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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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[tygermoonfoxx.livejournal.com]

I don't understand it either. He was like any other human being --- he had some things he was good at and other things at which he wasn't. Reagan WAS a good people's president; the got down to their level and communicated with them all --- rich, poor, all economic classes. I still remember the time he stopped in the town in which I grew up. His press people wanted him to stay in Denver but he insisted on coming over to the western slope as well and in stopping in the small farming towns to see how people were doing and what could be done to help.

Conversely he trusted people to do a job and do it right when told to do so. He vested too much power in his staff and didn't check back on them. It had some bad results.

People don't seem to understand that a president is only human after all.

And I don't hold with ripping on the dead. It's stupid and pointless and half of what's being said isn't even true.