1 man can't be liked by everyone...

But this thread was to mourn the man who we all have respect for. If you want to bash on him, start another one if you wish.

RIP Reagan.

 

 

I doubt everyone has respect for him ...

If you don't want to read opinions you don't agree with, don't write or read in a public forum ... or at least don't make yourself look like a third grader with pointless insults.

 

Steve C please show some respect as this thread was written to honor a good American - Have some class!

 

steve c aint completely wrong..

raegan was a hard core conservative... most would even agree that reagan was a complete racist... during his presidency.. he practically ignore all polical input from African Americans and openly expressed his discontent for the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s...

in fact, he did as much as he could within his power to nullify the leaps and bounds of progress in racial equality accomplished by the civil rights movement...

some examples:

"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1965

"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
--Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1966

"If there has to be a bloodbath then let's get it over with."
--Ronald Reagan (Governor of California), quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 1969. (Reagan reveals how he intends to deal with student protesters at the University of California, Berkeley.)

-Reagan never supported the use of federal power to provide blacks with civil rights. He opposed the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 (which made it easier for southern blacks to vote). Reagan said in 1980 that the Voting Rights Act had been

 

He also signed a bill granting Mr. Luther King Holiday.

In the end, there will ALWAYS be controversy with ANY president. Get over it. There will never be a president that will make everyone happy. That's just not possible.

He still had enough courage to fight for the freedom of many people.

If you look through the presidents we had, you should see that he has done a great deal for this country, surpassing many others.

The guy was shot at, obviously people didn't like him then and obviously some still don't today. Why hold a grudge against a guy who has ended his leadership of the country many years ago, has spent the last 10 years of his life suffering with a serious illness, and now has left the world that is still full of much hatred and chaos. Nothing will ever be perfect.

This thread was specifically put here to mourn, if that isn't obvious enough. Notice the sad face and not a happy face in the title.

And commenting about how I'm a third grader by stating what the main purpose of this thread should be about? I find your actions a bit more childish to begin tossing negative comments about this man. You wouldn't go running into a funeral preaching the terrible things that person did... would you?

 

Reagan was a pretty upstanding guy with great ideas and integrity up until about the time that he was sworn in. Once he became President he was turned in to another one of the puppets that the Power Elite use to run this world.

Here's a little history lesson that you won't find in the history books approved to be used in public schools:

"During the 1980 presidential campaigns, Republican candidate Ronald Reagan went on the record blasting the nineteen Trilateral Commission members in the Carter administration -- including Carter himself, who wrote that his association with the commission was "a splendid learning opportunity" -- and vowed to investigate the group if elected. While competing with Bush Sr., Reagan lambasted Bush's membership in both the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations and pledged not to allow Bush a position in a Reagan government.

Yet during the Republican national convention a strange series of events took place.

While Reagan was a shoe-in as the presidential candidate, the vice presidency was the object of a contentious fight. In midweek, national news commentators "suddenly" began talking about a "dream ticket" that could be made up of Reagan and Vice President(and former President) Gerald Ford. Pressure began building for this concept, which would have created some what of a "shared presidency", and in turn would have divided power. It was even suggested that since Ford had been president he should choose half of the Reagan cabinet.

Faced with the prospect of presiding over half a government, Reagan rushed to the convention floor late at night and announced, "I know that I am breaking with precedent to come here tonight, and I assure you at this late hour I'm not going to give you my acceptance address tonight....But in watching the television at the hotel and seeing the rumors that were going around and the gossip that was taking place here....let me as simply as I can straighten out and bring this to a conclusion. It is true that a number of Republican leaders...felt that a proper ticket would have included the former president of the United States, Gerald Ford, as second place on the ticket...I then believed that because of all the talk and how something might be growing through the night that it was time for me to advance the schedule a little bit.....I have asked and I am recommending to this convention that tomorrow when the session reconvenes that George Bush be nominated for vice president."

Reagan never again uttered a word agains the Trilateral Commission of the CFR. Following his election, Reagan's fifty-nine member transition team was composed of twenty-eight CFR members, ten members of the elite Bilderberger group, and at least ten Trilateralist members. He even went on to appoint prominent CFR members to three of the nation's most sensitive offices: Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger, and Secretary of the Treasury Donald Regan. On top of all that, as if that wasn't enough, he named Bush's campaign manager, James A. Baker III, who at the time was serving as chairman of the Reagan-Bush campaign committee, as his chief of staff.

Baker just happens to be a fourth-generation member of a family long connected to Rockefeller oil interests.

Then little more than two months after taking office, President Reagan was struck by an assassin's bullet which, but for a quarter of an inch, would have propelled Bush into the Oval Office seven years before his time. Oddly enough, the brother of the would-be assassin, John W. Hinckley, had scheduled dinner with Bush's son Neil the very night Reagan was shot. Hinckley's Texas oilman father and Bush Sr. were longtime friends. You might also be interested in knowing that Bush's name, including his then little-publicized nickname "Poppy", along with his address and phone number were found in the personal notebook of oil geologist George DeMohrenschildt, the last known close friend of Lee Harvey Oswald."

- Jim Marrs author of rule by SECRECY

 

steve c. i give u the middle finger award.

regardless of what the man did during his presidency. that is over with. i made the thread as a mourning for america. wether you agree or not. have some respect for a passing man.

if you think you can do better. then get ur butt n run for prez and see if u can do anything better than any of the former prez. don't bash on this thread plz. if u must crave you thirst for hatred of the man. start your own thread.

 

Wow, I just heard right now since we just got to our Hotel (Sac2Kdays meet). It is sad to hear though. He will be missed.