She pisses me off every time I see her and today was no

[QMPMom]

damn different. I just can't stand Nancy Reagan. The woman makes me ill when I think of her.

When I saw her sitting in the National Cathedral in her designer sunglasses - that she never took off - I just wanted to reach out and rip them off her face.

The woman just irritates the shit out of me!

[AlCzervik]

1. See thats how i feel when i see or hear Barb "Battle axe" Bush, Nancy Reagan

doesn't bother me at all.

[illinoisprogressive]

2. She use to do that to me

but, i didn't feel like that today. I think because W and his gang are so much worse. I guess I am directing all my dislike to those war criminals.

[karlrschneider]

3. Just say "no"...

...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. She used to irritate me a lot.

But now she's just a little, skinny, very old lady -- who, by the way, has been pushing for stem cell research. She doesn't bug me so much any more.

[LittleClarkie]

9. Even less when I could relate to her when she lost Ron

I'd just lost my dad, and when they had to pry her off Ron's casket, I was blubbering.

[rebel with a cause]

12. I haven't been able to hate her ever since I heard her

protest w using Ronald in his quest for world domination (my words not hers). I don't remember exactly what she said but it was after both of her children spoke out against bush in general and his using their father to win points. The media was making a deal of what Patti had said, and Nancy came out and made a statement of her own, and it all quickly died away. At least that is the way I remember it.

It dawned on me also, that Nancy had to have done something right since neither of her children are right wingers. The older son is a conservative, but he is not hers, but an adopted son of Reagan and his first wife.

[madokie]

5. but you feel much better now don't you

sometimes one has to get it off one's chest

[QMPMom]

8. I suppose so - but I still can't stand her! LOL!

[madokie]

10. I hear ya',

I feel the same way

[babylonsister]

6. She could have macular degeneration which could require sun glasses.

She doesn't bother me.

[boomboom]

7. that's the way my mom felt about her too.

She's been gone for almost 10 years, but it always makes my sister and me laugh the way Mom talked about Nancy.

[peacetalksforall]

11. Funny, she ticked me off with her arrogance when she was in

forthe WH, but I don't flinch anymore.

But, every time I hear 'The War on Drugs' I think of her and I sneer at her arrogant advice once again. Her delivery was awful. Her reality didn't exist except to third, fourth, and fifth graders and some others. I guess she has made it all up with her sense on stem cell research. I'll give it up.

[QMPMom]

15. "I guess she has made it all up with her sense on stem cell research."

Somehow I think she'd be against stem cell research if Alzheimer's hadn't taken Reagan.

[peacetalksforall]

33. Could be. Easy to say yes to your guess. Hmmmmpt. Yes,

quite possible.

[TomInTib]

13. She is one of the few that I actually hate.

And I mean hate with a homicidal passion.

That feeling has not subsided one bit over all of these years.

[QMPMom]

14. I agree with you. And I don't feel any kinder about "Ronnie".

I stood in the Democrat HQ in my hometown the night he was elected and bawled like a baby.

[TomInTib]

16. Check your Inbox in a little while

For a little Nancy story

[QMPMom]

25. Thanks for the story, Tom. Check your inbox.

[ronnykmarshall]

17. She has cataracts

Maybe that's why she was wearing the sunglasses.

[Moochy]

26. Hate someone? Just add Disability

Disabilities make people lovable!

[Raine]

36. No, a disability doesn't

make someone loveable but it could explain the reason for the sunglasses which was the original poster's complaint.

[Contrary1]

32. I was just going to mention that...

I have cataracts, glaucoma, dry eye, and those damn "floaters".
Wind and sun can irritate certain eye conditions. I have sunglasses
handy all the time.

I suspect that this is what is going on with Mrs. Reagan.

The other reason is that she might have been a bit teary eyed
thinking about Ronnie, and didn't want it to be noticed.

[lonestarnot]

That old bag, shit in a brown paper bag, makes me want to puke also.

:puke:

[seabeyond]

18. i have no energy to be so pissed at someone so insignificant as nancy reagan

i really dont care about the woman one way or another. she doesnt matter, at all.

[partylessinOhio]

19. Believe me I never liked Nancy Reagan but -

she was the only First Lady sitting there without her husband. The only one who talked to her was Rosalyn Carter. I thought that was cold of the others especially the Bushes and that Cheney woman.

