There Should Be a Way We Can Honor Reagan

like how he put this country into more debt than all preceding President's put together. He should be remembered honestly and not through the lense of right wing political propaganda which the media is once again propagandizing.

although I get the gist of your sentiment. On this occasion - another excuse for his attempted canonization by the right wing - we need to promulgate the truth more than ever. Those who scold us for daring to point out the obvious disparity between the mythology built up around the man and the reality of his legacy can go pound sand. Getting out the truth about St. Ronnie is more important than anyone's precious sense of moral superiority because they abstain from criticising Reagan on a day the RW will likely attempt to make a national holiday.

I hear here that the conservatives should have hated him because of his liberal policies, then I hear later we should hate him for being too conservative.

The guy is either hated or loved and when you tell someone which way you feel they will try to find you reasons why you shouldn't.

I guess both sides do it, huh? Do you think the man is being fairly criticized or not. Don't understand your point really...

none would be due.

Went looking for the lyrics to End of the Innocence, found this instead. I contend the bridge between second and third verse explains a lot. It's the original from 1995 with Kirk Douglas and rumored not to be lasting long, catch if you can and are so inclined!
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpnlnoaUSpE>

We need to honor us, the people we elect have consistently demonstrated they honor only their own glorification.

Months back, I found cause to snoop into easily learned history of the current patriarch of the BFEE, Papa Bush. Two notables for me, both early, and not pertaining to his misdeeds as DCI. First, his academic background, and the fact that his degree is in economics. Nixon would appoint him to the same position that waxed noodle of a doodle, John Bolton claims to now hold with a sense of permanence, Ambassador to the United Nations. Ford would later ask him to act as liaison chief in the overtures to China Nixon began until bringing him back to Washington, where he could be under Carter's feet from his old desk at the CIA while also mopping up after Watergate.

I have serious doubts as to who was actually in charge during the dawn of dismantlement known as the Reagan years. This president certainly believed in separation of the classes, but I believe the know how to set in motion the peril we face today as a public was in the dark heart and foul mind of his Veep. Surpassed only by his own as to who history will count as best at presiding over vice.

but it's a function of how old he was when he got into office, and how long he stayed. Reagan only left the White House a smidgen over 22 years ago, and there are many people still alive and kicking who were part of his administration.

Contrast that with the upcoming centennial year of John F. Kennedy's birth in 2017. Kennedy would have been out of office (due to a premature death) for nearly 55 years by that point, and there will be essentially no one left who served during that time, only a few journalists who covered the assassination, who were not much more than cub reporters at the time, but were thrust into history.

Even the last half of the baby boomers will not have any living memories of the time when JFK gave us Camelot, we will have only the recollections of their surviving parents to give the same tribute to a truly great President.