Reagan billboard goes up in Rep. Bachmann's district: "Remember real hope and change?"

[Newsjock]

Source: Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages

Remember real hope and change? That's the message accompanying a big portrait of former President Ronald Reagan on a billboard along I-94 in Albertville.

... Bob Schwartz, at Franklin Outdoor Advertising, confirmed this morning that the company owns the billboard, but for now didn't have any information about who paid for it.

Albertville is part of GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann's 6th Congressional District.

Read more: http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2010/03/ronald_reagan_a.php

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Photo at link

[Arkana]

1. Yeah, Iran-Contra, arms for hostages, supply-side economics...

those sure were the days.

Fuck you, Michele Bachmann. I hope Tarryl Clark wipes the floor with your crazy ass in November.

[LiberalLoner]

3. Please, please, let Bachmann lose next election. Please.

[EFerrari]

10. Raygun is the reason homeless people get tarred as "crazy"

because he shut down psych hospitals.

What no one remembers is that he also gutted HUD and so, affordable housing.

Busy little felon.

[Arkana]

12. Seeing as how I was born in 1985 and was only 3 when Reagan left office,

I don't have many tangible memories of his reign of terror.

But I'm sure you're right.

[Forkboy]

15. Imagine a likable Bush in office and you have Reagan.

:puke:

[EFerrari]

18. I only put it together very recently, shame on me.

He cut HUD's budget by 3/4s, the evil bastard.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0610-03.htm

[Forkboy]

14. +1

[ChicagoSuz219]

23. You forgot Star Wars... ;-) n/t

[johnnie]

2. "Remember real hope and change?"

Reagan didn't remember.

[DJ13]

6. OUCH!

:rofl:

[mix]

4. We're still living that nightmare.

Fuck Reagan.

[EFerrari]

8. Leave a comment. No reg needed. n/t

[Initech]

5. Why do the repukes worship Raygun?

[Hansel]

33. Because he could mimic Clint Eastwood? "Make my day."

Not too many presidents could do that.

Oh, and because he blamed the poor for the nation's problems? Especially those on welfare--welfare queens or code for Black people?

And he thought ketchup was a vegetable? And he should know.

[EFerrari]

7. Left a comment. They'll probably not post it.

They're gearing up for the Raygun-a-Palooza next year.

[Forkboy]

17. They should just dig the fucker up and get it over with.

Hell, even I'd pay money to see it, but only because I love zombie flicks. :)

[EFerrari]

20. LOL.

I put up a thread asking for suggestions for a site name re Reagan and there were good suggestions but nothing really said, "buy me!".

Something like Zombie Reagan is a LOT closer to what I need. :hi:

[Forkboy]

22. Well, the GOP could get money from both the psycho Repubs and hardcore zombie fans.

I'd pay 20 caballeros to see Reagan's corpse gnaw on a Tom Savini made Michael Moore, just for shits and giggles if nothing else! Where's George Romero when we need him!!! :evilgrin:

[MrsMatt]

24. Nah, they probably will.

City Pages is pretty liberal - they love to hate on Bachmann.

[EFerrari]

29. Can you tell me how to view the comments? I can't seem to find

the link.

[RedCloud]

9. They were so stingy they didn't even trickle down pee on us!

[Mojambo]

11. No, but I remember ketchup as a vegetable, crack cocaine and ignoring AIDS.

Fuck Reagan. I wish there was a hell for him to burn in.

[Forkboy]

13. Remember real government cheese and deals with terrorists?

[Hansel]

35. I met Ted Kennedy when he was on his search for hunger tour

when Reagan said that there were no people going hungry in the US.

I coordinated the cheese and butter distribution at the social service agency I worked at. It was pretty cool. He was such a gracious man and made me feel like I was the only person in the world when I was introduced to him. I can't remember a thing either one of us said, I was so starstruck. I think he was thanking me for the work I did and I was like, giggle giggle, thank you, giggle giggle.

[Forkboy]

37. Cool story.

And thank you for helping. It was a tough time. :hug:

[Hansel]

39. Thanks.

I sure was.

[EFerrari]

16. How do you view the comments at that site? n/t

[SOS]

19. The change, 30 years later,

is that the applied economic theories of Reagan/Greenspan/Friedman/Rand have wrecked the country.
I remember their happy horseshit well and now have to exist in the financial hell they created.

[bobbolink]

21. Unfortunately, the Dems themselves, including Obama, have paved the way for this kind of

disingenuous push-back.

[upi402]

25. Dump the mentally ill on the street

"Free" them. Like "free" trade turned out. Badly.
Reagan is surely in hell if there is one. If not, I don't want to go wherever he is.

[Solly Mack]

26. Brain rot abounds.

[Bitwit1234]

27. Remember the old Burma Shave signs

well I think someone should put them up along the road and list all the crummy stuff and the reaganomics of Reagan's administration that started all this mess in the first place.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

28. "This man killed them."

:smoke:

[asjr]

30. Somewhere somehow I seem to remember

after Reagan quit making movies he panhandled for Twenty Mule Team Borax. Am I correct or just dreaming?

[blondeatlast]

31. My mom remembered it when he was elected.

She was just incredulous that he got elected Guv--damn near apoplectic when elected Prez.

[asjr]

32. You have a very smart Mom!

[blondeatlast]

42. Had, but yers, she was smart, savvy, and always political.

My parents were both very liberal.

[Hansel]

34. I remember when he was shot.

My boss asked if it was fatal. I said no. He hung his head and seriously said "too bad". I was shocked because he seemed like the type of person who would never say that and because he was so serious.

My boss was the head of a social service agency serving the inner city. We watch this clown, that the right idolized, destroy one family after another with his callous "leadership".

One of the woman I worked with, my boss's secretary, had to quit her job because he ended subsidies for Medicaid for the working poor. She had a son who was quadrupolegic. She sobbed when she found out she could no longer afford to work.

[rasputin1952]

36. That, and I think Chestefields...

I remember Borax, but Reagan was such a fool, even back then...how many actors can be upstaged by a chimp, and like it!

I found this:



Holy Shit!:

[Hansel]

38. Michelle Bachmann broke down sobbing on the MN senate floor

because the senate voted against changing the name of Olson Memorial Highway to Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway. This was, of course, before Reagan was dead and in the only state in the union that did not vote for Ronald Reagan for president ever.

The woman is completely nuts.

[Motown_Johnny]

40. Remember being warned about what his "trickle down economics" would do to the deficit?

I do

[MisterP]

41. well, I remember a lobotomized B-movie actor with a Gary Busey voice

who expanded a secret government, wrecked the middle class, killed 250,000 in Central America alone, and spawned a generation of goose-steppers who revived the Red Scares and deny every single thing I just mentioned