It's mourning in America.

[Cascadian]

While I can appreciate the fact some of you are showing some restraint in your criticism of the now-late former president Reagan but cannot agree whith heaping praise over a man who was until recently the worst president this country had.

A man who was instrumental in hurting mental patients by closing their facilities. A man who fired air traffic controllers. A man who helped Saddam Hussein by giving him weapons of mass destruction. A man who widened the gap of the rich and the poor. A man who was instrumental in bringing the religious right into the political fold.A man who ignored the AIDS crisis. A man who actually negotiated with terrorists and stirred up civil wars in Central America.

No I will not join the mourning throngs. He was a man who deserves no worthy acknowledgement of respect.

[Don_G]

1. More Than Mental Patients

Would you have let them loose on the streets to prey on the population at large?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. Well said.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. A man who was elected twice to the office of President...

Even when they knew what he was. He didn't do what he did in a vacuum.

[leyton]

4. Respect and heaping praise are not the same thing.

Respect should be accorded to all people, regardless of their political party, regardless of how they did their job. Who here is praising him?

He made mistakes, we all have in our respective lives.

[Endangered Specie]

9. Agree 100%

Id never praise the man for an instant, he was a lousy president... but he still was a president, and a human, who had a family.

[Bluebear]

5. I feel truly sorry for those that loved him.

That is really my only concern. The news media already is touting his conversion of liberals as part of his legacy etc. I won't be join into that!

[Malva Zebrina]

8. even Hitler had persons who loved him

nt

[shraby]

6. You are absolutely right.

Unfortunately he will be honored. That's the way it is...then on with life.

[swag]

7. Reagan: What an Asshole n/t

[Cascadian]

10. kick

[Deja Q]

11. Well said!

Some are now bashing those who are speaking negatively of Reagan. Forget them.

As I've said before, the only way I can have emotion over Reagan is if he was a humane man. He wasn't. He's inhuman, especially because his politics were a part of him. From the 1964 civil rights quote he made to AIDS to everything else, the guy is scum. And I will shout it from a mountaintop. Good riddance to him, but the damage he made becomes increasingly difficult to reverse with each passing day.