The Great Communicator Remembered

More on Reagan's death:

Actor Danny Glover shows his hatred:

"We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for the move steadily to the right happened with the Reagan administration. People want to elevate him to some mythic level; they have their own reason for doing that."

Steyn:

“The Great Communicator” was effective because what he was communicating was self-evident to all but our dessicated elites: “We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around.” And at the end of a grim, grey decade - Vietnam, Watergate, energy crises, Iranian hostages – Americans decided they wanted a President who looked like the nation, not like its failed government. Thanks to his clarity, around the world, governments that had nations have been replaced by nations that have governments. Most of the Warsaw Pact countries are now members of Nato, with free markets and freely elected parliaments.

Maggie Thatcher:

"To have achieved so much against so many odds and with such humor and humanity made Ronald Reagan a truly great American hero."

and:

"Ronald Reagan had a higher claim than any other leader to have won the Cold War for liberty and he did it without a shot being fired" - Baroness Thatcher

Pravda has nothing, of course.

And the Guardian, true to form, can't even start a eulogy without taking a whack:

Ronald Reagan was one of the most controversial Presidents in the modern United States but his slow death from a terrible brain disease united Americans in a sense of pity.
Even his most ardent opponents, who said he represented the greed and selfishness of the Eighties, were moved by his plight as Alzheimer's steadily ate away at his mind.

By the end he did not even recognise his own wife and former first lady, Nancy. It was a tragic image: the man who once held the fate of the entire world in his hands, reduced to a mere husk.