Who doesn't like Reagan? Some critics silent, others can't hide venom

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Monday, June 7, 2004

[kcvl]

You have that right! I stopped watching that crap when they started calling in as Republicans and lying their brains out. When I asked about it C-Span was less than nice. They can have it.

[Kitanis]

I already found venom in some of the more Pacifist's type discussion forums.. Touting him as a great Satan and evil man.

One even blaimed Reagan for the "mess" we are in now in Iraq even though he was out of office almost 14 years before the Iraqi Invasion. Its sad to see that some of the more liberal people in our nation listen to the Liberal rhetoric and take it as gospel.

[garandgal]

"Then George W. Bush will try to ride Ronald Reagan’s coffin back into the White House.

"For that reason, it is necessary now to speak ill of the dead.

"As president, Ronald Reagan was a mediocrity. He has left no legacy. He did not change the world in any significantly good way. His greatest achievement was to win a war with Grenada. He ran for president blaming Jimmy Carter for high gas prices and for letting Americans be taken hostage in Iran – both situations that no American president could have prevented.”

This would have been a most hideous example of vitriol if it were said while he was alive. Since he passed to a better place only Saturday, it shows a hatred and sheer ignorance that can only be described as stunning.

How galling it must be for this worthless piece of human debris, that probably 90% of Americans disagree with him. Hope he likes it hot.

[goldstategop]

You know... even Gorbachev loves Reagan more than some people born in this country do. How sad.

[kcvl]

Religion is the root of much evil.

It has to be said.

Here is what I believe: There is no god, there is no messiah, there are no prophets plugged in to some divine will. There are no saints or holy men. If there is a heaven or a hell or any other kind of afterlife, we can’t know anything about it while we’re in this life, so it’s useless to speculate and foolish to believe. Faith is an empty box. To believe in Christ is to believe in a rabbit’s foot. To believe in the Buddha is to believe that pro wrestling is real. To believe in Mohammed is to believe that the groundhog can predict spring. To believe that the Ten Commandments came from some god on a mountaintop is to believe that television psychics can talk to your dead grandmother. Allah, Jehovah and the Trinity are elves and Tinkerbells. They are no more than desperate hope given a name and anthropomorphic shape by the imaginations of frightened men.

It has to be said.

Religion is superstition. It is mankind crossing its fingers. Its sole functions are 1) to comfort and console those who cannot bear the suffering and death that are ultimately the lot of every human being, and 2) to offer meaning in a world where meaning can never be established. Religion, in other words, is a fortress of lies built to keep out the terrors of existence and nonexistence. For those in power, it is useful in still another way: Since time immemorial, the powerful have used religion to distract the oppressed, to encourage them to focus on the next world so that they will acquiesce to the injustices of this world. If you would have your slaves remain docile, teach them hymns.

This is not saying anything new, but it has to be said again.

ED WEATHERS

[Begin]

...blaming Jimmy Carter for high gas prices ... that no American president could have prevented

Says a lilliputian whose ideological brethren are blaming President Bush for the current price of gas.

[onyx]

These small people and their venomous
words mean nothing to me, and they're
so insignificant, that they cannot even
begin to tarnish President Reagan.
I have nothing but a contemptuous pity
for these people.
Their hatred will kill them... slowly but surely.

[kcvl]

David Swanson
is the Press Secretary for Kucinich Campaign Organization

[kcvl]

Phil Gasper is professor of philosophy at Notre Dame de Namur University in California. He is a member of the National Writers Union and a frequent contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review. He can be contacted at pgasper@ndnu.edu.

[onyx]

Why bother?
He's an A-hole deluxe.

[onyx]

Thanks for the link.
If I feel the need to vent,
I might write him a nasty note.
LOL!

[Free ThinkerNY]

Christ had a message that is lost on Ed Weathers and Joseph Stalin. The Comrade needs a Draino enema.

[Mo1]

Well it would seem Peggy got it wrong about them blowing up on Friday

They already started

Oh and nice touch from the guy at the the Memphis Flyer -- It's all Bush's fault

These people are pathetic and disgusting

The man just died ... have they no shame?

[KC_Conspirator]

He has left no legacy.

This ignorant grease spot of a man in Memphis is a also a liar. Reagan's legacy is a free Europe. Millions enjoy freedom because of him. The US also has had 25 years of economic expansion, which is another of his legacies. The last legacy is a reinvigorated GOP.

[onyx]

You are correct.
They have no shame.
They are the embodiment of arrogance and hatred.

[kcvl]

Stories by Joe Davidson

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[kcvl]

May 21, 2003

Commentator Joe Davidson feels too much emphasis has been put on race in the case of Jayson Blair and The New York Times. Some claim Blair held onto his position for as long as he did because of affirmative action. Davidson insists that the so-called "good-ol'-boy" system of white privilege must be examined as well.

[Mo1]

They are the embodiment of arrogance and hatred.

And it will eat them alive

[kcvl]

Joe Davidson

Confederate symbols — including flags, statues and public facility names — denote slavery, segregation and White supremacy."


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[onyx]

Reparations?
Ah yes, he has an agenda.