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Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
Quote:Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Examiner Columnist
07/02/09 3:26 PM EDT
At Wednesday’s Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board meeting, chairman H.R. Crawford – a former District Council member and Marion Barry confidante – told fellow Board members that he has heard talk on Capitol Hill about yanking former President Ronald Reagan’s name off the local airport and returning it to its previous generic moniker: National Airport.
“It was just a discussion. We’re not aware of anything specific,” MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton later told The Examiner.
It’s clear that the current crop of congressional leaders want no part of Reagan’s grand conservative vision for America, but erasing all trace of his memory from an airport that’s already been named in his honor is about as petty as you can get.
Why would anybody on Capitol Hill even consider such a patently partisan move, which is guaranteed to make Democrats look small and ridiculous? Do they so fear the inevitable comparisons between the Great Communicator and his teleprompted successor in the White House?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinio...12322.html
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07-04-2009 12:30 PM |
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RE: Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
if they hold power long enough, this and much worse things will happen. They'll have Obama's face on Rushmore, where Reagans should be probably. Though Reagan hated the idea of such glorification.
They have Ronald Reagan statues all over Poland, I imagine Obama will have some in Venezuala and other Despots backyards.
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07-04-2009 12:33 PM |
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RE: Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
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When they steam the USS Ronald Reagan at Full Speed from out of the Atlantic to upon the White House Lawn, then maybe they will finally understand. (a little Charlie Daniels lingo there)
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RE: Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
(07-04-2009 12:30 PM)smn1256 Wrote: Quote:Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Examiner Columnist
07/02/09 3:26 PM EDT
At Wednesday’s Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board meeting, chairman H.R. Crawford – a former District Council member and Marion Barry confidante – told fellow Board members that he has heard talk on Capitol Hill about yanking former President Ronald Reagan’s name off the local airport and returning it to its previous generic moniker: National Airport.
“It was just a discussion. We’re not aware of anything specific,” MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton later told The Examiner.
It’s clear that the current crop of congressional leaders want no part of Reagan’s grand conservative vision for America, but erasing all trace of his memory from an airport that’s already been named in his honor is about as petty as you can get.
Why would anybody on Capitol Hill even consider such a patently partisan move, which is guaranteed to make Democrats look small and ridiculous? Do they so fear the inevitable comparisons between the Great Communicator and his teleprompted successor in the White House?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinio...12322.html
Good. It needs to come off.
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RE: Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
(07-04-2009 02:52 PM)RobertN Wrote: (07-04-2009 12:30 PM)smn1256 Wrote: Quote:Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Examiner Columnist
07/02/09 3:26 PM EDT
At Wednesday’s Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board meeting, chairman H.R. Crawford – a former District Council member and Marion Barry confidante – told fellow Board members that he has heard talk on Capitol Hill about yanking former President Ronald Reagan’s name off the local airport and returning it to its previous generic moniker: National Airport.
“It was just a discussion. We’re not aware of anything specific,” MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton later told The Examiner.
It’s clear that the current crop of congressional leaders want no part of Reagan’s grand conservative vision for America, but erasing all trace of his memory from an airport that’s already been named in his honor is about as petty as you can get.
Why would anybody on Capitol Hill even consider such a patently partisan move, which is guaranteed to make Democrats look small and ridiculous? Do they so fear the inevitable comparisons between the Great Communicator and his teleprompted successor in the White House?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinio...12322.html
Good. It needs to come off.
Bin Laden international isn't an option, so why do you care?
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RE: Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
(07-04-2009 02:52 PM)RobertN Wrote: (07-04-2009 12:30 PM)smn1256 Wrote: Quote:Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Examiner Columnist
07/02/09 3:26 PM EDT
At Wednesday’s Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board meeting, chairman H.R. Crawford – a former District Council member and Marion Barry confidante – told fellow Board members that he has heard talk on Capitol Hill about yanking former President Ronald Reagan’s name off the local airport and returning it to its previous generic moniker: National Airport.
“It was just a discussion. We’re not aware of anything specific,” MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton later told The Examiner.
It’s clear that the current crop of congressional leaders want no part of Reagan’s grand conservative vision for America, but erasing all trace of his memory from an airport that’s already been named in his honor is about as petty as you can get.
Why would anybody on Capitol Hill even consider such a patently partisan move, which is guaranteed to make Democrats look small and ridiculous? Do they so fear the inevitable comparisons between the Great Communicator and his teleprompted successor in the White House?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinio...12322.html
Good. It needs to come off.
Why do you post about things you know nothing about?
Oh that's right, you don't really know about anything.
Man it must suck to be you.
How's ****-cago?
(I'm just joshing you, I really don't care.)
(This post was last modified: 07-04-2009 04:23 PM by DrTorch.)
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RE: Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
(07-04-2009 04:22 PM)DrTorch Wrote: (07-04-2009 02:52 PM)RobertN Wrote: (07-04-2009 12:30 PM)smn1256 Wrote: Quote:Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Examiner Columnist
07/02/09 3:26 PM EDT
At Wednesday’s Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board meeting, chairman H.R. Crawford – a former District Council member and Marion Barry confidante – told fellow Board members that he has heard talk on Capitol Hill about yanking former President Ronald Reagan’s name off the local airport and returning it to its previous generic moniker: National Airport.
“It was just a discussion. We’re not aware of anything specific,” MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton later told The Examiner.
It’s clear that the current crop of congressional leaders want no part of Reagan’s grand conservative vision for America, but erasing all trace of his memory from an airport that’s already been named in his honor is about as petty as you can get.
