Washington Post's disparaging remarks of Nancy Reagan

Seems a bit hyperbolic

 

Come on, those controversies have been written about for decades and any writer is going to come across them. Here is another balanced obituary http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/u...d-influential-first-lady-dies-at-94.html?_r=0. There are others.

It is not necessary to whitewash someone who has died. Every public figure has controversies and they will be written about because people want to know about their lives, not just the superlatives. Justice Scalia died and his controversies were mentioned prominently with his many virtues. Hillary Clinton will die someday and they will write about her virtues and her faults, too. Will you pillory the newspapers then?

 

I was thinking that if this was M Obama no one would've noticed a rub here and a rub there.

 

and I will be a very happy man.

Unfortunately not quite soon enough.

They could toss her rotting carcass out into the desert and the buzzards wouldn't even look twice.

 

wished we lived in a world where there was at least a day of respecting someone's passing

 

That world died a long long time ago my friend. There is little if any respect for anything anymore. I'm actually glad that my grandfather isn't alive to see what we have become.

 

I agree. Mrs. Reagan did not deserve an obituary that was couched around alleged controversies. She has passed. What is the point in even mentioning what were partisan issues? By most accounts, she was a devoted wife, mother, and public servant. That's all that matters IMO.

 

My dad, who fought in WWII would agree