These "unfavorable" remarks about Reagan are bringing out the freeps...

[kentuck]

:) Keep your powder dry. We are about to be invaded. I mean, to talk bad about Reagan is like talking bad about their mothers...I've seen a couple already. Anybody else seen any?

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Why is it O.K to bash Democrats, even our Hero FDR...

but you can't say one word about them???

:mad:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. who said it was OK...isn't our pride in the fact that we aren't them?

oh...wait...I guess not

[brainshrub]

2. Here's a quote for them:

Reagan was a poopie-head.

Your welcome.

[DenverDem]

3. They come around as soon as they start drinking on Friday.

Alcohol makes them smarter and funnier.

[mhr]

4. Reagan Is Only Topped By GW In Being A Terrible President!

Bring it on Freepers!

[Deja Q]

6. Well good for them.

If they want to be so immature and waste their time, so be it. They'll get alerted and banned in a nanosecond, if not more quickly than that.

[Maeve]

7. They'd come out anyway

Use the alert, folks, folks and help the mods keep the troll population down.

That being said...I agree with Skinner that I'd rather NOT see the dead trashed, but we do believe in freedom of speech...

[Nite Owl]

12. No need to trash the guy.

He was what he was though and he is not a better former President just because he died. He was the worse until the selected one.

[Forkboy]

8. Knowing how pissed our words are making them

is making this day even better than it already was :)

[ronnykmarshall]

9. too bad they don't have the guts ...

to cut and paste the many postings that have been respectfull of Reagan's passing.

Just like their messenger FOX news.

[mitchum]

10. Fuck the freeps. Why don't they throw themselves on his funeral pyre?

He was a stupid and destructive man.

[izzie]

11. Well he has been a sick old man for years but please no more....

re-naming things. And not on Rushmore. Come on, that is for great Presidents.

[ikojo]

13. I am sick and tired of worrying about how my comments on DU

will play in Freeperville. I am not going to change a freeper's mind (assuming a freeper HAS a mind) and they are not going to change mine. I have NEVER supported a pug.

I shed no tears for the passing of an evil man who did much to exacerbate the disparity in wealth in the United States. He virtually destroyed the union movement in the US when he fired the PATCO workers.

http://www.geocities.com/kidhistory/reagan/rp68x79.htm

UNION FOLKS: Remember PATCO

By early summer, Reagan's media imagery had moved from "strong" to "cracking," months earlier than Carter's, and he had to admit at his June 16, 1981 press conference that "we are seeing the first beginning cracks"-ostensibly in the Soviet empire, but really in his own image. Something would have to be done soon to assure the people that he was, indeed, determined and ruthless enough to carry out the internal sacrifice. . . and, if necessary, the external sacrifice as well. This "something" took the form of two carefully-staged actions designed to convince the country that he could carry out sacrifices. These actions were (1) the destruction of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), and (2) the shooting down of two Libyan jets.

The firing of the PATCO workers, termed "an ambush" by one neutral observer,(4) was set up by Reagan's letter of October 20, 1980 to Robert Poli, head of PATCO, promising him, in return for his election support, that he would back PAT-CO's demands and "will take whatever steps necessary . . . to adjust staff levels and work days commensurate with achieving a maximum degree of public safety." In the next six months, Reagan's negotiators encouraged PATCO to believe that they were open to union demands and that a strike could be part of the bargaining process, only then to have Reagan summarily dismiss the 12,000 PATCO members and bankrupt the union because they went out on strike.