My parents are coming to visit me in LA. My dad wants to go to the Reagan library.

[Cant trust em]

He's not really political, certainly not a republican. He probably thinks that since I had a great time at the Kennedy library then I'd probably like the Reagan library too.

My Dad is very well meaning, but I'll have to connive a way out of this.

:puke: :puke:

[MadMaddie]

1. Take a barf bag...

[femmocrat]

2. How about Disneyland instead?

It too has a Fantasy Land! ;)

Good luck!

[rurallib]

3. We got the Hoover Library just up the street

We go up about once a year just for the history.
I do understand St. Ronnie is different, though.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I would just tell him the truth!

[LoZoccolo]

5. Why wouldn't you want to go?

There's like, all the unclassified documents of the administration there. There might actually be a document that reveals some wrongdoing on their part in those walls.

I went to the Gerald R. Ford library back in the nineties and looked up some documents from the 1976 re-election campaign and it was hilarious. If I remember correctly, the campaign made these ads where they would show people on the street talking about what they thought of the administration or some political issue or something, and some voice-over would say something condescending about how they were wrong or that they should have thought before saying something that uninformed. Then the campaign had someone from an ad agency review it before it aired and the person from the ad agency chewed them out for talking down to people. I held the actual documents in my hands! The people involved probably didn't anticipate me reading it and having a laugh about it, and almost definately didn't anticipate someone talking about it on a worldwide computer network like thirty-five years later. There's probably all sorts of neat stuff there. I'd love to live near a presidential library and be able to go through documents.

[MikeW]

6. one sided history isnt history at all ... go and experience it even if you disagreed politically

[Iris]

9. +1000

Don't be like the other guys!

[Turbineguy]

7. Don't use

the toilet at home. Wait until you get there.

Besides, Reagan did say a few funny things.

[riderinthestorm]

8. Why do you think you have to go with him? Can't you just be up front?

Tell him you don't want to support that museum with any funds, not even an entry fee (not to mention any time wasted in there). Tell him you aren't into Rethug propaganda. If it were my parents (my mom would definitely want to go, my dad would never ask - obviously they are divorced!), I'd simply tell them I'd be happy to drive them there but no way would that museum receive support or any kind of donation from me, so just arrange a pick-up time and enjoy your free hours.

[catchnrelease]

10. While I wouldn't go myself

I know a couple of people that have gone and said that the tour of Air Force One is worth seeing. I thought it was a replica, but it is apparently the actual plane used by several presidents. (Just be sure to take a barf bag with you!)

[Dash87]

11. Why not go?

At least it's a day out with your parents.

I'm being 100% serious. If I had a chance to go somewhere with my parents, even if it was the Rush Limbaugh museum of fine art, I would still go. It's the company that counts, not the place.

[Hugabear]

18. Rush Limbaugh Museum of Fine Art

Now that might be something to see, as long as I didn't have to pay for it. Would be very interesting to see what would be considered "fine art".

[Booster]

12. Take him. It might be really interesting; been meaning to go too.

[jmowreader]

13. Every good Democrat should go to the Reagan library

Just like Ozzy Osbourne went to the Alamo in 1982...

[Hugabear]

14. Didn't you hear? The Reagan Library burned down a few months ago

It was horrible. Both books were lost.

[slackmaster]

15. I wouldn't turn down an opportunity to visit any Presidential library

Especially if someone pays my way.

You won't get brainwashed or catch cooties, and you might learn something.

[hatrack]

16. (Sound of head hitting desk . . . )

My condolences . . .

[martymar64]

17. Go dance on Raygun's grave and get some video of it!

[devilgrrl]

19. Take him to the Nixon place instead

Very interesting, no matter what you think of Nixon.

[Hawaii Hiker]

30. They just added the new Watergate exhibit at the Nixon

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0401-watergate-nixon-20110401,0,7068701.story

As far as the Reagan library, i despised the man, but his library is worth seeing to get to walk thru an Air Force 1 (used by Carter & Clinton to) as well as old limos used by presidents...And the cafe was ok to...

[mulsh]

20. Be sure to let him know there's an admission fee

18- 61 $12.00, 62+ $9.00.

one of my ambitions is to be arrested for pissing on ST. Ronnie's grave. Unfortunately there's no way I'd pay any admission fee to any Presidential Library but especially not his.

[LiberalFighter]

26. Tour is self-guided and can expect to last 2 1/2 to 3 hours.

Minimum cost for lunch per person is $12.95

Cab is maybe 40 - 50 round trip

[in_cog_ni_to]

21. Just say, "I do not want to go to the Reagan Library. Let's go have our teeth pulled instead!"

That would be more fun. NO WAY would I go there, but that's just me. I am TRULY repulsed by repukes. DETEST THEM.....especially detest Trickle Down Economics/Iran Contra Ronnie. If you want to learn something about Ronnie...go to a REAL Library.

[Maru Kitteh]

22. If it's possible, I'd suggest tactful, polite, honesty. Try simply saying:

"I'm not really interested in the RR library Dad. Is there something else you'd like to do?"

You must have dozens of museums and the like you could go to instead.

Good luck. Enjoy your Dad. I'd love to have mine here. I'd even go to the RR museum with him. :-(

[Motown_Johnny]

23. I would just give him a comic book and call it even

[david13]

24. I hate to say it to you, but just take a tip from Nancy: Just Say No.

It is somewhat comical, tho', I think, if I understand you correctly. He thinks you just like libraries?
dc

[Arugula Latte]

25. Why don't you just tell him

"I really dislike what Reagan did to this country and here is why:..." Then tick off five or six stark facts. The hard part will be narrowing down what to say.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

27. I would go just to check out the Air Force One exhibit. But I'm crazy about airplanes.

[EFerrari]

28. It might be worth the price of admission to see how that old felon

has been rewritten.

[HEyHEY]

29. I went to the Hanoi Hilton in Vietnam, that doesn't mean I support Ho Chi Mihn

[Beaverhausen]

31. There is an old Air Force One there- I think it would be worth it

I went years ago and just laughed at the crap about how godlike he was. But there is some cool stuff there.

[SoCalDem]

32. Bus tour.buy him a ticket & send him on his way

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