It's odd, but even though most friends of mine dislike him for his policy, we're all a bit sad b/c of this. I mean, any death is of course sad, but I have to admit that some of my earliest memories as a child are of Reagan giving a speech about something or another.
Simply politically speaking, he was the yin to FDR's yang. Those two men are human representations of what direction "the great debate" took in the 20th Century. They both created electoral coalitions that transcended the typical party allegiances, and won big b/c of it.
Oh well. I think it'd be fair to hold off Reagan bashing for at least a week or two.
