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[den]

why do people wait for a bloke to die before they list all the bad things he did? Would you have said these things before he died? If so, why didn't you?

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[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I lost two grand parents to Alzheimers, so I know what it can do. When Reagan announced he had it I thought "poor bastard" at the time.

I disagree with his policies, but listing them now that he is dead seems pointless.

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

I think the point is to balance out all the nominations for sainthood.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

there is that.

[red-frog.livejournal.com]

Yep: it's reaction to the laudatory statements from so many places, public and personal. I'm not bashing him or lauding him, but I understand the impulse to say something even if I'm not doing it.

I didn't like Reagan when he was president and specifically voted against him. I was openly and vocally opposed to most things he did and did not do. However, there hasn't been any point to saying anything recently: the man hasn't been in power for coming on 20 years.

As a person, I feel sorry for him--more so for his wife, frankly, even though I was never a fan of Nancy, either. As a president, his attitudes and the policies they contributed to angered me.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

In retrospect, it's painfully obvious that the Alzheimer's was already starting to develop while he was in office. If he'd had any integrity, he'd have done a Charlton Heston. So yes, I think it's appropriate to point out that his policies ultimately caused a lot of harm. We (Americans) are still paying for the whole "deregulation" fiasco; look at the Enron thing, which happened quite recently but is in fact directly traceable to Reaganism.