The blogesphere on Reagan...

Well, at least from the circle I choose to travel in...

From Les

Reagan was only marginally less vile than Bush II in so far as when he was feeding you crap he managed to spread it out thin and got all the lumps out so it went down smooth, even if you ended up gagging on the flavor. Our dear baby Bush serves it up nugget-style straight out of whatever special interest group or contributor he is currently sucking up to. Everything else about their politics is exactly the same.

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"Old Republicans never die, they just leach into the ground water to poison future generations”.

From Mileah

Let's forget for a moment that Reagan was involved in some of the most shady dealings in the history of US presidental abuses then later he didn't seem to recall he was even in the room much less the White House. Let's forget he funded, armed, and manned a guerilla war against a legally elected government. Let's forget about the death squads that roamed El Salvador with US dollars in their pockets. Let's forget he presided over an economy with crushing deficits.
Awww hell, even forgetting all of that I can't get weepy about Reagan's passing.

From Solonor

The more I am reminded of the legacy of Ronald Reagan by the endless tributes, the more I remember that he was the first politician I came to loathe. I'm sorry, but it was the Reagan Administration putting its blind determination to oppose the Soviets ahead of all logic that lead directly to 3,000 people being killed on September 11, 2001. Or are you still that naive to think that arming and training Osama bin Laden was a good idea?

Now, I'll be honest, I'm not up to scratch when it comes to Reaganomics, but from what I have heard, he really wasn't that great...

You reckon bush ii or Nixon are is gonna get the same farewell?