My one and only anti-reagan rant....

[liberalitch]

Okay... so i know that we are supposed to be showing the appropriate amount of respect and all of that.
And i will, but DAMN IT.... Reagan is just as dead today (monday) as he was saturday.....
yesterday (June 6) was SUPPOSED to belong to someone else!
It was SUPPOSED to belong those men who crawled over those beaches and scaled those walls in france. INSTEAD we all got Ronald Reagan.....
Our greatest generation die at a rate of over 1000 a day... many of them will not get a 61st anniversary.
What do we get a 60th Anniversary "do over"?
just another way in which the right is mean and selfish!

[SheilaT]

1. At the risk

of sounding very mean-spirited myself, I really thought that the 50th anniversary of D-Day would be the last big celebration of it. At what point do we stop trotting out the frail and tottering old men?

Not that we should forget about it totally, but wouldn't a quieter, more dignified remembrance have been more appropriate in the first place? The ONLY reason Bush got geared up for this particular anniversary is that it's occurring in an election year, and so it seemed like a good idea at the time.

If they'd had a crystal ball to tell them that St. Ronnie would have the good timing to die on June 5th, they'd have planned for just such a quiet celebration, knowing that a week of funeral services could be used even better to showcase their political party. Instead, we have this circus of a funeral competing with an over-blown commemoration.

But that's just my opinion.