You know, fuck all. There *was* some cool stuff about Reagan.

[LoZoccolo]

His hair. Fuck yeah!

[MercutioATC]

1. He got to work with a a couple of chimps...

Bonzo was one of them.

[Fresh_Start]

2. not to mention his support of freedom fighters

of course those freedom fighters were attacking civilian targets and later morphed into Al queda....but who could have predicted that feeding radicals and encouraging attacks on civilian targets could possibly backfire.

[DBoon]

10. or in Nicaragua, "Commandante Suicida "

I mean that sounds like the name of a Mexican wrestler.

How cool!

With a name like that, he should have fronted a death metal band.

If he had, a lot of people would be better off.

A lot of people who are now really really dead

[Fresh_Start]

11. and of course Iran

cause there was no chance that Iran would ever become a problem in the future.

[wyldwolf]

3. a man who loves jelly beans can't be all bad.

[LWolf]

4. I lived in CA when he was governor.

I endured his presidency.

I can remember only one "cool" thing.

He came to speak to a group of workers in the aerospace industry. I was married to one of them, so I took the day off work and went to hear him speak. It was a relatively small crowd, and he's the only president I ever got to see in real life.

Back when I believed that the office of the President deserved some respect whether or not the current person in office did.

[eFriendly]

5. The only "cool" thing about Reagan that I can think of. . .

is Ron Reagan, Jr.

Other than that, I have an autographed photo of Nancy Reagan at an orphanage that I am holding until a certain time when I can sell it to a collector. :evilgrin:

[tokenlib]

6. I'd vote for him!!

Ron Jr. is great. I miss seeing him regularly on the tube.

[Omaha Steve]

7. His first week in office....

He stopped payments for extended unemployment in a recession. I was on unemployment at the time. I remember it well.

[DBoon]

8. I just got out of school and started working full time then

He got rid of income averaging

Got rid of the deductibility of local sales tax (a big deal in CA).

Increased Social Security witholding.

My Federal taxes went UP because of Reagan

[DBoon]

9. Aren't Zombies kind of cool?

Zombie Reagan : "Brains!"

[cobalt1999]

12. He had some great quotes...

"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. "

"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying"

"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement. "

"How can a president not be an actor? "

"One picture is worth 1,000 denials. "

[ladjf]

13. Let's not forget about his fun visits with his personal adviser,

the fortune teller.

[demigoddess]

14. he promised the military pay raises and then gave money with one hand and

took it away with the other. After we got the Reagan pay raise my husbands pay actually went down 6 dollars.