oh yeay say life goes on
Long after the thrill of livin is gone, they walk on

Rest in peace, Mr. President.

Fark clock seems to be 10 min behind

Reagan was a god. Now he's up in Heaven with the other big man, where he belongs.

I have a feeling that this thread has a great deal of potential for the Mother-of-all-Flamewars.

/no opinion on the this event otherwise

I am deeply sadden by all of the negative comments. If you know your history, you will know that this is one of the greatest presidents of the past 50 years. Those 25 or under have no understanding of what this president did for you. You never had to face the thoughts of nuclear holocaust from Russia. Re-read your history before you tarnish the name of one of the greatest US PATRIOTS!!!

Rest In Peace President Regan.

My thoughts are with his family and friends.

You Reagan haters should be careful. When Clinton eventually gets killed by a jealous husband, WE might not be so compassionate either.

Good riddance.

Rest in Peace

God Bless

RIP dude

RIP my good man. You did the world a service, and we will not forget you for it.

uillchi, yeah, blame him for that bad haircut you once had too.

Why does he get credit for "winning" the Cold War? Just because communism collapsed during Reagan's presidency doesn't mean he had anything to do with it. I derive no pleasure from the man's death, but he was not the hero that some of the Reagan-worshippers are making him out to be.

Nice. Fox is having a phone conversation with Falwell. Their smart over in Murdoch's den.

Ronald Reagan challenges Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. Several years later the Berlin Wall comes down.

.: Ronald Reagan tore down the Berlin Wall.

Ronald Reagan challenges the sun to rise the next day. The sun rises the next day.

.: Ronald Reagan made the sun rise.

Mercifully, This thread is movie too fast and too overwhelmingly for the troll-cocktard suvrat types to be noticed.


Good bye Ronnie

I was in the military during his administration. He was an evil bastard, and now he'll reap what he sowed.

Godspeed, Gipper.

A funny thing happened. I turned on Fox News, and my TV a-splode.

strange, that.

Great obituary of the BBC: "Reagan: Errol Flynn of the B-movies" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/265585.stm

To those of you that are trashing the man I say grow the F up. He got this country back on its feet when we were down. He built the military that is capable of kicking any country's ass in the world. Don't think that benefits you? Well next time you turn on your built in China TV or your made in Korea waffle iron thank American Naval power that this man built for allowing secure international trade. You're talking about the man that punked the Evil Empire and ended communism. RIP Dutch, you were the last true American President.

Their, they're. Whatever

Now, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton [..] are the surviving ex-presidents.

They make them sound like a band working the casino circuit.

Reagan, best President in my lifetime (40 yrs).

and me without a bottle of champagne. off to the store...

I remember "trickle down economics" and all that olly-north crap from tv when I was about eight, but most of all I remeber the fall of the berlin wall. Any person that affects the world as much as he did (good and bad) deserves our gratitude.

RIP Mr. Pres.

He was a great face for an evil agenda that polarized the world and set the tone for the 20 years sence his election.

That said, he was probably personally was great. But publically, he was a foolish person.

It wasn't that long ago that I found out he was actually still alive. Seriosuly. For a long time I thought he was dead.

A great man, a great President. Very sad day for all of America. Whether you liked him or not, it cannot be disputed he changed the world we lived in and the effects of his presidency are still felt today.

Would you rather have Gippers or KongBucks?

/Stephenson

RIP to whatever end you believed in.

RIP President Reagan.

A great man and an excellent president.

Yeah its an age thing too. If you were alive and voting in the 80's you got a much broader view of what was up. The cold war was expensive as hell, and no one thought it was going to end with anything other than a bomb. But it did end, and it was great, and now we have more problems that in a lot of ways make those look small. In the early 80s and before getting wiped by a nuke from a foreign nation was more of a reality to most than it is now. Getting us out of that without loosing a continent was no small issue. The fall out of all those years of madness is still screwing things up today. If you were there or if you read up on it you can see how we are still pulling away from cold war logic, politics, and agression. The middle east and Africa and South America are only now starting to change, and its nasty and will take more years than most of us have to unfark. Regan got the ball rolling though, and yeah, there were plenty who thought ending it and moving on was not a good idea then but he did it anyway.

