[Troubleshooter]

Originally posted by Beestie
Originally posted by vsp No, it really didn't. You let it be known that you do not wish to participate in mourning Reagan - you let everyone know where you stand without expressing a detailed opinion.

What Radar did that many of us find incredibly rude and undeniably self-important was to (attempt to) invalidate the respect we were paying. It is an individual's decision to pay or not pay respect. It is beyond uncalled for and entirely unacceptable to directly challence someone's choice in that matter during the "mourning - pay respect" period.

You and Radar are free to despise Reagan. I might be interested in having that debate sometime. But now is clearly not the time. And I establish a clear separation between you and Radar in as much as you have the good sense to know that being disrespecful to the dead is really about being disrespectful to those who respect the dead. A subtley completely lost on the self-appointed would-be ruler of the universe.

Well said and true.