RIP Ronald Reagan

[Beestie]

Originally posted by Radar

He is rotting and burning in hell right now, and he richly deserves to be there.

Unbelievable yet believable.

Originally posted by Beestie
Originally posted by Radar Unbelievable yet believable.

Hey, when you consider it's Radar, it all makes sense in a demented sort of way.

[Pie]

Originally posted by Radha
Even in politics, there should be a place for human emotions, and a modicum of respect for the (newly-)dead.

Originally posted by Radar
He is rotting and burning in hell right now, and he richly deserves to be there.

Those human emotions I was talking about, Radar? I think you just proved you don't have 'em.

Keep working on it. Perhaps someday you can join the human race.

- Pie

[Radar]

My emotions are just fine Pie, and I'm as much a member of the human race as Ghandi, Martin Luther King Junior, and Mother Theresa were.

[glatt]

Radar makes perfect sense. If you operate under the premise that Reagan was a bad man, than it's perfectly natural to say that the bad man is in Hell now that he is dead.

You may disagree with Radar that Reagan was bad, but his sentiments are perfectly rational, given his assumtions.


I won't point out the irony of Radar talking about Hell when he argued against the existence of God in the religion thread. Oh, wait. I just pointed it out. Damnit!

[Lady Sidhe]

Originally posted by OnyxCougar


It's doesn't really require a response... I'm on his ignore list anyway, since I'm a blithering idiot.


I was just pointing out his hypocrisy.

Carry on.

Yeah, I'm on his ignore list too; however, I got so tired of reading his diatribes, which usually had absolutely NOTHING to do with the subject, that I returned his favor. With the amount of variation that he shows, he might as well just cut and paste from a prepared rant on notepad or something.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Oh, not so. Radar's diatribes are always to the point. You're thinking of TW.

[warch]

I'm just amazed at how moderate Reagan looks today. Geez.

My favorite Reagan bit is the old SNL sketch were he's dottering, chuckling, getting a photo op with girl scouts in the oval office, calling Nancy "mommy" or such... then when they leave and the doors shut, he turns into articulate brain, mastermind, taking charge ordering everyone around.

RIP, alzheimers is good to escape.

[Radar]

I won't point out the irony of Radar talking about Hell when he argued against the existence of God in the religion thread. Oh, wait. I just pointed it out. Damnit!

While I don't believe in an afterlife, I do believe in hell. I've seen it right here on earth in every country that has had to suffer through communism, fascism, etc. And I was speaking figuratively about hell.

I tend to lean toward Buddhism and certain sects of buddhist believe EVERYONE goes to hell until they work off all the bad things they've done. If this is true, Reagan will be in hell for a bit less than Hitler and more than Clinton. Bush will be there for about the same length of time as Hitler.

[Lady Sidhe]

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[Lady Sidhe]

Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Oh, not so. Radar's diatribes are always to the point. You're thinking of TW.

What I meant is, no matter what the subject, radical radar will find a way to link it to libertarianism....

[smoothmoniker]

Originally posted by Undertoad
... he was such a great communicator that he was actually able to campaign on the basis of a philosophy.

That, I think, speaks volumes. He didn't run agains someone so much as he rain toward something, and articualted it with such clarity that people joined him.

I disagreed with much of what he stood for, but I think the first Clinton run shared that same characteristic.

-sm

[glatt]

THANK YOU, RONNIE!!!

THREE DAY WEEKEND!

Just got the memo today.

[OnyxCougar]

My co workers are insisting that Ronnie isn't dead, he's hanging out with Tupac and Elvis in the Bahamas, sipping down MaiTais served up by President Kennedy while Jimmy Hoffa sweeps the floor.

[xoxoxoBruce]

‘One for the Gipper’
"Someday when things are tough, maybe you can ask the boys to go in there and win just one for the Gipper." —Portraying football player George Gipp in the film “Knute Rockne, All American,” 1940
'Shining city on a hill'
Let us resolve tonight that young Americans will always ... find there a city of hope in a country that is free.... And let us resolve they will say of our day and our generation, we did keep the faith with our God, that we did act worthy of ourselves, that we did protect and pass on lovingly that shining city on a hill." — Election Eve speech, Nov. 3, 1980
‘We have piled deficit upon deficit’
"For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals.
You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?" —Inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1981
‘Tear down this wall’
“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.” —Speech at the Berlin Wall, June 12, 1987
‘Grown beyond the consent of the governed’
"We are a nation that has a government — not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed." —Inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1981

‘A special interest group that has been too long neglected’
"We hear much of special interest groups. Our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected.
"It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and our factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we are sick—professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers.
"They are, in short, 'We the people,' this breed called Americans." —Inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1981
‘I forgot to duck’
"Honey, I forgot to duck." — 1981, Reagan to his wife, as he recovered gunshot wounds after an assassination attempt by John Hinckley on March 30, 1981
‘A time of reckoning’
"An almost unbroken 50 years of deficit spending has finally brought us to a time of reckoning. We have come to a turning point, a moment for hard decisions. I have asked the Cabinet and my staff a question, and now I put the same question to all of you: If not us, who? And if not now, when? It must be done by all of us going forward with a program aimed at reaching a balanced budget. We can then begin reducing the national debt." —Second inaugural address, Jan. 21, 1985
‘Render nuclear weapons obsolete’
"For decades, we and the Soviets have lived under the threat of mutual assured destruction; if either resorted to the use of nuclear weapons, the other could retaliate and destroy the one who had started it. Is there either logic or morality in believing that if one side threatens to kill tens of millions of our people, our only recourse is to threaten killing tens of millions of theirs?
"I have approved a research program to find, if we can, a security shield that would destroy nuclear missiles before they reach their target. It wouldn't kill people, it would destroy weapons. It wouldn't militarize space, it would help demilitarize the arsenals of Earth. It would render nuclear weapons obsolete." —Second inaugural address, Jan. 21, 1985
‘Whatever else history may say’
“Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears....
“May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek divine guidance and never lose your natural, God-given optimism.” —Speech to Republican National Convention, Aug. 17, 1992
‘Go ahead, make my day’
"I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day." —March 13, 1985, in a speech threatening to veto legislation raising taxes.
‘You don't become president of the United States’
"When people tell me I became president on January 20, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become president of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the presidency, which belongs to our people." — Address to the Republican national convention. Aug. 15, 1988