Like him or not he was a very popular President. He also may be the last in the near future who was able to pull voters across party lines. All Presidents deserve the same treatment. I despised most of Clinton policies yet he was popular and elected twice so he would be deserving of the same honors. Like all funerals you are not only burying the person but all grudges you held against them. Stopping the government for one day can be argued to have boosted the private sector as they had a day without the burdens of government being inflicted on them.
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