by El Zorro Viejo (aka; Jim)

So, Ronald Reagan has finally cast loose these mortal coils. It's not as if this was not both expected and, truth be known, hoped for. The man has been a virtual veggie for at least a year or longer. If anything, we should have said good-bye to the Gipper a couple years ago. Hell, if this ever happens to me, I want my family and friends to say good-bye to me as soon as I don't recognize any of 'em...then put me on that ice floe and let be float out towards the setting sun.

When he was alive and President, I wasn't one of his fans. After he left office, I respected him as an elder statesman, but I was still not a particular fan of his. When it was announced that he had Alzheimer's, I felt compassion for him, but, just because life was dealing him a really shitty hand, I didn't change my mind about either his Presidency nor his continuing political agenda. Now that he is dead, let us honor him as is his due as a former president, and then let us get on with defeating his erstwhile protege, George Bush.

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