Blogcritics: Comments on President Reagan - A spiritual leader passes

Comment by Al Barger

Sat, 12 Jun 2004 22:45:23 EDT

Well, if grandpa was a Klansman, or Strom Thurmond, I'd just have to understand that he'd really earned some hostility, and accept that. On the other hand, if grandpa was a good guy who tried to be nice to everybody as much as possible-like Reagan, then I'd naturally be more expecting of basic respect.

Comment by Douglas Mays

Sat, 12 Jun 2004 21:23:17 EDT

Good analogy! The twisted grandpa theory...

Comment by Al Barger

Sat, 12 Jun 2004 19:48:49 EDT

Okay, Doug. I might have been piling on you somewhat for the sins of all the haters that have been out since he passed. I'm personally ambiguous about his tenure in office, and I particularly disliked his entirely wrongheaded war on drugs, and the constitutional abuses generated thereby. Nonetheless, he was obviously a very nice man trying to do the right thing. Politics aside, it's really ugly to see people talking about him like he was Hitler or Pol Pot. It's like someone hating on my ol' grandpa who never had a harm word to say about anyone.

Comment by Douglas Mays

Sat, 12 Jun 2004 19:35:20 EDT

Sorry Al, the question of drug use was meant to be a positive. I always figured that his 'Boy Scout' image came about because he saw the downfalls of drug use during his Hollywood days, therefore taking a hardcore stance against it. That was my theory 20 years ago. In all reality, the guy was great for international relations, but domestic issues sucked. His acting skills payed off. Like attorneys who take acting classes. The value of his tenure will take time, much like Richard Nixon. I'm still baffled about all the hype though. A Hollywood thing I guess. Sorry about that Chief (in a Maxwell Smart voice) but the drug reference was meant to be a positive... peaceloveguidance

Comment by Al Barger

Sat, 12 Jun 2004 18:38:31 EDT

Douglas, why are you even scratching for such mean crap? Reagan had absolutely no reputation whatsoever for chemical abuse. Not that it necessarily makes him all morally superior, but I doubt he ever so much as puffed a joint. He had no reputation for drinking. Did he ever even smoke a cigarette? The guy really was pretty much of a Boy Scout. You may disagree with whatever you think his policies were, but he was a clean living guy who tried to do right. Also, by any objective measure, helping to drive the collapse of the Soviet Union did much more to advance human liberty and human rights than anything coming from the bleeding heart of Jimmy Carter.

Comment by Douglas Mays

Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:04:42 EDT

One thing I have wondered about Reagan from the beginning of his life as a politician: since his start was in Hollywood, How many drugs has he done? He could have Bush beat in that department... peaceloveguidance

Comment by Douglas Mays

Sat, 12 Jun 2004 14:17:45 EDT

Oh man. How is Reagan getting all this hype upon his death. In punk rock days here in the northwest neck of the woods one would find spray painted walls that say "Raygun = Nazism". Then my old man (a Republican liberal) defended Reagan, thinking he was a great President. Sure he finished icing the cake of the cold war. Very crafty, he went and bankrupt Russia. They didn't see that one coming. Domesticly, the guy was horrible. He really shifted the tax burden of this country to the middle class. Who really got tax cuts?... Civil, human right? Trickle down? Oh god... I can't wait till the scandle is exposed. U.S. agents and PR creating false hype to glorify RR upon his death. peaceloveguidance

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Sat, 12 Jun 2004 12:59:34 EDT

Simple, I like Hate, and hate everything else. Since, in Canada, we have a parliamentary system, I do not vote for the leader of any party. I vote for the candidates in my riding. In this case, I'm voting for the NDP candidate since the Gliberal candidate is a do-nothing former city councillor who stole the nomination from the long time incumbent who didn't back Martin in his leadership campaign. I don't want ideologues, I don't want some self-serving cult of personality or power-mad greed-heads. I want competant administration and transparent good governance which best provides the services which makes a society worth living in. In short, solid Canadian values, peace, order and good government.

Comment by RJ Elliott

Sat, 12 Jun 2004 02:04:38 EDT

Jimmy-boy: Ok, you hated Mulroney. Do you hate Martin too? How about Cretin [or whatever his name was...]? Who DON'T you hate?

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:13:57 EDT

A recent broadcast I heard about, apparently from Fox News claims one of the landmarks Reagan initiated was to make the USA #1 in venereal disease. In particular syphilis, which apparently is a requirement to hold office in the Cabinet. Reagan had a memo which required infection with VD as a sign of good faith in his agenda, since there's nothing like the gift which keeps on giving. Nancy will be holding a memorial "Clap for Ronnie" at the Hollywood Bowl later in the summer.

