Get an idea of how many people have fallen for the whole sympathy bit? Truly amazing. Maybe we should look back at what this poor olde disease afflicted man did, just in general:

Record tax breaks for the rich (sound familiar?)

Polices that sank the economy, lowered the standards and benefits of 90% of American workers, and raised unemployement (sound familiar?).

Trickle down economics: all the money the richest 3% will save in taxes will be spent and revitalize the economy for the average citizen (sound familiar?).

Policies and improper relationships that blurred the lines between politics and corporate agendas (sound familiar?).

Policies that made criminals of previously law-abiding citizens through a FEAR inspiring War on Drugs election strategy (sound familiar?).

Iran Contra: where to begin? What kind of a sham were the hearings and how many of the players that escaped prosecution have popped up in Bush's circle of friends and the War on Terror? Rumsfeld... Cheney... Dick Armey... Cesar Conda... I don't think Blue has enough server space to list all the connections.

Anyway, that said, yeah people get diseases and die. That's a bad thing, horrible when it happens, and a fact of life. However, I can list a few thousand people more deserving of reverence (guilt, pity?) than a man and his record of betraying the trusts of the offices he held.

And just to head off a few people early, Reagan was accused about misdeeds in other positions as early as 1952. Here's one for the history books:

http://www.moldea.com/reagan-gj.html

I have no problems calling a duck a duck, even if it's dead.


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A freind of mine just asked me to add on his hardliner religious views towards homosexuals and AIDS being a punishment from god. I wonder if he was a writer for Mike 'Savage' Weiner?

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This comment was edited on Jun 6, 03:46.