Andrea Mitchell said that she was surprised that Nancy came because she has not been well and doesn't travel much anymore. I hope someone thanks her for coming.

Another affront was that Poppy ignored Brian Mulroney when he tried to get his attention before taking his seat.

from CTV:

Mulroney to attend state funeral service for Ford

Updated Sat. Dec. 30 2006 11:50 PM ET

Canadian Press

OTTAWA -- Former Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney will represent Canada at next week's funeral for former U.S. president Gerald Ford.

The prime minister's office says Mulroney will attend the state funeral service for Ford, which will be held on Tuesday at the Washington National Cathedral. Mulroney will be joined at the service by Michael Wilson, who once served as Mulroney's finance minister but who is now Canada's ambassador to the United States.

[GenDem]

20. Babs does that to me --

I absolutely despise her. She is such a despicable, snobby, bitch!

I didn't like Nancy much during the ray-gun years, but her views on stem cell research, the burden of caring for an alzheimer patient, and admiring her two kids -- have neutralized my earlier opinions of her.

[QMPMom]

21. But would she still have those views on stem cell research

if Reagan hadn't developed Alzheimer's? I highly doubt it.

[walldude]

24. Exactly... It affected her so she stood up for it

it's not like she really gives a crap about anyone but herself...

[GenDem]

28. Probably not --

A debilitating disease like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, MS can bring out the activist in just about anyone with a front row seat.

I never suspected that she was a fundie, bible thumping, pro-lifer kind -even while she was first lady. Didn't she have a psychic or an astrology person visiting her in the White House? In fact at that time I thought she was a bit of a hypocrite.

I always thought of her as being very self-centered.....I just don't feel that anymore. However, my negative feelings toward Barbara Bush will most likely stay with me. I can't stand to even look at her!

[rebel with a cause]

30. I doubt that Nancy would ever make the

beautiful mind statement that miss babs made. And no, Nancy was not my favorite person, but later when I remembered some of the cabinet hating her in Ronald's last years as president for controlling him, I wonder what would have happened if she had not been there. I also wondered if he was already losing it and was being controlled by.........gee, I wonder who could have been doing that?

[and-justice-for-all]

22. Nancy Reagan had money before her husband was prez...

...lots of people where sunglasses at funerals.

[newsguyatl]

23. couldn't agree more!

[tinfoilinfor2005]

27. She doesn't irritate me.

I am very fond of her son and she raised him very well.

[mitchtv]

29. I used to hate her,

She went a long way in redemption when she applied the Coup de grace to Ollie North's senate candidacy.

[stanwyck]

31. She's still my least favorite First Lady, but

I no longer dislike her as intensely as when she was First Lady. I wish she had lobbied harder for stem cell research. Her son Ron certainly has been an eloquent spokesperson. I have sympathy for her because of her late husband's illness. My mother, now deceased, had Alzheimer's.
My favorite First Lady is the lovely Rosalyn Carter. Rosalyn and Jimmy Carter continue to live their lives for the benefit of the world. They are tireless workers who are authentic. Rosalyn traveled the world as First Lady. She knew the issues. She represented America with charm and dignity. And she was supportive of her husband without being simpering like Laura Bush or acting all high and mighty like Nancy Reagan.
I understand your antagonism toward her. But mine has dissipated with her advancing age. She's so frail now. And I find her more pathetic than loathsome.

[QMPMom]

34. Rosalyn Carter has dignity and class. She's also my favorite First Lady.

[G Hawes]

35. Easy there,

the sunglasses bit is a bit harsh. sort of like when bush made a stupid remark about the legally blind reporter wearing sunglasses during a press conference.

i don't blame you for disliking the woman, but by framing your dislike for her in terms of ripping her sunglasses off her face, well, that's just too bush-like. leave that kind of shit to the republicans.

[Raine]

37. I used to dispise her but I don't mind her anymore

especially when compared with the monster Bar Bush and the Stepford wife Laura.:mad: The sunglasses are for her eye problems and she can't help those, condemning her that reminds me of Joan Rivers harping on another celebrity who always wore a hate....turned out it was cause the woman was undergoing chemo. :blush:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

38. Hate Is Corrosive

It destroys the container well before the object of it...