Reagan Dies

[12th Doctor]

Let's win one more for the Gipper.

is that any different than saying "let's win this election for Paul Wellstone?" Don't be hypocrites folks.

If they had kept it to just that, then no, but they took it to the extreme.

[So the Heroes Fall]

ha, trying to justify the pot calling the kettle black.

"it's ok to politicize someone's death, just as long as you don't do it TOO MUCH"

[MODU]

Times like these make me quite happy for Democratic Underground.

Explain?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=604956&mesg_id=604956

A quick look at that board makes me think there are a lot of very sick people out there.

As Maggie Thatcher once put it "The veneer of civilization is very thin"

You should read the Zogby boards lately.  The maturity there has fallen to an all-time low, similar with items on that D.U. website.

[MODU]

Rest in Peace, Ronny.  Have missed your face over here during the last 15 years.  May your spirit shine on.

[agcatter]

I ventured over there out of curiosity earlier today.  I'm very sorry I did.

[muon2]

I posted this for M, but I need to add this here as well,

I need to post this here, but I'll probably quote it in many other threads on this site. I dearly hope Brandeis has changed, but as a 2nd year grad student it was the place of one of the darkest days of my life.

It was March 1981 and Reagan had just been shot. Granted that the young Jewish community was not an ally of Reagan. Carter had secured the treaty with Egypt. Reagan stood for many anti-NewDeal thoughts. He seemed a potential warmonger when the Cold War was still reality. But I was not prepared for what I saw.

I had a number of friends in the undergraduate dorms and I was on my way to vist them. To my horror, in room after room, young students were cheering for the death of the President. They were totally unable to separate the policies that were their right to disregard from the very human fact that a life was in grave danger. I cannot come close to conveying the disgust I felt that day.

As a native midwesterner I held a certain innate optimism and sense of the basic goodness of my fellow human being. I still largely feel that way. But on that day I saw the hatred that transcended humanity. I hope that 25 years later the classes that M will meet are far different from the classes I saw in 1981.

[kelpie]

God speed, Mr. President.

[The Vorlon]

[quote author=Better Red Than Dead link=board=5;threadid=4425;start=0#msg116342

I find it amusing that I'm considered a far left wing extremist nutcase here and on DU most consider me a moderate or even conservative.

With very few exceptions, everybody on this forum is quite normal.

There are only a small handful of true extreamists.

That's why I like this board