Why would anybody on Capitol Hill even consider such a patently partisan move, which is guaranteed to make Democrats look small and ridiculous? Do they so fear the inevitable comparisons between the Great Communicator and his teleprompted successor in the White House?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinio...12322.html
Good. It needs to come off.
Why do you post about things you know nothing about?
Oh that's right, you don't really know about anything.
Man it must suck to be you.
How's ****-cago?
(I'm just joshing you, I really don't care.)
Sure the hell beats any place in Ohio.
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RE: Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
(07-04-2009 02:33 PM)Tripster Wrote: .
When they steam the USS Ronald Reagan at Full Speed from out of the Atlantic to upon the White House Lawn, then maybe they will finally understand. (a little Charlie Daniels lingo there)
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When I was on the Reagan last summer they printed a joke that went along the lines of this (couldn't find it, and didn't save a copy):
Attention all crew:
With the possibility of the election of Senator Obama to the White House, prepare yourselves to expect the following possible changes.
The USS Ronald Reagan will be ordered to turn hard left, and remain that course for the next four to eight years.
Additionally, the Reagan will be renamed the USS The Guy Who Denied President Carter Four More Years.
Finally, all requests by the USS John McCain to come alongside will be immediately denied.
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07-05-2009 12:57 AM |
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RE: Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
(07-05-2009 12:57 AM)T-Monay820 Wrote: (07-04-2009 02:33 PM)Tripster Wrote: .
When they steam the USS Ronald Reagan at Full Speed from out of the Atlantic to upon the White House Lawn, then maybe they will finally understand. (a little Charlie Daniels lingo there)
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When I was on the Reagan last summer they printed a joke that went along the lines of this (couldn't find it, and didn't save a copy):
Attention all crew:
With the possibility of the election of Senator Obama to the White House, prepare yourselves to expect the following possible changes.
The USS Ronald Reagan will be ordered to turn hard left, and remain that course for the next four to eight years.
Additionally, the Reagan will be renamed the USS The Guy Who Denied President Carter Four More Years.
Finally, all requests by the USS John McCain to come alongside will be immediately denied.
I love that one, but there is probably More Truth in it than Joke.
We will just have to see I guess.
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RE: Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
I can understand (and oftentimes agree with) the Dems' and liberals' antagonism toward GW Bush and the Limbaugh/O'Reilly crop.
But the antagonism toward Reagan is just perplexing, at best. And the posts I saw on places like Democratic Underground when he died were nothing less than distrubing.
I don't agree with everything a president does, probably never will. But on the domestic side of the ball... The economy was in an inflation-muddled funk when he took office and it respectively grew throughout the 80s. On social matters: He wasn't a big "bible thumper" and he was fairly tolerant on gay rights/issues.
On foreign policy, Reagan walked a difficult, delicate line most politicians cannot do. He was a tough-talking throwback and upped the arms race while at the same time sat down face-to-face with Gorbachev to negotiate (something unheard during the cold war aside from Nixon's visits to China). As "militaristic" people make Reagan out to be, not a shot was fired between the US/USSR during the tense 1980s. Countries were not invaded for "regime change", unless we count Grenada which is the size of a Div 1A football stadium. Qaddafi was taught a swift, quick lesson when he orchestrated terrorist attacks on an airliner and Berlin bar, and he's behaved ever since.
Overall, we went from a humliated 1970s post-Vietnam laughingstock to a respected worldwide leader of the 1980s free world, which I believe is the true reason many on the Left despise Reagan. And watching one Eastern European country after another swing from socialism to capitalism must've stung more than a few Che-adoring folks.
That's not to say Reagan didn't have his faults like all politicians did/do... federal spending increased (not decreased), covert shananigans in Central America, ramping up the misguided War on Drugs, etc. But the hate lobbed toward him by the Left is more "compliment" than anything else.
(This post was last modified: 07-05-2009 09:47 AM by Motown Bronco.)
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RE: Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
(07-05-2009 09:42 AM)Motown Bronco Wrote: I can understand (and oftentimes agree with) the Dems' and liberals' antagonism toward GW Bush and the Limbaugh/O'Reilly crop.
But the antagonism toward Reagan is just perplexing, at best. And the posts I saw on places like Democratic Underground when he died were nothing less than distrubing.
I don't agree with everything a president does, probably never will. But on the domestic side of the ball... The economy was in an inflation-muddled funk when he took office and it respectively grew throughout the 80s. On social matters: He wasn't a big "bible thumper" and he was fairly tolerant on gay rights/issues.
On foreign policy, Reagan walked a difficult, delicate line most politicians cannot do. He was a tough-talking throwback and upped the arms race while at the same time sat down face-to-face with Gorbachev to negotiate (something unheard during the cold war aside from Nixon's visits to China). As "militaristic" people make Reagan out to be, not a shot was fired between the US/USSR during the tense 1980s. Countries were not invaded for "regime change", unless we count Grenada which is the size of a Div 1A football stadium. Qaddafi was taught a swift, quick lesson when he orchestrated terrorist attacks on an airliner and Berlin bar, and he's behaved ever since.
Overall, we went from a humliated 1970s post-Vietnam laughingstock to a respected worldwide leader of the 1980s free world, which I believe is the true reason many on the Left despise Reagan. And watching one Eastern European country after another swing from socialism to capitalism must've stung more than a few Che-adoring folks.
That's not to say Reagan didn't have his faults like all politicians did/do... federal spending increased (not decreased), covert shananigans in Central America, ramping up the misguided War on Drugs, etc. But the hate lobbed toward him by the Left is more "compliment" than anything else.
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RE: Now they want Reagan's name off the airport
Maybe they want Boxer, Murtha, Pelosi, Dodd, Reid or OMFG Obama as it's new name
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