Posted on 06/04/2004 9:21:17 PM PDT by Rokke
Hollywood sources tell LA Weekly columnist Nikki Finke that former President Ronald Reagan's medical condition has suddenly worsened. "He really took a downslide today," the insider told Finke Friday evening. "Doctors are at the house. Things aren't good." At the start of the day, several news organizations chased down a rumor that the ex-president had died, but it wasn't true... Family members gathered at the Reagan's Bel Air home late Friday... Developing...
bump and prayers.
Godspeed to the ex President. Lord knows he is ready to pass on.
It is my sincere belief that most people would prefer to die with dignity. The day I know longer recognize my love ones, with no hope of recovery, I would welcome death rather than have them remember me as the ongoing burden I would become.
God bless President Reagan and his family, especially Nancy, who stood by him so valiantly throughout his decline.
Well said!...May God be with him and with the family.
I think when Reagan goes, all the leading US Democrats will pretend to be nice and will say some condolence words to them. I have seen Clinton acting in a manner that resembled the French "anti-Nazi Resistance fighters" who suddenly cropped up after WWII was long over by praising Reagan for defeating the Soviet Union. Let's face it: Reagan is very popular among most Americans, and any US leftists to the right of Noam Chomsky has enough sense to know not to say anything stupid on this, lest their actions sow for their defeats in November (or worse for them, damaging their course for two generations).
But not so among the European, Canadian, or NZ media or general public. I have read enough of the establishment media and opinions to know that they still hold contempt for this "foolish reckless imperalist cowboy". I have read articles saying that it was all Richard Nixon's work, as his detente strategy which laid the groundwork for the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, and I have also read other accounts which say that it was Gorbachev's voluntary decision for reforms which brought down Societ communism. But I have also known enough about the reality through reading the 1980s centre-right Chinese-language media (which were anti-Communist and anti-PRC) to know that much of the western establishment media were wrong.
Great post, and I mirror your sentiments. Just think where this country might be, if Carter had 4 more yrs, along with his socialist henchmen.
I think President Reagan was a great president and turned this country around after 4 terrible years. I take that back. He turned this country around after turmoil that started during the Johnson administration and went on straight through Carter. It was all of a sudden cool to love America again. I love that about him. And damnit, he was smooth whilst doing it. :)
That reporterette was Lesley Stahl.
I tried to explain to a younger brother that when Reagan was president, I didn't have to care about politics as if my life depended on it. I could just go about living my life as an American. When you saw his face on the television you could just smile and not always have to know the minutia. I don't think it will ever be that way again.
"Hiya Michael my boy, How's my Ronnie doing"
I didn't have the heart to him that Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's as well.
I hope my father gets to meet him in heaven
Slip the surly bonds of earth, dear Mr. President, and touch the face of God.
One of many of his great speeches. Thanks for posting that link. :)
Though his passing is at hand, I shed tears at this prospect. Tears that fall on the nation he preserved.
President Reagan was a man's man. My father was a life long democrat, but living through the times of the Carter inadequacies, and "malaise" my dad voted Republican for the first time as a "Reagan Democrat".
He saw in Ronald Reagan a fellow soul. As a veteran of the Pacific front {Midway, Coral Sea, Okinawa, and others I can't remember through my tears) my dad instinctively knew the party our family had stood behind, had changed...and he wanted no part of it anymore.
As for myself, I had been home from Viet Nam for close to ten years. To say that I was deluded as to politics is an understatement.
Having seen the President who helped bring me home nearly impeached, not to mention the impact of the peanut man pardoning all those who dodged the draft, and by Presidential order denigrate me and my fellow combat veterans sacrifices and valiant service as a crime and joke, I was ready to blow America and her politics off...permanently.
Thank GOD for his servant Ronald Reagan! With his election (with Dad's and my vote!) a bright day came over the horizon! Talk about a breath of fresh air!
President Reagan guided this nation back onto it's path of Glory...
His programs of tax reduction, Faith, and belief that America is indeed in Gods'heart, with hard work would again be the shining city on the hill!
Tears? yes! But they are tears of thankfullness that God would bless this nation with the likes of that ol cowboy...Ronald Wilson Reagan!
I am sure he will .. they are both good men ..
Keep the faith my friend, "An Anger still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm"
At times it almost seemed as if he would. He will be missed, but he will live on in the hearts and minds of the nation.
"An Angel still rides in the whirlwind and dirests this storm"
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