Tell me how you really feel.

[raybear]

People magazine called me for a quote on Reagan's death. "I wish he had died before he was elected" is what I told them. I wonder what they will run.

--- Larry Kramer

Comments

damn.

[louche.livejournal.com]

no mincing words there. ooof. i was just thinking about how i hadn't heard anything negative about him so far. i was listening to NPR reporting on the funeral this morning -- the tens of thousands of people who drove hours and waited hours more -- and i thought, wow, how interesting that there has been no report of anyone protesting. i mean, had it been a major left wing politician, you know that all the conservative whackos would've been out with their anti-abortion signs and whatever.

i personally don't know that i'd go as far to wish him dead. but maybe. it just feels wrong. i mean, the guy suffered for 10 years in the end. karma? and is that enough for what he did in his life?

Re: damn.

[dykestar.livejournal.com]

yeah I'm sorry but thousands of AIDS patients suffered and died because of him (and that's just one of the many many really-wrong things he did). While I wouldn't go so far as to have a party about him being dead, I'm certainly not sorry for him or what he suffered through. That was not even 1/10th of the pain he caused others.

Re: damn.

[louche.livejournal.com]

oh, i know. i have no pity for him. i'm just trying to get in touch with my inner buddha, you know? as much as i would have liked to do all sorts of evil things like dance on his grave and shit like that, i am trying to take the higher road. you know. be better than him.

also, i should have mentioned that i don't have the guts to say something like larry kramer said. it just struck me.