Reagan Death Resurrects Controversies, Bitterness

[Solidarity]

For critics, death resurrects controversies, bitterness
By Laura Kurtzman, Dana Hull and Mary Anne Ostrom

Mercury News
Friday, June 11, 2004

Reagan has been the bane of liberals from the start. He began his career in elective office with a campaign for California governor in which he promised to ``clean up the mess at Berkeley,'' a reference to the burgeoning Free Speech Movement and anti-Vietnam War protests on campus.

Berkeley turbulence

``He didn't start out as governor with a friendly or compromising attitude at all,'' said Ray Colvig, 73, the campus's chief public-affairs officer in the 1960s. ``He was very tough in his rhetoric. He proceeded to try to cut the university's budget any way he could, and at one point suggested we should sell off the rare books in the library.''


Reagan used the demonstrators as a foil for his conservatism. ``He had me expelled from Berkeley,'' said Peter Miguel Camejo, the Green Party candidate for president who was active in the Free Speech Movement. Camejo said he sympathized with Nancy Reagan for the pain she suffered through her husband's Alzheimer's disease. ``But I have a different view of Ronald Reagan politically. He was totally for the Vietnam War.''

As governor, Reagan also battled regularly with the United Farm Workers, which began organizing immigrant farmworkers throughout the San Joaquin Valley in 1965.

``Reagan was very much opposed to collective bargaining,'' said Dolores Huerta, 74, who co-founded the UFW with Cesar Chavez. She said Reagan never met with the farmworkers face to face and once told an interviewer that the union's five-year boycott on grapes was immoral.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/8897152.htm

[DenverDem]

1. So actually, it could work to sane peoples advantage

that the old criminal died when he did.

We get to remember and remind the world that this cynical old bastard started the sewage down the hill that we are swimming in now.

[seventhson]

2. very well put

altrho I would arghue it goes back to prescott Bush, nixon et all back many decades.

Reagan was just one of the fascist jesters for the nasty wasp elites.

[seventhson]

3. DU Error?

can't fix -sorry

[seventhson]

4. error

[seventhson]

5. very well put

altho I would argue it goes back to prescott Bush, nixon et all back many decades.

Reagan was just one of the fascist shit-carrying sludge jesters for the nasty wasp elites.

[DenverDem]

6. You are right, raygun just put the theocon endgame into play.

Merely a power elite functionary. He was the great legitimizer of atrocity because he was so "likeable". The ultimate front man for the NWO RICO scam.

[Snellius]

7. I remember a photo of Reagan giving the finger to demonstrators

who had gathered out the window of Regent's Hall in Berkeley. He was mean as hell.

As governor of California when confronted by a hippie, "He had hair
like Tarzan, acted like Jane and smelled like Cheetah." His comment on the hackneyed slogan "make love not war" was "they don't look like they are capable of doing either." LOL!

[meee]

8. Don't you wish

Hey, I just got back from out of town and finally got to a computer (ha! I make it sound like I was doing something useful with my life... I went camping or AKA: sitting around a campfire barefoot for a week smoking pot and listening to Phish, MOE, and the String Cheese Incident). Anywhoo, I heard Reagan crooked. Now far be it for me to praise a fascist Republican, but I thought I'd compare these two quotes:

"As I told the Tower Board, I didn't know about any diversion of funds to the Contras. But as president, I cannot escape responsibility." -President Reagan

"It depends upon what the meaning of the word is means. If is means is, and never has been, that's one thing. If it means, there is none, that was a completely true statement." -President Clinton

Hmm, one takes personal responsibility to those who work under him. The other instead cannot take responsibility for his own actions and instead rambles over the definition of a very basic word. Anyone else wish we could find more people who say things like the first quote in our party?

[thebigidea]

10. Yeah, I wish we could find more people who would arm Iran secretly

that's TONS better than a blowjob.

Here's another quote from your Saint: "I don't recall."

Was that supposed to be some dumb hippie parody?

[Jade Fox]

11. And yet Reagan DID completely escape responsibility. When it came down...

to it, he let Oliver North be the fall guy.

It takes more than being a so-called Great Communicator to be a good President.

[DenverDem]

12. Nice attempt at a cover story.

Not fooling anyone.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. CRAP, glancing at that thread title gave me a BIG SCARE!

Never put the words "Reagan" and "Resurrects" that close to each other! Damn!!! :scared: