Posted on 04/25/2009 12:18:26 PM PDT by presidio9
Reagan is the man who shaped my political landscape, he is a true hero who freed more people then anyone else when he ended the Cold War and stopped communist oppression. He deserves this.
Reagan should be in the middle of the Wash. Mall or Mt Rushmore or both.
Reagan will not be on Mount Rushmore Obama will be
America is now a foreign country. One wonders whether things will have to get considerably worse to make the idea of the US as a people with a government, and not the other way around, once again seem natural to a majority of Americans.
Yes, he deserves this AND much more.....like schools named after him....streets named after him.....etc.....
Yeah, I said "should" not "will". :-)
Based here in San Diego is the aircraft carrier USS Reagan
you’re saying they win? that is damn premature. America DOES still have a chance.
Visit Washington DC sometime, and see if you can find a single person who even knows where Reagan National Airport is. They still call it Washinton National. Especially gay men, who blame Reagan for the AIDS epidemic. I'm not making this up, I have had a lot of experience doing business in DC.
Meanwhile, liberals in NY recently voted to change the name of the of the Triboro bridge, the second most used major bridge in NYC (and probably the world), to the Robert F. Kennedy bridge. Normally, I'd say "who cares?," but there are a lot of reasons for not naming a NYC bridge after this man. He wasn't from NY. He didn't even serve one full term as Senator. That term was only eventful in the sense that he used it to launch a presidential campain. He was assassinated durning that campain, and died a relatively young man (also unremarkable for the Kennedy family).
Meanwhile, there no bridges or highways in NYC named for Teddy Roosevlet, Alexander Hamilton, or Nathan Hale three of the most significant names in American History. All have far more important ties to NYC.
I’m buying a jackhammer.
I have visited DC...and I flew into Reagan, but you’re right....I think everyone called it Washington Nat’l.
There will be no Mount Rushmore when 0bama is done. We can only worship one person and it is our Dear Leader...
Getting that resolution past the California Assembly was no small task. There is a long story about how Hollingsworth was able to force the Democrats into approving and releasing the resolution that last day of session. He’s the hero in all of this.
Better a statue of Reagan near the capitol than that damned statue of General Sherman.
Throw a rope around it and drag the damned thing down. And replace it with Reagan.
Turn Shermans bronze in to toilet parts.
Get over it. Sherman was one of the best things to ever happen to the South.
Moonman62,
If folks can protest a lot of southern folks carrying a flag that represents their heritage, I can protest a statue on our Nations Capitols grounds celebrating the man responsible for burning down the south and killing many of its best.
Get over it?
Get over 9-11?
Get over Pearl Harbor?
Get over a lot of things?
NOt a chance.
Imagine what a wondeful world we might live in right now if it weren’t for terrible people like William Tecumseh Sherman. The Civil War would have dragged on costing the lives of hundreds of thousands of young American boys. This may have eventually opened the door to European intervention. The South may have held out long enough to force the Union to capitulate. The best case there would have been an extended period of slavery in the South. The worst is the end of the Union.
The South seceeding was as dumb as Japan attacking Pearl Harbor. From the beginning the outcome was certain. The only question in each case was how many lives it would cost. People who attack Sherman are just as clueless as people who question the morality of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The outcome of the Civil War was certain from the outset? Seriously? I’d like some citation or evidence of that.
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