Text of Michael Reagan's Remarks

[ReaganandDubyaForever]

Wow, what a testimony to the greatness of Ronald Reagan.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Michael Reagan was eloquent. He is his father's son.

[admiralsn]

I am going to get the Kleenex before I read this again.

[ex 98C MI Dude]

Makes you believe that there is, indeed, a God. And that He hasn't turned His face from us.

After all, He gave us Ronald Wilson Reagan. What more needs to be said?

[mcenedo]

very nice, very nice

[Thane_Banquo]

Of all the elegant eulogies this week, Michael's was the most beautiful and touching.

[nmh]

I think more highly of him than his biological children. There is genuine love there between him and his father. As for the other two ... who knows?

[job]

No, what a testimony to Michael Reagan. I have so much admiration and respect for Michael.

[syriacus]

Thanks for posting this.

I missed hearing it and wondered what he said.

[Grassontop]

Michael touched my wife and I so much that we both cried, and our hearts sure do go out to Nancy! Praise Jesus for such a woman of love, even after President Reagans death! Humbling experience for Americans who have a heart!

[Delbert]

Michaels eulogy was amazing!

[Keith in Iowa]

Comparing Michael to his surviving siblings really makes the "nature vs. nurture" arguments rather muddy...

[BigSkyFreeper]

No, what a testimony to Michael Reagan. I have so much admiration and respect for Michael.

I have the greatest admiration and respect for Michael. I admire and respect him equal to that of his father. I just know that God is working through Michael right now.

[bereanway]

Obviously RWR loved Michael very much and Michael fully grasped that love. RWR purposed to pass his spiritual heritage on to Michael and that is now a very great comfort. Michael can now rejoice that his father's passing is but a momentary separation.

[wai-ming]

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Can the Associated Press do this? These are Michael Reagan's words. He, not the press, should own the copyright to them.

[shhrubbery!]

God bless Michael Reagan. What a beautiful, honest and heartfelt tribute to his Dad. Even if he doesn't share RR's genes, Michael has inherited Ronald Reagan's faith, his goodness, and his lack of ego.

[Robert Lomax]

Surfed through the channels while there was a break on Fox and heard Chris Matthews criticize his commments. Matthews more or less stated that Mike was proselytizing his evangelical Christian beliefs at his dad's funeral and wore his religion on his sleave.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Dear Mr. President,

Thank you for saving the world from its own madness.

I bid you a fond farewell.

With deepest respect,

D.M.

[little jeremiah]

For Matthews to criticize Michael Reagan for talking about God at his father's funeral is psychotic.

At funerals one SHOULD speak about God and eternal life. That is exactly the topic one should be focusing on.

It is terrible that so many people not only hate God but feel confident and proud of that hatred. Matthews should be very ashamed of himself.

[Libertina]

God's arms are around you, Michael... you have been a good son.