Bye bye Uncle Ronnie.

That's old.

*sigh*

downstairs perfectly summarized this thread...

We're here together because a great man has died. Whether you agreed with his politics or not, you cannot debate that he served his country with conviction and character, and should be honored as such. Despite my many disagreements with Jimmy Carter's politics, I would be still be saying that if he had died.

That said...

I'm glad that President Reagan has finally died. His continued existence must have been an unimaginable misery for both himself and his family, to see him go from being the "Great Communicator" to a man who can't even remember his own name.

Rest in peace, sir.

Godspeed Gipper.

George W. Bush is doing everything he can to make a mockery of your values, but we'll stop it in six months.

Rest in Peace Mr. President. I would say more, but this is not the forum to truly honor your legacy.

"Mother, is that you?"


/Just say NO!

barneyfifesbullet
"We're all Republicans today"
Sam Donaldson just said that on ABC. I swear.

"We're all Republicans today, sir" is what the surgeon replied when Ronald Reagan asked him if he was a Republican or a Democrat as he lay on the operating table after being shot. It has nothing to do with propaganda, ABC or FOX. I'll let you get back to your bong now...

RIP, sir. Thank You.

Have his people told him about THIS?

So true, it needed repeating.

Amen.

Rest in Peace. God Bless America.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing will begin in five minutes.

Ronald Reagan

You know, for a group usually labeled as "pacifists," leftists sure are a bunch of hateful people.

R.I.P. Mr. President

But for the rest of us, especially those of us who were fortunate to have served in the military while he was CIC, he was a great President.

Yeah, all those blank checks he signed for the Pentagon (and GOP contributors) were real healthy for the country.

/sarcasm

I love that man.

Liberals didn't laugh:
"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

I thought it was hilarious.

that's a shame.

the only good president is a dead one.

This means I won't have anything to watch on TV for day. All sorts of hoopla over a man who's truly greatest attribute to society was starring with a monkey. I can't wait until next week when no one remembers him or his so called legacy.

/saw his "policies" first-hand and they sucked

Great, so now we must endure the stupendous redundancy of all major news outlets covering the same "story" for the next few days. His public service ended 15 years ago, perhaps the media should consider covering something relevant.

P.S. I'm sure that whatever part of his mind that was intact welcomed death. People who claim to care about the man should celebrate.

Politicization is imminent, unfortunately.

You all shold turn on Fox news. They're giving him the biggest posthumous wang-sucking ever. Pitiful.

bbwh,

Those 25 or under have no understanding of what this president did for you.

Let me guess. You happen to be 26. Sorry, dude, but your age has very little to do with understanding of events.

I was born in 78 and remember very little of Reagan's presidency. It's only after going back and reading about it that I realize how much he truly did for our country.

Outlawing russia speech

Nice. Fox is having a phone conversation with Falwell.

He'll probably blame Reagan's death on the decline of morality in America. American moral decay already killed 3000 on 9/11 so it's not much of a leap to blame the sodomites for Ron's death.

Break out the barbeque honey, it's party time!
Good riddance, damn politicians need to die off quicker.

Damn! Shoulda gone for the turbo scroll wheel!

It's sickening to me that so many would speak ill of the dead this way. You guys who are doing this are piss poor ambassadors for the progressive side. This is reminding me of the Memorial Day thread which got trashed by the same childish asshats. Just sad.

Treat the man exactly how you hope others would treat Clinton if he had died today. The Golden Rule is still a great way to live.

RIP Ron.

You deserve a break from the attacks of the liberals.

We shall miss you

Requiem for Reagan, America's Greatest President