RIP Ronald Reagan

[jaguar]

not your idiot younger brother that you hide in the closet when company comes over (Clinton).

Don't really want to turn this political but there are many things could call Clinton but I would not have listed stupid among them, the guy's a Rhodes Scolar for crying out loud.

"First Citizen :

This Caesar was a tyrant.

Third Citizen :

Nay, that's certain:
We are blest that Rome is rid of him.

Second Citizen:

Peace! let us hear what Antony can say.

ANTONY:

You gentle Romans,--

Citizens:

Peace, ho! let us hear him.

ANTONY:

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man."

- Shakespeare, Julius Ceasar

[Lady Sidhe]

Originally posted by jaguar
Don't really want to turn this political but there are many things could call Clinton but I would not have listed stupid among them, the guy's a Rhodes Scolar for crying out loud.

Being a Rhodes Scholar apparantly didn't imbue him with any sense or dignity, though, did it? That man was an embarassment...IMHO. He had a history of abusing the power of both the governor's office and the office of the President; he had absolutely no convictions; he was a wuss.

Anyone who isn't willing to fight to protect his country should not be able to send other people's children to die. This man left the country and protested against it. He also said that (paraphrase) if a president showed poor moral character in office that he should be impeached. Ironic, ain't it?


But this is a memorial thread to a Real president. We can create a Bash Clinton thread later....


Sidhe

[xoxoxoBruce]

That man was an embarassment.

Not to me.

Anyone who isn't willing to fight to protect his country...

From the Viet Nam?

This man left the country

To be a Rhodes Scholar, that's how it's done.

and protested against it.

Along with millions of others.

[Yelof]

How I always will remember him

The President's brain is missing



Thanks for helping me make me think I'd never live out my teen years

Still Alzheimer's is a horrible way to go, my mother has it and is gone to the world these last 4-5 years, she can't now stand up, talk, swallow properly, she reckonizes nobody and the saddest thing is her father went the same way and I know from a conversation I had with her she would not have wanted to continue living under these circumstances but there is not a thing I can do for her..

Also to relate her to Regan I think, looking back with hindsight, I can see a small creep of change in her behaviour in the years before we were given a diagnosis. I just thought she was depressed. So I wouldn't be surprised if Regan was affected years before any diagnosis

[Lady Sidhe]

Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Along with millions of others.

Yes, but they aren't the ones sending other people's children to die for a country they didn't give a shit about.

I don't like him. Never will. We can agree to disagree. I'm not trying to change anyone's opinion, just stating my own.

[Happy Monkey]

No, the ones who are sending soldiers off to die are the ones who supported the Viet Nam War, but refused to fight in it.

[elSicomoro]

Originally posted by Lady Sidhe
But this is a memorial thread to a Real president.

As opposed to a fake one?

[Lady Sidhe]

Originally posted by Happy Monkey
No, the ones who are sending soldiers off to die are the ones who supported the Viet Nam War, but refused to fight in it.

You're preaching to the choir on that. I think that if you're going to start the damned war, you should be on the front friggin' lines. I'll bet if the politicians had to fight, there would be a lot FEWER wars.


Sidhe

I am really sorry, but this is how I will forever remember the man, and he did this not me:

[wolf]

From all reports he was a good man, is regarded as a great president, and that was a funny movie.

[Crimson Ghost]

Love him or hate him, the two things I remember from his years in office:

Challenger Explosion: -

"They have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and touched the face of God."

Even typing it, I get kinda choked up.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have just outlawed Communism. The bombing shall commence in 5 minutes."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! OUT-FUCKING-STANDING!!!!!!

The Premier of Russia shit himself when Ronnie Ray-gun said that.

[DanaC]

The Presidents brain is missing was one of the best of the Spitting Image sketches

[Yelof]

The Presidents brain is missing was one of the best of the Spitting Image sketches

I can't find on-line a summary of what happened in the plot-line, but I can remember totally absurd things happening like the brain mating with a hedgehog etc..

I hear Spitting Image might be making a come back, I hope so, and I hope they do it before Bush is voted out, he would make lovely latex subject matter.

[Catwoman]

Originally posted by Lady Sidhe
I think that if you're going to start the damned war, you should be on the front friggin' lines. I'll bet if the politicians had to fight, there would be a lot FEWER wars.
Sidhe

Hear hear.