Author Topic: Ronald Regan, dead at 93 (Read 1827 times) Tweet Share

Dave Gilbert · « **on:** 08 Jun 2004, 02:26 »

The news has been on every news channel today, along with every editorialist and their cousin voicing their opinion of the man. I usually bad-mouth the Regan years, but that is only when I view him through older and world-weary eyes. When I was a little kid, his warm personality and easy-going maner always gave me an inexplicable sense of security. He was the earliest U.S. president I can remember existing. Ah well. So long, Gipper.

LordHart · « **Reply #1 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 02:30 »

This happened a few days ago now... but its sad...

Darth Mandarb · « **Reply #2 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 03:19 »

I just found out about it today ... and it makes me sad. Both my grandfathers had alzheimers (sp?) so I know what the former president's family has been going through.

I've always really liked the Ray Gun (that's what my friends and I used to call him when we were kids).

Like Dave Gilbert, he's the earliest president I can remember.

Rest in Peace President Regan

BOYD1981 · « **Reply #3 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 03:29 »

my grandad died last monday aged 84, why isn't that on the news?

Peter Thomas · « **Reply #4 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 03:35 »

Depends, boyd. Did he have two wives and nearly get assassinated?

LordHart · « **Reply #5 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 03:43 »

Yes... $:-\$

BOYD1981 · « **Reply #6 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 04:17 »

Quote from: Peter Thomas on 08 Jun 2004, 03:35

Depends, boyd. Did he have two wives and nearly get assassinated?

no, but he did once get captured by nazis and spent a few years in a nazi POW camp, he could also whistle through one of his ears as a result of being clobbered in the side of the head with a gun by a nazi soldier

TerranRich · « **Reply #7 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 04:18 »

Was he the leader of a country? I think not.

BOYD1981 · « **Reply #8 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 04:53 »

so you think people will be saying great things about george bush once he dies or gets ill just because he was leader of his country do you?
people die every day, why should anyone get any kind of special treatment in death just because of who they were?

DGMacphee · « **Reply #9 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 05:02 »

Simple.

It's because the media is a whore for stories that will attract readers.

Since Reagan is a well-known person, he gets the front page.

It doesn't matter how unpopular president you are, you'll still grab headlines with your death.

Even Nixon got the ink.

Moox · « **Reply #10 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 05:18 »

I give my condolences to his family and friends, but I really dont care.

Not to get off subject... Boyd for once I agree with you!
There is no famous people, I just see them as spoiled and rich. Why do they get free crap and special treatment just because there in a few movies or were politicians. I mean who frickin cares who an 21 year old tramp is going out with, has fake boobs, or smokes.

Nacho · « **Reply #11 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 07:09 »

Complaining because our beloved relatives (But let´s admitt it, unknown by the great public) don´t are in the news when dying is the most illogic and demagogic thing I´ve ever read here.

Are you serious? Do you really thing that it is feasible or practival to announce everyday in the news the names of the 6,000 people dying in every country?

Please, be serious... and don´t call me something like "Insensitive" or something, I also had dead relatives, it is just that I don´t expect them to be in the Yahoo.com news.

LordHart · « **Reply #12 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 07:37 »

Quote from: DGMacphee on 08 Jun 2004, 05:02

Even Nixon got the ink.

Holy crap! Nixon's dead?! I thought he was still alive... $:-\$

Timosity · « **Reply #13 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 08:01 »

I'm not really sad about it, he would have lived a great life being a movie star and president.

It's also the 1st US president I remember as a kid, and he did do some good things for the world.

It's more sad that he went through Alzheimer's, cause living to 93 is a pretty good effort.

I've known people with Alzheimer's and it's hard for the person in the early stages cause they sort of know it's happening, but in the later stages it's much worse for the family to see them like it.

So really for everyone involved it's probably more of a releif than any sort of sad occasion, he now gets to rest in peace happily.

And as far as headlines go of course an expresident, exprime minister, exworld leader is going to get headlines. there's pleanty of people in this world that go unrecognised for heroic things, way more heroic than any world leaders, but that doesn't sell papers, and that's what it's all about in the corporate world.

Did Boyd Smith get in the media for sending dirty text messages, accepting blowjobs from strange people, 'not' having 'sexual relations' with dead Antelope's? of course not

Igor · « **Reply #14 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 08:09 »

Quote from: DGMacphee on 08 Jun 2004, 05:02

It doesn't matter how unpopular president you are, you'll still grab headlines with your death.

And just how ironic this is

To be fair, i don't mind media covering (he's a former president after all), what i find funny are people reactions. Everyone goes: "I'm really sad, my condolence to his family", even though half of them were making fun of him before or didn't like him at all. Media freaks

Iceboty V7000a · « **Reply #15 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 10:49 »

Actually I'm quite amazed some of you westerners learned of the news so late, we got the news on Sunday morning.

Andail · « **Reply #16 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 11:48 »

Looking at his skills as a politician (something americans tend not to do) he might very well have been the second or third worst president of USA.
Interestingly, he was on the right place at the right time, and with the right speech-writers in his staff, to appear like the one who ridded the world of the communists.

But hey, he was folksy, rethorical and not too intellectual; the ideal american president.

Ali · « **Reply #17 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 12:23 »

It's just a pity Thatcher's still alive.

Farlander: Are you wryly suggesting that I shouldn't rejoice in the death of another human being? Um...

Nacho · « **Reply #18 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 12:35 »

Quote from: Ali on 08 Jun 2004, 12:23

It's just a pity Thatcher's still alive.

Funny...

Matt Brown · « **Reply #19 on:** 08 Jun 2004, 12:49 »

as a president, he was one my least favorite in our entire history, (ahead of pirece, and prehaps behind our current bush and van buren). I cant really forgive him for iran/contra, (and the repercusions that happened to my mom in college for protesting agasint covert action in latin america) and he ballooned our deficit, and made the poor poorer.

that being said....

Its good the news is printing about him. He's still important, and prob one of the few US presidents who actually left a mark, be it good or bad, on the world. He was carismatid, and forever changed both of our major political parties. (the democracts didnt get power again until they began to use some of Reagans ideas)

its too bad that he went out the way he did. I bet he and his family suffered a lot. I hate reagan as a preident, but not as a person. He desreves his days in the news