Rove wants Dubya to declare 6-months of mourning for Reagan....

[kentuck]

That way, the media can ignore what is going on in Iraq and around the world. In the interim, we can debate whether he should be on the dollar or the quarter - after all, the Father of our Nation should not be on both. No doubt, this week has been a welcome respite for the Bush regime. The dogs were biting at their heels but now they are all sleeping in front of the television...

[area51]

1. link? (n/t)

[jmags]

3. I think it's kind of obvious the initial poster is only half-serious.

www.sarcasm.com

[kentuck]

5. Here's your "link"...

Maybe I should have put it in LBN? :)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1760330

[chelsea0011]

2. The biggest story this week should have been the Kurds

threatening succession the same day the new President was planted by the US.

[emulatorloo]

11. followed by Ashcroft in Contempt of Congress

n/t

[SarahB]

4. It would be a good excuse to get out of debates in the Fall.

"'Mericans are still too sad over Reagan. Wouldn't be right to have debates now."
He's going to find a way to back out of them. I don't see how all the corporate media spin in the world will save him in the debates.
If not, just more distraction news anyway.

[MichaelHarris]

6. I'm just sad

I don't have any gubment cheese left over from the reagan years. I'd carve a reagan cheese statue and open a pay website just for people to see it. You gotta love free enterprise.

[OneTwentyoNine]

7. Debates,build a box for Chimp to stand on or cut a hole in the floor...

Where Kerry stands?? Which will it be as KKKarl can't have junior looking like the wimp that he is on National TV.

Watch,suddenly Bush will be just as tall as John Kerry overnight....

David

[Divernan]

8. He calls them "Murcans" - not Mericans.

Oh, for a president who can ennunciate, who can think, who can speak complete sentences, who can ride a bicycle , who can chew and swallow his food, who is not afraid to attend his kids' college graduations, and whose wife leads an exemplary life of involvement in critical issues and makes the world a better place through her actions. And not to highjack this thread, but don't you think Teresa Heinz Kerry will be a first lady the equivalent of Eleanor Roosevelt?

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

9. All government offices (and voting booths) closed till November 3rd

.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

10. OK, why are there so many people who do not understand Rove?

Why the hell is this man not transparent? With all of the available DOCUMENTED material on the man, who he is, WHAT he is, his "greatest hits," the fact that he is apparently devoid of morals and / or scruples and will gleefully destroy anything that gets in his way without remorse, WHY...why, why, why, are people buying ANY of the "shining city on the hill" CRAP that is coming out of the Bush administration?

WHY don't people understand that when Bush's mistress talks about Reagan's "vision to dream of a better, safer world, and the courage, persistence and patience to turn that dream into reality" she's simply regurgitating her boyfriend's talking points for his own agenda? It's NOT about Reagan, it's about "four more years"...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040607-8.html
"Press Briefing by National Security Advisor, Dr. Condoleezza Rice on the G8 Summit"

"DR. RICE: Let me welcome you here to this very important summit. I'd like to start by just saying a word, of course, about the great sadness that the country feels at the death of former President Ronald Reagan, a true giant in international politics, and of course, someone who was very much associated with this summit. He hosted it in Williamsburg in 1983, and I think was one of the people who really gave the G8 a kind of -- at that time, the G7 -- a kind of profile. And so we all are deeply saddened by his death, and look forward this week to the opportunity to remember him, as a country and as a world.

As President Reagan said in 1985, the challenge of statesmanship is to have a vision to dream of a better, safer world, and the courage, persistence and patience to turn that dream into reality. And this week, the G8 statesmen will stand united in their resolve to build a better, united, and safer world."