Ronald Reagan was 93 when he died. In an obituary, perhaps one should start by saying something kind. He was tall and he had good hair. As an actor I didn't care for his style and as a president from day one he was despised by many (his first act--freeze federal employeee hiring--as a federal employee, I was directly impacted by his acting on his rhetoric). He twitched around federal health benefits to suit his own political positions (no abortions were paid for on his watch), and he allowed carpetbaggers to raid the federal savings and loans, along with many other atrocities.

Let's hope the silly nostalgic conservative knee-jerk responses to his death are short-lived and don't give Dubya any kind of bounce for his equally destructive policies.