So this week, to commemorate 100 years since his birth, a statue of Ronald Reagan was unveiled in London.
I'm too young to have been around when he was President, but I'm intrigued by the perhaps predictable contrasting views on this from Liberal Conspiracy and Cranmer. It is, of course, easily explained. Those that decide he was not respected on these shores (and drag up memories - good ones! - of Spitting Image), ignore the many good things he must have done (heck, even the Guardian writer linked above, is positive about Reagan).
Yet those that venerate him (Cranmer - and I'm not sure what a "Christian" minister is doing venerating any fallen, sinful human being to the extent Cranmer does with anyone on the right of the political spectrum) ignore the bad things (see the cocaine related stuff to do with Nicaragua in the Liberal Conspiracy post.
I guess blogs that just take neutral and balanced views go unnoticed...?
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