This Just In- Ronald Regan Dead At 93

Ronald Regan
1911-2004
yeah, i just heard it, Ronald Regan, Ex-President died today at 93 years young

WASHINGTON -- Former President Ronald Reagan, the unflagging optimist who lived longer than any former US president, died this afternoon, his family announced.

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan and their children, Patti Davis and Ron, were at his home in the exclusive Bel-Air section of Los Angeles when he died at 93. Reagan, who has battled the brain-wasting Alzheimer's disease for a decade and has been bedriden for months.

Just last month, the former first lady described her husband's deteriorating condition as a "long journey that has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him."

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"Brain-wasting?"

He had a helluva life though. Actor, star, President.

He had a helluva life though. Actor, star, President.

R.I.P.

Alzheimer's is a terrible condition. My grandfather was starting to develop it just before he passed away in 1995, so I can imagine how difficult and upsetting it must have been for the Reagan family. RIP.

Rest In Peace Ronald Reagan. You were a great president and we appreciate what you have done for us.


Thank you

What I really want to know is how any of you were actually alive during his presidency? Sure the thing to say is we appreciate what you did for us but ... you can't really appreciate it by reading a book. If you actually remeber the cold war then you can really speak your mind. I think I was in elementary school and I remember watching on TV the wall coming down.

Ronald Reagan? Is he the old guy from the Viagra adds? I guess he won't be needing it anymore...

Nah he's the guy that sits at the table with that old woman in the Sunrasia ad going "It's full of natural vit-a-mins and minerals, isnt that right dear?"

Reagen? A good President?

What the bloody hell are you talking about?

Reagan, the raging Republican, fucked up the economy, destroyed all of the clean air and environment awareness laws...

To Quote The Nation
By David Corn
June 6, 2004
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Editor's Note: This list of "66 Things to Think about When Flying in to Reagan National Airport" appeared in the Nation on March 2, 1998 after the renaming of Washington National Airport after Ronald Reagan. As Corn says, "the piece remains relevant today – particularly as a cheat sheet for those who dare to point out the Reagan presidency was not all that glorious and was more nightmare in America than morning in America."



The firing of the air traffic controllers, winnable nuclear war, recallable nuclear missiles, trees that cause pollution, Elliott Abrams lying to Congress, ketchup as a vegetable, colluding with Guatemalan thugs, pardons for F.B.I. lawbreakers, voodoo economics, budget deficits, toasts to Ferdinand Marcos, public housing cutbacks, redbaiting the nuclear freeze movement, James Watt.



Getting cozy with Argentine fascist generals, tax credits for segregated schools, disinformation campaigns, "homeless by choice," Manuel Noriega, falling wages, the HUD scandal, air raids on Libya, "constructive engagement" with apartheid South Africa, United States Information Agency blacklists of liberal speakers, attacks on OSHA and workplace safety, the invasion of Grenada, assassination manuals, Nancy's astrologer.



Drug tests, lie detector tests, Fawn Hall, female appointees (8 percent), mining harbors, the S&L scandal, 239 dead U.S. troops in Beirut, Al Haig "in control," silence on AIDS, food-stamp reductions, Debategate, White House shredding, Jonas Savimbi, tax cuts for the rich, "mistakes were made."



Michael Deaver's conviction for influence peddling, Lyn Nofziger's conviction for influence peddling, Caspar Weinberger's five-count indictment, Ed Meese ("You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime"), Donald Regan (women don't "understand throw-weights"), education cuts, massacres in El Salvador.



"The bombing begins in five minutes," $640 Pentagon toilet seats, African-American judicial appointees (1.9 percent), Reader's Digest, C.I.A.-sponsored car-bombing in Lebanon (more than eighty civilians killed), 200 officials accused of wrongdoing, William Casey, Iran/contra. "Facts are stupid things," three-by-five cards, the MX missile, Bitburg, S.D.I., Robert Bork, naps, Teflon.

To Quote The Nation
By David Corn
June 6, 2004

Aka, to quote a leftist rag and the most bitter man in Washington.

Reagan's Reaganomics exploded the economy and he took down the Soviet Union.

To quote our own Dr. Seth years ago on here:

If i could attest, as a son of Spanish/Basque descendents, plagued by lower class life for 2 generations upon their arrival to America, I can attest that Reaganomics, which you so denigrate, moved my family out of a shitty hole in the wall on 26th and California in Green-controlled tax hungry Santa MoniWatts to a nicer house in Industri-rural periphery of Los Angeles. Our family, myself included, though I was only a toddler at the time, are eternally grateful. Reaganomics worked for our family, our neighbours, and friends. And while we still are considered lower class, Reaganomics at least got us a house in an area of Los Angeles where crime is not so rampant and unbounded, though it still be not pretty. And if that was 'no walk in the park'...i'll consider it a light jog... and a success..

Reagan fixed Carter and Nixon.

Ronald Reagan? Is he the old guy from the Viagra adds? I guess he won't be needing it anymore...

Bob Dole.

What I really want to know is how any of you were actually alive during his presidency? Sure the thing to say is we appreciate what you did for us but ... you can't really appreciate it by reading a book. If you actually remeber the cold war then you can really speak your mind. I think I was in elementary school and I remember watching on TV the wall coming down.

You don't have to be alive for tat time to appreciate something. When you were born and your parents bought you everything you needed to survive, you appreciated that right? It's kind of like the same thing.

Just trying to help

Ronald Reagan? Is he the old guy from the Viagra adds? I guess he won't be needing it anymore...

Bob Dole.

What I really want to know is how any of you were actually alive during his presidency? Sure the thing to say is we appreciate what you did for us but ... you can't really appreciate it by reading a book. If you actually remeber the cold war then you can really speak your mind. I think I was in elementary school and I remember watching on TV the wall coming down.

You don't have to be alive for tat time to appreciate something. When you were born and your parents bought you everything you needed to survive, you appreciated that right? It's kind of like the same thing.

Just trying to help

It's just that todays generation is so fucked up that I don't think people are sincere when they say they appreciate what old timers like Reagan did.

Reagan was quite possibly the greatest U.S. President we have ever had. He will be missed.