Blogcritics: Comments on Reagan rides into sunset

Comment by Curt

Sun, 6 Jun 2004 22:40:41 EDT

Kudos to kuro: best verse, couldn't get any verse. Rodney: fab graph, love the name. Shark, I'm a Gemini. I enjoy small animals, packing my mouth full of JumBlos and trying to find my horoscope while driving at high speeds. Dirtgrain, read up, man. Reagan didn't start the mujaddin. You're thinking Brian Wilson, who got a close assist from George Harrison.

Comment by Shark

Sun, 6 Jun 2004 16:07:18 EDT

"After more than a decade of suffering with Alzheimer's, Reagan's passing must be a blessing to his devoted wife Nancy and his once-estranged children, whose names escaped him for years even before he was diagnosed, and look, now they're escaping me too. No, wait. His was was Ron Reagan, good-lookin' ballarino turned talked show host, and his daughter was Princess Lei, and I believe she wrote a nasty book about her parents, Bing Crosby and Joan Crawford, or maybe that was somebody else's kid." Funny stuff, CWF

Comment by Shark

Sun, 6 Jun 2004 07:23:11 EDT

re: Rodney Welch's history lesson: On the contrary, history will reveal "Raygun ends Communism" as a huge myth. Communism was headed for the grave when the Russians got their first taste of Pepsi, Levis, and rock and roll. It had nothing to do with Raygun. And it didn't help that they had to wait in line for empty bread shelves. In other news, I read that Nancy did Ronnie's horoscope yesterday; it said, "You'll be going on a long journey..." PS: Fisher, what's yer sign? I'm a gemini -- which means I'm skeptical of astrology. The weird thing: IT'S TRUE!

Comment by Dirtgrain

Sun, 6 Jun 2004 00:02:44 EDT

". . . he ended the Cold War with Russia, and that he set into motion the end of Communism." How? Oh, I know. He did it by empowering the Mujahideen. Thanks, Mr. President.

Comment by Rodney Welch

Sat, 5 Jun 2004 22:36:55 EDT

So often when people talk about the legacy of a passing leader what they're really talking about are their own biases. It's a little more to the point to ask yourself what, in a hundred years from now, people will say about Reagan -- long after all the pro or con passion he evoked among the living has died down. To me, it seems beyond question that the main thing, the overriding thing, will be that he ended the Cold War with Russia, and that he set into motion the end of Communism. People don't like to admit this, of course, because no one likes to think that President Potatohead, as I used to call him, ever did anything but hurt poor people. They say, instead, things like "Communism sank of its own weight," to which I'm inclined to say "Yes, especially after Reagan gave it cement boots." He gave it a push. I don't vote for Republicans and I never voted for Reagan, but I grudgingly found myself liking him personally, almost against my will. He was someone you could only hate in the abstract -- a point even his toughest political foes would probably admit. Was he smart? No. Did he lack substance? Certainly. Did he firmly believe in a handful of ideas? Yes. Were they good ideas? A few. Did America prosper as a result of his leadership? Some did, sure; some suffered. When it's all said and done, did he change the world for the better? When you add up all the pluses and minuses, the balance falls in his favor.

Comment by

Sat, 5 Jun 2004 22:04:17 EDT

yeah... he was a doddering idiot. The best of many, before and after, the idiot's idiot, a moron before being a moron was cool.

Comment by Shark

Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:57:22 EDT

Raygun's legacy will be the final, all-encompassing triumph of Marketing over Substance, the extinction of Reality in favor of Ambiance. We got an actor playing the President, a nation playing an audience, and World History as cheezy Hollywood plot. (That "happy ending" thing might not be such a given, tho.) ...well...

Comment by kuro

Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:35:34 EDT

in true empire fashion will the senate decree that Ronald Reagan be made a God? It was the custom to consecrate popular emperors after their deaths, declaring them a minor god. Vestavia (23 AD) was heard to say as he was about to die, "Oh my, I fear I am about to become a god!"