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:41:19 EDT

Brian Mulroney was the last decent political leader you Canucks had (at least until the current fellow [Paul Martin is it? It's not really important...] took office). RJ, since you are obviously an ignorant goof-ball who doesn't know anything about our government, I'll just mark this down as a comment from a raving fascist pedophile or necrophile, or whatever it is that you zombies are. Y'know, casually insulting and abusing people doesn't make you attractive or interesting. Instead, they just hate you more as an abusive thug. Well, if that is how the USA wants to be percieved by the rest of the world, so be it. Uniform Strident Arseholes -- USA #1

Comment by jack e. jett

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:14:09 EDT

flamable piss sounds like a great name for a band. jack e. jett

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:08:22 EDT

They pee flammable piss in Newfoundland? Wow, those are some hard drinkers. Actually, that's not much of an exaggeration. I once spent three weeks in St. Johns and almost died of the drink. At that time, they didn't have opening and closing hours, only how many consecutive hours you could stay open, so at any given time there was a bar open. I was at one place where a fight broke out, the pugilists got thrown out (and the place had one of those speakeasy sliding little metal traps in the door), a while later the bouncer announced, "I don't want to alarm nobody, but buddy has come back with a shotgun". We exited stage-left out the back door down the alley. If you've ever tasted Screech, you'd know the Newfanese piss fire.

Comment by RJ Elliott

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 01:40:00 EDT

Brian Mulroney was the last decent political leader you Canucks had (at least until the current fellow [Paul Martin is it? It's not really important...] took office). I say Alberta should secede and join the US. Quebec should secede and join France. Nunavut should secede and become an independent country. And what's left of Canada can continue to send their sick to the US, where they'll actually receive some medical treatment in less than 180 days. Oh, and fuck the Calgary Flames. Another Florida team (Tampa Bay0 wins a championship in a major sport. My money is on the Miami Heat next season...

Comment by JR

Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:11:35 EDT

They pee flammable piss in Newfoundland? Wow, those are some hard drinkers.

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:01:22 EDT

Y'know most places in Canada, if you said this: LONG LIVE THE IDEALS OF BRIAN MULRONEY!!! :) You'd get the everloving shit kicked out of you, then they would take what is left and use it as a puck for a game of arse-hole shinny. Except in Newfoundland, where they'd just piss on you, set you on fire and throw you in the bay. That's how much we hate that arsehole.

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:42:16 EDT

RJ, if you don't hate Canadians, you aren't trying hard enough, but I know that self-love/abuse habit is really hard to break. Just give us a chance and we'll kick you right in the prunes, all the while saying, sorry. Spend less time shaking your fist at the ex-girlfriend, and more time on the internet reading about strange lands outside the UnNatural Preserve which is the US of A. Y'know, your country might be nice if your Homeland Security storm troops concentrated on arseholes, forcing them to march cross country on what will probably be called the Honkey-tonk Trail of Tears to spend their days looking after nuclear waste in Nevada. Where they will serve as an eternal warning: Look out, only arseholes here. Go away, we only want our kind.

Comment by RJ Elliott

Wed, 9 Jun 2004 23:00:39 EDT

"Fuck Ronald Reagan. He was the figurehead who taught me to hate the US government as a bunch of power-mad psychotics." Jim, you seem to hate everything about the US, not just its gov't. I'm a better person than you. I don't hate all Canadians. LONG LIVE THE IDEALS OF BRIAN MULRONEY!!! :)

Comment by RJ Elliott

Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:57:15 EDT

"[W]ith his casual nuclear brinkmanship, he tried to kill me. I spent almost all of the 80s with the definite dread that he would start a nuclear war any time now." That's because you're unhinged.

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:36:10 EDT

JC is a carpenter, he builds houses for people. Which is more than you can say for that fake, murderous supporter of terror in Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, Philippines, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Cambodia, Malaysia, Columbia, Peru, Argentina, Chile, South Africa, and so on. Plus, with his casual nuclear brinkmanship, he tried to kill me. I spent almost all of the 80s with the definite dread that he would start a nuclear war any time now. I watched "Miracle Mile" last week, and was reminded how omnipresent the reality that a contrail was a nuclear missile going overhead. Fuck Ronald Reagan. He was the figurehead who taught me to hate the US government as a bunch of power-mad psychotics.

Comment by Phillip Winn

Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:50:45 EDT

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Comment by Eric Olsen

Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:46:17 EDT

this comment rebuild delay is driving me insane

Comment by Eric Olsen

Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:41:26 EDT

It all seems weirdly disconnected from reality since he has really be "gone" for some time, the ceasing of biological function seems less important than when he became nonfunctional.

Comment by John-z

Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:38:53 EDT

Question: Where do all of you left extremist rate the lame ass Jimmy Carter? He had to have had the smallest balls of any President. President is actually a strong term for the peanut man.

Comment by jack e. jett

Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:11:33 EDT

this entire reagan funeral is turning out to be like something from EVITA. i am expecting nancy to appear on a balcony soon and workers lining the street shouting.....ray gun ray gun... as i understand it they will bury him in late january. jack