Reply #34: I'll just let John Kerry speak about Reagan

[jzodda]

Actually he said good things about him on more then one occasion.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20704-2004Jun6.html

"Ronald Reagan and many of us disagreed on one issue or another, but he always disagreed with a smile, without partisanship," the Massachusetts Democrat told reporters after attending morning Mass at St. Anthony's in Boston. "I think he had a sense of idealism and a sense of optimism of the possibilities about our country that define leadership."

Later, during his commencement address at the University of Toledo to Bedford High School's 400 graduates, Kerry segued from his prepared remarks commemorating D-Day to memorialize Reagan as a "modern giant."

"Yesterday we lost one of our great optimists. . . . He was the voice of America in good times and in grief," he told students, parents and teachers. "He spoke for our country, for the eternal cause of liberty. . . . Free men and women everywhere will forever remember and honor President Reagan's role in ending the Cold War. . . . He was our oldest president, but he made America young again."