Posted on 06/05/2008 9:26:38 AM PDT by The_Republican
The quality of Reagan’s character infused everything he did. Well said by his daughter.
He died on June 5, 2004....today’s date. I know because my dad died a few hours later.....6-5-04
nice that she has made peace with her relationship with Magnus but I can pass on the rest of it
Both of Nancy's progeny were lefty cry babies, I doubt either of them voted for Dad.
“.....remember why so many people mourned so deeply when Ronald Reagan died. It had nothing to do with politics, but rather with the quality of his character.”
Liar.
Actually, I think there is truth to what she said.
Let’s not trash Patti’s memory of her Dad. We might not agree with her politics, but she’s made peace with her father and her relationship with him.
Let’s give her that at least, can’t we?
“Character is a journey.” -Bill Clinton
Sounds like she's admitting her faults...I can give her some credit for this.
Patti, it’s hard to buy into anything you or ronnie say. Please buy two copies of ‘The Living Years’.
At Ronald Reagan’s funeral, if all of his accomplishments were to be forgotten, then it brought a tear of disbelief and joy to my (then) 28 year old eye.
I was a kid when Reagan was president. His inauguration is my earliest childhood television memory. His accomplishments went largely missed by my child intellect.
But at his funeral, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev sat next to one another.
_sat next to one another_
That is the most incredible time in my life as an american. Proud of who a president was and what he did at a time in my life when I didn’t understand what he was doing, or who he was. Before I took on any political opinion, I knew that this man through courage and determination brought the world’s superpowers together, so much so that they chose to sit next to one another at his funeral.
Truly, one of the most incredible moments in history.
And the Klintons were sleeping in the front row.
Both.
But that is, of course, not what she said.
She said his politics had “NOTHING” to do with it.
RR’s intimates certainly mourned him for the person that he was, but she is saying that his politics had “nothing” to do with why the rest of America mourned his passing.
She is the one who is injecting her leftist point of view here, and she is clearly wrong.
My momma died the day before. : (
Anyone have a “The Best” DVD recommendation in re. Reagan’s funeral, memorial activities?
This moved me and I’m happy to see Patti finally come to understand her father. One thing that she says in the article is that she didn’t know anyone without regrets about their parents. I do, I am one of them. One reason that she doesn’t is because she never understood the commandment to Honor her mother and father. I do, and I did, and when I lost my parents I could grieve purely, without the regrets and shame of dishonoring them. With all my faults, and theirs, the parents that I grieve were the parents that gave me the tools that I needed to get through it. I’m surely blessed.
Just goes to show who had the vision and who didn't, who was right and who was wrong.
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