Posted on 06/09/2004 7:05:26 AM PDT by RonDog
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Professor Hewitt bump.
Reagan, as hard as it is to say goodbye, his timing will help Bush. People forget. Reagan has reminded them of what a strong country really is. Kerry now looks all the more ridiculous. Bush is the man for the job TODAY!
"Bush has totally attached himself to Ronald Reagan. He's going to turn Reagan into his own verifier."
Yep...
Tax cuts, freedom for the oppressed and smaller government. Two out of three is a start. Maybe in the second term Bush will go after big government.
These "Talking points" by the Dems are as phoney as can be. If what happens now is of no real impact......why is Kerry spending so much money trying to trash George Bush?
Good news for the Clintoons. Time to start gearing up for 2008 Hillary.
June 7, 2004That would be THIS thread:
Posted at 4:55 PM, Pacific
A thread at FreeRepublic points out that Hollywood will be honoring Ronald reagan at the next Oscars. Which will be very interesting given the almost certain Oscar win by Michael Moore's new bit of propaganda. America loves Reagan. Cannes and probably the Academy loves Moore. I'll go with America.
It's going to be quite funny at the OSCARS next year!!!
The Keyboard ^ | June 7 2004 | Bob Eimiller
Posted on 06/07/2004 4:41:49 PM PDT by Bob Eimiller
Then next Academy Awards will be something to behold. The segment when they honor their own after their passing....LOL
There is always a list with film clips of many departed actors.... and right after Tony Randall they are going to have to HONOR THE BELOVED RONALD WILSON REAGAN!!
Personally I can't wait...I seldom watch that narcisstic waste of time, but I certainly will this time...
ROTFLMAO<------- This is what I'll be doing! How about you?
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Thanks for posting this -- couldn't agree more!
Fox just showed the pictures of AF1 waiting to take Pres Reagan back to D.C.
Nice set of gears in Sadam's plasic grinding machine are now available.
AAR: PICTURES FROM REAGAN LIBRARY 6/7/04
Bob J's camera | 6/8/04 | Diotima
Posted on 06/08/2004 9:17:26 AM PDT by diotima
Reagan Library Pictures 6/7/2004
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Freepers (L to R) Dio, Doug from Upland, DoughtyToo,
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To: diotima
This is my report from the trenches last night.I am absolutely blown away by the showing for President Reagan.
Because I have two small children that needed to get to bed (a baby and a 7-year-old who had his school picnic today so couldn't take off school), I could only leave after their bedtime and leave Daddy in charge. My 12-year-old son accompanied me. We set off on our hour's drive toward Moorpark at 10 p.m.
We got stuck behind an accident on the 405 near the airport so we didn't get up to the 23 at the Collins exit until about 11:30. We took the 23 instead of the more common 118 from L.A. because of a FReeper's tip. They say you shave off an hour of wait that way. There was a temporary freeway sign posted that the wait ahead would be 3 hours. Then we saw it: the other 2 lanes of the freeway were empty, but there was nothing but a sea of red taillights as far as the eye could see in the right lane.
Just up ahead was an exit and some people were going off there. I decided to follow them. I had no idea where we were in relation to the college so I was relying on the cars in front of me. Well, after a few turns where they all went the same way, they basically petered out in all directions and I didn't know what to do. Sam was asking me to please make a U-turn. We had traveled what I thought was far from the freeway at that point and the road seemed a little desolate.
Then suddenly we came to a freeway onramp for the 118. We had a choice of E or W, but I had no earthly idea which way Moorpark College was from there. I crept up and peeked up the E and there was a long line of cars on the freeway. Obviously that was the right way. We went up and got into line. Behind us were probably 2 or more miles of cars, single file. We had accidentally taken a HUGE "legal" short cut!
We congratulated ourselves for a while. On the radio on KFI was a guy who was broadcasting live from the Reagan Library, which kept us company. It took 10 minutes to move a few yards. We were looking at bushes on the side of the road and clocking how long it took to get to each one.
Unfortunately, the talk show host was interviewing people who had come from Reagan's viewing, and they had been waiting for 5 hours before they got to the rotunda. We started to get worried. In half an hour, moving slower than a snail with crutches, we reached the exit offramp. We could see curving ahead of us nothing but a sea of red snaking up the overpass and around a bend. Below us in either direction on the freeway as far as the eye could see were "diamond necklaces," white lights of the cars in single file waiting to exit the freeway from both the east and the west.
