Posted on 06/06/2004 10:59:47 AM PDT by kalama
Quotes: A Nation Reacts
Following are quotations on the news that former President Ronald Reagan has passed away.
Actor Danny Glover: 'We all know Ronald Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died.
The groundwork for the move steadily to the right happened with the Reagan administration.
People want to elevate him to some mythic level, they have their own reason for doing that.'
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
No it is perfect. Look at the list of people praising President Reagan. Now for balance they find someone who will be critical. Compare the stature of the multitude praising President Reagan and the one criticizing him.
danny, danny, danny. Grow up, but I guess hitler, stalin, saddam had their supporters and Washington, Lincoln, etal had their detractors too. dan baby is one bitter dude.
...I never liked his acting, I respected his leadership...
You might add that 49 dimocRat representatives signed a letter of support and sent it to the Sandinista Presidente. Yes, in writing.
FUDG
With the list of all the notibles quoted, why would they print a quote from a washed up 3rd rate actor that can't even get booked to do a commercial anymore?
Danny Glover is the man Cornell University chose to honor as its Convocation speaker a few years ago. Others in that "distinguished" line have included James Carville and of course, this year, none other than Bill Clinton.
Noted. Thanks. The dems are unbelievable.
Just when WAS the last time anyone saw that lickspittle in a decent movie?
If I could ensure folks would witness the event, and know why...I'd smash my lethal weapon DVD's. I don't need them. And this country does not need racist commies like Glover/
I loved it when Whoopi Goldberg's character pulled a butcher knife on Glover at the end of "The Color Purple."
Spot on. If I might add -- because most responsible are still proud of their dishonorable behavior -- Congress was simply reprising it's execrable performance wrt to Indochina, when the left, including "mainstream" representatives and senators, insisted on abandoning Cambodia and South Vietnam to aggressive communist hegemony even AFTER Nixon had negotiated honorable peace accords with North Vietnam.
They claimed they were for "peace," they claimed they were for a negotiated extraction of American forces, and that they would still stand behind our beleaguered allies with aid and other resources, but this was a lie. When peace was at hand they worked as hard -- if not harder, and even more intentionally -- at losing the peace as they had at undermining the war effort. (Further comments here.)
Vietnam has taught us, the struggle for democracy in Central America has taught us, and now the fight in Iraq has taught us, that the capitulation crowd, proudly represented by the current presumptive Democrat candidate for President, can NEVER be trusted with America's security, or the security of any people seeking to attain or defend human liberty.
Yardstick!
Could you add something like " ...and Ollie North should have received the Congressional Medal of Honor instead of the bashing he took from the .... blah blah blah....
I, for one, have maintained that thought ever since the whole thing came to light.
Sailorman
I don't agree (and didn't then either). Ollie North scr@wed the pooch. He handled his part of the operation incompetently; he screwed up repeatedly; he bore a large measure of responsibility (which he never to my knowledge owned up to) for its unraveling and for some of it more embarrassing aspects.
BTW, I don't dislike Ollie at all, and have nothing but admiration for his service as a Marine otherwise, I just think it's the fact of the matter: that wrt to Iran-Contra he screwed up pretty bad.
"The groundwork for the move steadily to the right happened with the Reagan administration."
Actually, the move was less to the right and more away from the left, as people compared the words and deeds of conservative MEN like Reagan to the whining, capitulating, socialist thumbsucking bloviations of RUMPSWABS like Glover and his ilk.
Who would you trust YOUR daughter to be alone with?
People fled (and are fleeing) to the right, leaving the detritus behind to wallow in the mental masturbation of their extremist liberalism. Take a look at DU for a virtual cornucopia of liberal hate speech from this very detritus.
God bless Ronald Reagan and George Bush and men and women like them!
or when Dennis Quaid killed him on the train in the Rockies when Glover played a psycho.
Great. Thanks for the confirmation.
Present! ;o)
Could you add something like " ...and Ollie North should have received the Congressional Medal of Honor instead of the bashing he took from the
I'm a fan of Ollie, too. Stultis probably has a point about him botching things, though.
But even though he may not be up for a medal, isn't it true that Ollie emerged as kind of a minor hero despite the Dems and their grand inquisitor routine?
I remember at the time that my dad had a poster depicting a cartoon Ollie, smiling and giving the thumbs up, manning a paper shredder in the shape of an M-60 machine gun. The documents (presumably documents dealing with Iran-Contra) were feeding in one side like an ammo belt and the shredded bits were pouring out the barrel. There was a caption, too, that I can't remember, but the message was that Ollie was fighting for the good of the nation by resisting the Democrat inquisition. It was a positive portrayal. The fact that such a poster was designed and distributed tells me that there may have a been a fairly broad understanding and appreciation for what Ollie and his cohorts had done.
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