RE Prime Minister Lech Walesa.: I saw him live, it was touching, this man got on his knees before the casket and honestly prayed. Amazing that it is so rare to see in this century. Dems looked so lost at the wellstone funerally it was pathetic.
The diffence, I believe, is that respect displayed for both is evident. The welstone "memorial" was not a memorial it was a display of the lack of respect from the so called friends. Judging from that "memorial" he had none because they used his cold corpse as a doorstop to prop open a door of opportunity for an election victory.
As a registered voter, you don't spend 5-8 nameless hours waiting in line just because you seriously think it will bring election victory to the polls. What you see with reagan would have happened regardless of the when.
The one differnece, the media would have waited till thursday to start bashing Reagan and by reference Bush. If it was after the election, there would not have been the DNC talking points we are seeing, it would be different DNC talking points.