An hour later, we were finally off the offramp, at the first signal on the overpass. The radio announced that it would probably take all night just to get to the parking lot from the freeway, and several hours of line-waiting around and around Moorpark College, until you got on the shuttle buses to drive the 5 miles to the Reagan Library, where no doubt there would still be lines, and then waiting to get back.
It was 1 a.m. We did not have all night, if we wanted to stay up all night. We could not afford to be stuck up at the Ranch all night when my husband needed to leave to work by 6 a.m. but wouldn't be able to because of the little boys.
We turned around.
We were so frustrated that we did not get to pay our respects.
However, as we left on the 118 E, we were completely SHOCKED. In the opposite direction (which was the main direction to the Reagan Library from all of L.A. and the Interstate 5 and most other directions) as we literally sped along on an empty highway at 80 mph, we were still passing an all-lane STANDSTILL several minutes later. There had to be about 5 miles of packed cars. The freeway was stopped dead. In the midst were some trucks, simply stuck in the middle of the people en route to see Reagan. I have never seen anything like it in my life nor will I ever, I believe. The outpouring of sympathy for the Reagans is absolutely without precedent. It brought tears to my eyes.
About 10 miles later, we stopped to use a restroom. We did not stop at one of the offramps near Moorpark. We did not pull into the first gas station we saw there. And yet in this little gas station, at 1 a.m., there was a line in the MiniMart to use the restroom, populated only by well-dressed turnarounds from the Reagan viewing! We were all so disappointed. We spoke only of the greatness of Reagan and how sad we were that we were not able to pay tribute tonight. I think the turbaned, bearded manager was astounded at our conversations. I can only imagine the cameraderie amongst the actual line waiters at the College.
This morning I find that our turnaround was for the best for our situation: the wait overnight had grown to 10 hours. And yes, the freeway standstill is for a full 5 miles.
Tired but proud of my fellow Americans,
Yaelle --
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This political dissecting of the political impact of the death of Ronald Reagan morbid & distasteful. I don't care who does it.
Thanks for the pings to Hugh Hewitt's columns... always a treat!
Well done. Anybody know who will be speaking tonite in the Rotunda? I assume Speaker Hastert will be speaking... anybody else? Cheney? Chief Justice Rehnquist?
Dem strategist Steve McMahon: "The focus on Ronald Reagan will inevitably lead to comparisons that frankly don't leave President Bush in such a good light."
And people pay him to say things like this? Man, I'm in the wrong line of work.
Both Ronald Reagan and George Bush come across as regular Guys. And that's a powerful asset for a politician.
Thanks for saying that...I was wondering if I was alone in this position...unless I am mistinterpreting your position.
When Paul Wellstone died the democratic party tried to use his death as a rallying cry for the election. They even went to the point of holding a campaign rally at his memorial.
Granted the Reagan service wont be turned into a call to arms for republicans have too much respect for the living and dead alike to behave so disgracefully. But the salivating of some conservative pundits about how Bush will get a bounce and all of thir thinly veiled glee at how this will translate into votes for Bush in 2004 is in my view just as bad. Dont get me wrong I am a big fan of Hugh he is a good man he personally wrote me back twice when I sent him emails on his show, and it not like he isnt being disrespectful towards the president. But I have to say he had a guest on at the start of his show yesterday and he asked him the same question he is asking all of his guests (which just goes to show that this issue is foremost in his mind) he asked if Bush was gonna get a bump out of this and the guy (former Reagan speech writer) you could tell he wasnt all that comfortable with the question. It is frankly in my view inappropriate. Its one thing to wonder privately...maybe its ok to even postulate on it once or twice publicly. But Hugh is asking every one of his guests and now writing articles for publication about how this is a win win for Bush Sure the focus of the article is how great Reagan was..but so was the wellstone memorial...underneath however is a very clear sense of "This is good for Bush". Its not appropriate. Its certainly not as tasteless and tacky as the Wellstone memorial but it is tasteless and tacky nevertheless. I think it makes us look bad.
I thought it was tasteless for Wellstonians to try to turn Wellstones death into a political issue. In honesty and integrity I have to demand the same standard from our own.
The comparisons to the pre-1980 Cold War and today's War on Terror are clear. The War on Terror provides more immediate danger. I pray that good will win again.
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