As president, Reagan was a giant (Peggy Noonan)

MSNBC ^ | June 5, 2004 | Peggy Noonan

[umgud]

I too hope we don't react this way when a lib dies and I'm sure we'll have a miniscule number who might. At DU, however, I'm not talking about a miniscule few......

[Beth]

No, thy will never spin the outporing of love for this great statesman.

His legacy is something we can look up to, and be proud of.

[goldstategop]

Amen Peggy. You honor the President you served and your tribute to a great American has moved your country beyond all that words can say.

[alisasny]

Peggy was a wonderful assistant to the President. It must be hard on her today.

I dont know.. She has an angel now watching over while she had to endure his demise over the last 10 years. I think like she that relief and happiness is in order.

[alisasny]

They are miniscule. All they have is each other to spew their hate for anything good and right. Let them keep it up and stick together.

[okie01]

"Reagan called Soviet communism bankrupt and said it would end in our time. They laughed, but he was right. And in being right, and truthful, he reignited a somnolent West..."

And the left hated him for it...

[Mark de New Brighton]

It's who they are. It's what they do. Let them. They can't undo what Ronald Reagan did, no matter how hard they try.

[gortklattu]

The political events over the last 8 years have convinced me that evil has found an army within today's democrat party. Some of the party members are good people; but some are driven by the same hatred that has started wars and genocide.

When they dance because of the death of a political leader and castigate the person who freed a nation from tyranny we need no more proof as to the existence of true evil.

[gortklattu]

We must remember not to act like them when Clinton dies.

There is no reason to rejoice in the death of any person, as they are then going to their just rewards. I revere a tyrant's falling from power; but I do it by celebrating the new liberty that befalls the old victims.

[Incorrigible]

Agreed alisasny. It's always hard to endure the long goodbye and a relief at the relief of the aflicted.

They just played President Reagan's Challenger shuttle speech on FoxNews. One of Peggy's very best contributions to the President.

[ride the whirlwind]

Reagan called Soviet communism bankrupt and said it would end in our time. They laughed, but he was right.

He and GWB are alike in this way. They both tell it like it is, no matter who doesn't want to hear it.

[milagro]

I came into my office after watching the coverage of President Reagan's death feeling very sad, even though I knew my precious husband would be rejoicing in Heaven that President Reagan had at long last "slipped the surly bonds of earth". On my desk was my Bible--opened for a reason I do not remember to a verse hi-lited in yellow. This is what I was "given" to read: I will never blot out his name from the book of life but will acknowlege his name before my Father and his angels. (Rev. 3:4) I just have to share this experience with all you Freepers because I feel seeing those hi-lited words was no "coincidence" but rather a Comfort in a time of mourning.

So--God Bless Ronald Reagan and all those here who know what we have gained from his life and what we have lost by his death.

[Peach]

My dear freeper - thank you for sharing that lovely story and sentiments.

[ConservativeGadfly]

ORGANIZE A VIGIL IN YOUR CITY!!!!

Until www.reaganvigil.com goes live late tonight or early tomorrow, here is a link to the website to organize candlelight vigils in hometowns across America and internationally.

http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/reagan/


We put it together in a hurry, so please forgive its lack of slick appeal, but it should get the job done.

Send it out to everyone you know, every list you've got so that folks can get together and start organizing vigils!

And if you are in Washington DC Sunday night (6/5), come by Lafayette Park across the street from the White House at 6 PM.

Let's get this together for the Gipper!

KRD

[Tamzee]

Thank you so much... I have a new tag.

[Peach]

A great and appropriate tag.

[zip]

ping

[Thorin]

Ronald Reagan was a great man and a great president. They don't make many like him.

[El Gato]

His journey is ended...his work is done

I must disagree, while he can no longer contribute directly to it, the work goes on, as it always will. He's passed the task on to us, and it's our responsibility to continue to build on what he accomplished.

[El Gato]

You can tell by the crowds already gathering at the funeral home in Santa Monica that the press will NOT be able to spin the negativity/hate that they have for Reagan.

Well, maybe not, but Newsweek made a good attempt at it in their obituary. This is the lead paragraph. The spelling error is theirs. Tellingly, they can't spell conservatism :)

June 5 - By the time he left the Oval Office in 1988, Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular presidents of the previous 100 years, second only to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was also one of the most deeply divisive. As president, he cut taxes and drove the deficit to new heights, presiding over a bleak recession. He often botched his facts. Yet for his McCarthyist bent and staunch Goldwater conservativism, the cold warrior had a common touch. The crowds loved him; while sewing the seeds for the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union, the old actor could charm even his most begrudging critics.