Posted on 06/06/2004 11:31:03 PM PDT by kattracks
He lingered too long for his own good, but not long enough for his beloved Nancy and the many others who loved and admired him.
He was hated for precisely the same reasons he was loved. He had convictions and made those without them look weak.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was a colossus of the 20th century. Bobby Kennedy's brother, Ted, said RFK saw wrong and tried to right it. Ronald Reagan saw the evil of communism and did not try to contain or oppose it. He aimed to defeat it, and did, at least the Soviet brand. Millions breathe free today because of him. It is altogether fitting that the Berlin Wall stands no longer as a monument to slavery but in its deconstructed state as a testimony to freedom at his library in Simi Valley, Calif.
Freedom was what Reagan was about. He had seen too many people and governments that would limit human freedom to have anything but the highest regard for individual liberty as a God-given right.
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This is also true for George W. Bush.
[He] slipped the surly bonds of earth . . . put out (his) hand and touched the face of God."
Reagan used to say that America's greatest days are ahead of it. Now it can be said, so are his.
This is also true for George W. Bush.
Absolutely, and that is one of
the reasons the press hates him.
Look at them now, already worried
about comparisons being made.
President Reagan is enormously popular. No one can find a bad word to say about him. And that is what sticks up the Left's craw. They don't have anyone of his stature.
That's right.
President Reagan received the most popular votes of any president.
He is loved.
They hate that.
Speaks volumes, doesn't it?
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