One of the greatest Presidents passes away. Ronald Reagan.

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>One of the greatest Presidents passes away. Ronald Reagan.</div>

[Imakeholesinu]

<div style='font: 10pt Impact; text-align: left; '>So that's why flags at the horse race were at half-staff. Truely a great loss.</div>

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>So long Ronnie Raygun.</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Yep....I bet the Iranians are sad about this one...</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Only a conservative could say that and not snicker.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Good riddens. May he burn in hell next to Nixon.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I thought you were a conservative *snicker*.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>One of the greatest ever? Wow. My condolences (sp?) and all, but he's not even remotely close to one of the best ever. Your Republican legend grows....</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>He was a close friend of G-Man's from childhood, so you gotta cut him a bit of slack</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>adn for a non sarcastic comment, You know it's a damn good thing. the guy couldn't have been comfortable and really, I'd rather be dead than have increasingly debilitating altzheimers.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>I knew all you commie pinkos would say something like this (except Derith). Enjoy the news and documentaries about him.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Yep. I was saddned by this.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>When he left the office, this country became the sole superpower of the world without starting a world war. Not many leaders can boast that.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Coz they held the American hostages for almost a year?</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>You can't deny that he left the world a different place; the cold war was all but over, the US was stronger, he beat qaddaffi in quiet peace. Compared to Arafat, he's leagues better.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I'm respectful of the fact that a man has died, but I don't feel a personal loss.</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>No because where are they gonna get their weapons?</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>I felt more sorry for the guy than anything. really I am glad he died because noone deserves to suffer like that. I don't shed any tears for him but he really had degenerated so far that dying is not a sad thing</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>recession....trickle-down, star wars, Contra, I can go on....</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Oh, he definetely left the world in a different place. His mark on history is undeniable........</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>It's interesting watching the canned news segments that the news channels have had sitting around since the day he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Anyway, this day was a long time coming and feel sorry for his family for having watch him go out that way....</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>"Commie pinkos"? LOL!</div>

[Tortolia]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I love how even a simple "Hey, one of our former presidents died" news item turns into a political pissing match. Grow up.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>you definitely went trolling with this thread, and I'm pretty dissapointed like Tort is</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>I'm sorry but I fail to see the trolling. as a conservative regan would have been one of his favorite presidents' since when is stating his honest opinion trolling. (Holy fuck I can't believe I'm backing G-man on something....)</div>

[Tortolia]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>For whatever it's worth, my comment wasn't in response to G-Man, but the conservative bashing that commenced afterwards. Christ, if you disagree with his politics or his legacy, make a separate fucking thread in Ruminations and you guys can have a pissing match all day long.</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Where was the pissing match. all anyone said was oh it's too bad or whatnot. no arguments were started. son't read into stuff that isn't there</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Well, if my opinion about Reagan enrages them, it's their own character faults. Not mine.</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Exactly. in no way do I see an attempt at trolling</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>...by fueling the Cold War and building lots and lots of useless nuclear missiles (that we eventually have to get rid of). I don't think that's anything to boast about.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Actually, you don't have to. Contra is enough to go on for a looooooong time.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>And I love how you pop up with your "holier than thou" attitude.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I think McCarthy was his biggest idol.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>It's the equivlent of shouting "ABORTION IS MURDER!" in an abortion clinic. You actually expect anybody to not respond to that?</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Not only that but the fact that the soviet union was already in decline and ready to collapse as it was. He can't take credit for something that would have happened no matter who was president. The soviet union would have collapsed regardless of who was president</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Come on. Don't pretend this a church, or that G-Man delivered the news in hushed, impartial terms befitting the general etiquette of a liberal message board like this one. He made a loaded political statement that as much dared people to say something in return.</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Come on. Don't pretend this a church or that G-Man delivered the news in hushed, impartial terms befitting the general etiquette of a liberal message board like this one. He made a loaded political statement that as much dared people to say something in return.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>I doubt any way I announced the death of Reagan would get Sine or Zeus to say anything different. I have no regrets with my post. If you don't agree with it, take it to Ruminations. I don't go there much.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>You're a pot. And you're just as burnt black as a kettle.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>And you're mother was my ex-bitch.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Reagan ushered their collapse much sooner by bluffing them through SDI (aka Star Wars). Regardless what Sine says, Reagan made the US much more powerful as a result of the collapse of the USSR.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Wow...you're actually citing Star Wars as anything but a joke? The USSR was -not- scared of Star Wars.</div>

[Tortolia]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Sure, I'm elitist. I also have some dignity, rather than ripping into an important historical figure less than a day after he passed away. Whatever gets you through the day, you schmuck.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Crikey, you're far more ignorant than I thought. Watch the History Channel, since you can't read.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Yes, I agree, but they weren't forced to take the bait.</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>What is this, "take it to Ruminations?" You sound like a proctor telling us rowdy kids to "take it outside." You posted here, you got replies. Did you expect anything less?</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Of course not, but it begs the question of whether G-Man's initial post was well considered.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>There's a thread there for you to bash Reagan in. Shoo!</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>I had no intention of baiting anyone. I posted what I wanted to say. Similarly, many headline news start their articles close to what I posted. I hope you've emailed them your bashing of Reagan.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Wasn't he the one who funded and trained Al-Qaeda and all those other para-military organizations? or was that Bush? Either way it all came back the country in the ass, if it was him (and not Bush), I would consider him one of the worst presidents.</div>