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Originally posted by Ideal08
How is this any different from what Russ Parr and his cronies said the other day? I don't understand why there are certain things people are not allowed to have opinions about.  Now, just because the man is dead, people have to hold in "negative" opinions? I love how freedom of speech only works when speaking in favor of the status quo. A lot of what this kid said is the truth. But that all gets swept under the rug because it's seen as being in bad taste? When do people get to talk about all the jacked up stuff that this man did? How long does he have to be dead before it's talked about? Or is it protocol that after someone dies, you don't say anything negative about them? Does death erase wrong doings? Maybe I'm in a bad mood today, but WHO CARES??
SO WHAT? 
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I think what you were seeing was/is political civility. While history will have plenty of time to lay out its case for/against Mr. Reagan, it was just nice to refrain from all of that till they buried him. It's kind of like (at least it used to be in the south from what I'm told) when a funeral procession went by you stopped --whether you were in the procession or not.
This "procession" just went on a week nationally and was carried by CNN, et.al. The thing that mesmerized me was the military percision, especially that sort of half walk, have gait thing that the soldiers had when approaching/leaving the coffin. That was tight. Dude's riderless boots on the horse was touching, as well.
I also thought his son's remarks at the California burial service were particularly poignant, leaving aside political opinions about the man. Like it or not, elements of it were political stagecraft writ large.