Originally posted by Grantref
This isn't a forum of mourning, not a wake or a memorial. It's a web forum for political discussion, and political discussions get, well, political.
This particular thread was obviously not started to debate these sorts of things. It is in the political section because he is a political figure. It would have been better to start a seperate thread. I know when I pulled up the thread I really didn't expect or want to read negative things about Reagan. It is typically considered rude to speak ill of the recently departed, but it is even more so to do it among those trying to focus on the positive things.