This is the funniest comment yet in the whole ‘Bill Clinton not speaking at Reagan’s funeral” nonsense:
Do you idiots actually think Clinton (or Carter) would actually step up to a mic and denounce Reagan at his own funeral?
This is a classic example of Clinton-hating on the Right being much stronger than any Reagan-hating I’ve seen in the last week.
Clinton is an eloquent speaker, who would read a well-prepared speech, that would represent the HALF of this country who aren’t Republicans. After all, Reagan was everybody’s President, not just you wingnuts.
After Dubya is halfway through screwing up his speech, you’ll be wishing it was Clinton up there speaking.
– Mr. Furious
We certainly have set a high bar, haven’t we? The qualifications for speaking at someone’s funeral now are only that the person won’t ‘step up to a mic’ and denounce them.
And hell, if we are choosing who will speak at the funeral based on who is the best public speaker, put me down for Jesse Jackson.
What is funny about this is that the funeral is about Reagan, not about partisan politics, and not about Clinton. Can’t you guys get it?
Bush will speak at the funeral because he is the current President. Clinton will not speak, because there is simply no reason for him to say anything? How hard is that to understand? I mean, if it bothers him that much, can’t he just stage his own press conference/memorial for reagan, ala the 2000 Inauguration?
Josh P.
Perhaps Clinton could best serve his party by dying, thus unifying the nation’s Democrats as Reagan has unified the Republicans. /sarcasm
John Y.
The GOP – fucking crooked lying hypocrites, every goddamn one of them. Including you, Cole.
Enjoy the campaign rally. Bush is going to lose anyway.
Rick
The miasma of Democratic Underground wafts into Balloon-Juice.
And I used to think FreeRepublic was extreme.
Cordially…
John Cole
That is just John Yuda, who I used to speak cordially with, until he dropped all pretense of being a moderate. You can watch him slowly ending the masquerade at Calpundit’s comment section about 2 years ago.
Rick
Sort of descended into Al Gore-type insanity, did he?
We right wingers are blessed in our enemies.
Cordially…
Dean
This is just bizarre.
Bush ’41 was Reagan’s VICE PRESIDENT. Bush ’43 is the CURRENT US President.
Are people really suggesting that somehow, b/c these people are speaking, that somehow Democrats are supposed to be speaking?
Having looked up who spoke at Nixon’s funeral, I’m truly bewildered. Clinton spoke because he was the SITTING PRESIDENT. Had Bush ’41 won in ’92, there would have been no Democrats on the speaker’s list at all.
Not everything is political, people. But tell ya what. If Patti Davis, the President’s daughter, speaks, will that mollify you??
ha
Nixon’s fueneral was not taxpayer funded. Shouldn’t honoring the former president, at our expense, be bi-partisan?
Anyways Ezra picked on you because of your really crappy Ken star analogy.
Dean-
Yep, Regan’s death has not been exploited by the GWB campiagn. Sending out emails “mourning” Reagan in order to get more traffic to the campiagn website, placing Regans mug right on the front page, nope not political at all, Dean.
shark
Videotape the Reagan ceremony. Then compare that with a tape of the Wellstone funeral rally.
Somehow I doubt you’ll see similarities.
Idiots
shark
Nixon’s fueneral was not taxpayer funded. Shouldn’t honoring the former president, at our expense, be bi-partisan
shark
And a final follow-up: why should we have a “bi-partisian” event, when we all know that the Dems and their side loathed Reagan and what he stood for? Do you want to cheapen yourselves by having your standard bearer read a speech full of platitudes he doesn’t even mean, and you don’t agree with?
Give me a break.
ha
Remember the Wellstone event was public (in a large basketball arena) and it was not the fueneral, which was private and no-doubt more dignified. Since the few boos that Trent Lot recieved (which were barely audiable on C-Span) were from ordinary people off the street the Dems are hardley responsiable for their conduct. One guy, Rick Kahn, crossed the line. His “We are going to win this election for Paul Wellstone” was not appropriate. All this doesn’t matter because the Bush campiagn and various pundits have already exploited Regans death for political gain.
Ricky
Interesting how “memorial service” is now “event”.
Nice try but you dishonest folks hurt more than you help.
HH
“Enjoy the campaign rally.”
Er, no, that was the LAST major memorial service for a politician…
HH
“Enjoy the campaign rally.”
Er, no, that was the LAST major memorial service for a politician (that wasn’t Strom)…
HH
ha, you ignorant slut… Kerry didn’t miss a beat putting Reagan into his campaign talking points (see “optimist”) and has a tribute on his site as well.
EH
The “optimist” thing has been around for a few weeks. Kerry is the one who decided to suspend campaigning, although I think the ad is still running because it’s not an attack.
Andrew | BYTE BACK
HH – RE: optimist – research your jackass statements.
Again I point to the inherent “you don’t know jack” sentiment, when you say this:
“I mean, if it bothers him that much, can’t he just stage his own press conference/memorial for reagan.”
No one is saying it’s bothering him but Drudge and those repeating Drudge.
You had a really good post about Reagan’s legacy soon after he died. Go look that up and aspire to that again. These posts are lame and are only showing me (and others) how the Clinton-hating seems to continue to flourish.
MunDane
Can someone who thinks that Clinton should speak please tell what his connection to Reagan is?
At Nixon’s funeral, Ford and Carter were both at the funeral/memorial and neither spoke. Ford was his VP, for pity’s sake!
I am sorry to disappoint Clinton in what is obviously an attempt to grab the public eye, again, but he does not belong on the speakers list.
Kimmitt
Isn’t Drudge still the only source for Clinton’s theoretical frustration?