Reasons we should honor Ronnie Rayguns. Send this list to your right wing friends:

[proud2BlibKansan]

1) As governor, he protected women's health and right to safe, legal abortions by signing one of the nation's first therapeutic abortion laws, making California a pro-choice state.

2) He promoted the power of unions and rights of workers, as president of Screen Actors Guild.

3) He understood the need for revenues for government and raised taxes multiple times, both as gov. of California and president of the US.

4) He signed the national Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday into US law (despite John McCain and AZ's objections...)

5) He respected the equal rights of women by allowing his wife Nancy to be acting president as he struggled with the early stages of Alzheimers.

Thank You President Raygun!!

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Cheers!

Number 5 will send them into fits of sputtering rage!

[rgbecker]

2. 6. Authorized the Most expensive government building ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Building_and_International_Trade_Center



In 1995, the Congress voted unanimously to name the building after President Ronald Reagan, who had signed the legislation authorizing its construction. Three years later, the building was officially dedicated on May 5, 1998. At the time it was built, the Ronald Reagan Building was the most expensive federal building ever constructed, at a cost of $768 million. As a federal office building, it is second in size only to the Pentagon. Its naming was controversial, because Ronald Reagan was considered to be a champion of small government and the building was seen by some as an example of "big government" and government waste.<1>


Each of the organizations located in the Pennsylvania Avenue building are dedicated to international trade and globalization.


As in "Send all the jobs somewhere else and fuck you America!"

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Oh that's a good one

He created jobs for Americans to build a building housing international trade offices which send jobs overseas.

[brewens]

4. The union president thing always struck me as proof of his being

totally opportunistic, with a complete lack of character or values. How does anyone go from union president to being a conservative Republican President of The United States? No one that ever gave a shit about anything changes that much.
No one could or should be more socialist than a union leader. A lot of conservatives consider that to be downright communist. Democratic union president was just a part to play when he developed political ambitions. It was no problem for him to switch roles and become a Republican when needed to.

[spooky3]

7. And, he was no longer pro union when the air traffic controllers went on strike.

[lonestarnot]

12. He was a piss poor actor too, couldn't do that either. Yeah opportunistic clown covers it.

[DBoon]

5. You forgot one

6) After appointing Nancy Reagan as acting president, she showed her undying respect and loyalty to fundamentalist christianity by obtaining spiritual guidance from an astrologer

[safeinOhio]

6. Don't forget

he proved deficits don't matter.

:rofl:

[rhett o rick]

8. I disagree with #5. Ronnie was a figurehead president.

Didnt matter what state of mind he was. Similar to Little Bushy.

[young_at_heart]

9. He definitely didn't like anti-war protestors----He called in the National Guard

This happened at UCSB a few years after I left. The year was 1970 and anti-war ideals were very strong (especially after the Tet offensive). Ronald Reagan flew out to Santa Barbara. During his visit, Reagan called the student demonstrators “cowardly little bums” and declared an “extreme state of emergency” in Isla Vista. Furthermore, he placed National Guard units on alert and threatened that he would declare martial law if necessary. Police were instructed to scatter groups of three or more and prohibit people from loitering on the streets.

Reagan made a speech to a Growers Convention on April 7, in which he made the following infamous
statement about campus disorders: “If it’s to be a bloodbath, let it be now.”

[rhett o rick]

10. See more at thinkprogress.org.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x354073

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Great list!

[rhett o rick]

18. Lots of great links embedded also. nm

[bvar22]

11. Add #6...His "cut & run" foreign policy.

When the Marine Barracks was bombed in Lebanon in 1983 killing 241 American Service personnel,
he pulled OUT of Lebanon...lock, stock, & barrel.

Th US wasn't going to sacrifice American Blood & Money in a country where we weren't wanted while Ronnie was president!

[treestar]

13. Just used on some right wing nuts.

Add the part about the amnesty to illegal immigrants, too! That has to get them.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. I figure it will shut up the fans

I'm already sick of their Raygun fest.

[tabasco]

16. Made ketchup a vegetable!

Sorta like Jesus!

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. Damn. How could that be left out?

LOL

[lunatica]

19. I wish they'd just leave him rotting in his grave

This crap of the media making him into a god is idiotic. The man gaffed his way through his entire presidency and fucking started the country in the direction it's in now.

With all due respect, I wish they'd stuff it. He allowed AIDs to become an epidemic and kill untold numbers of people just because it was a "gay disease". He was a fucking monster.

[Cleita]

20. As to your point #2, one of my landlords, a fairly

well know movie actor in the forties and fifties, told me he was an awful union leader and gave away most of their earned rights in favor of the corporate movie studios. This was back when he was running for Governor and my landlord begged everyone not to vote for him. I know your post is tongue in cheek, however, I thought DUers might appreciate a little anecdotal information on the fact that Reagan was a corporate patsy even way back then. Another actor friend told me the reason Jane Wyman divorced him was because she couldn't stand his politics anymore that were getting more and more conservative every day, however this is just speculation, but it makes sense.

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. Very interesting

but not surprising.