Anonymous
Post 02/29/2012 22:28     Subject: Re:Do you call it "Reagan" or "National"?
National and BWI
Republican
11 years in the area
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2012 22:24     Subject: Re:Do you call it "Reagan" or "National"?
National and BWI

Democrat

Lived here all my 39 years.

If something had to be named after Reagan, the building downtown would have been find. The airport, as a PP pointed out, is the height of irony.


Anonymous
Post 02/29/2012 22:19     Subject: Do you call it "Reagan" or "National"?
hell, I still say the Patriot Center.
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2012 22:14     Subject: Re:Do you call it "Reagan" or "National"?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: It has nothing to do with disliking Reagan (although I do) and everything to do with the fact that I don't recognize the right of a Congress, in which I have no elected voting representative, to rename my city's airport and force my city to spend significant resources on changing metro signs etc . . . I particularly object because there's no history of the federal government doing this in any are in which the citizens do have voting rights.


If "your city" is Washington, DC, the airport isn't in the city -- it's in Virginia. And the federal government once completely controlled the airport until it ceded control to an intergovernmental body that includes the federal government, VA and DC. This has nothing whatsoever to do with DC voting rights.

Being somewhat set in my ways, I still call it "Nationial" but "Reagan" doesn't bother me. It's a heckuva lot easier to say than BWI Thurgood Mouthful Airport.


What other cities had their airports under complete federal control? How does this have nothing to do with DC's rights?
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2012 22:00     Subject: Do you call it "Reagan" or "National"?
Anonymous wrote:National and Marshall!


Oops And dem all life so 19 years 10 months and 22 days.
I thought it was racist the way it was named regan national but BWI Marshall.
So it's National and Marshall.

Yes I order small , medium, and large at Starbucks
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2012 21:57     Subject: Do you call it "Reagan" or "National"?
National and Marshall!
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2012 21:50     Subject: Do you call it "Reagan" or "National"?
National or DCA
BWI
Dem. 6 years
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2012 21:28     Subject: Re:Do you call it "Reagan" or "National"?
Anonymous wrote:16 years in DC/Arlington, lifelong Democrat and I say National, sometimes DCA, and BWI

I REFUSE to call National Ronald Reagan Int'l Airport...can barely type it.


Anonymous
Post 02/29/2012 21:26     Subject: Re:Do you call it "Reagan" or "National"?
16 years in DC/Arlington, lifelong Democrat and I say National, sometimes DCA, and BWI

I REFUSE to call National Ronald Reagan Int'l Airport...can barely type it.
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2012 21:23     Subject: Do you call it "Reagan" or "National"?
Anonymous wrote:National and BWI

Unaffiliated

Lived here my whole life.


On another note....I still call the Verizon center the Cap Center every once in a while. Yes, I know they are in two totally different locations.


I call the Verizon Center the MCI Center all of the time. Not quite as old time as Cap Center, but . . . .

And I call the airport National, of course.
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2012 20:56     Subject: Re:Do you call it "Reagan" or "National"?
Anonymous wrote:National or DCA; BWI
Dem
12 years


Same for me.
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2012 20:50     Subject: Re:Do you call it "Reagan" or "National"?
I kind of like the new statue of Regan at the entrance to the airport. It's as if the Gipper's greeting frequent flyers: "Now, there you go again!"
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2012 20:45     Subject: Re:Do you call it "Reagan" or "National"?
Reagan National or DCA
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2012 20:43     Subject: Re:Do you call it "Reagan" or "National"?
Anonymous wrote: It has nothing to do with disliking Reagan (although I do) and everything to do with the fact that I don't recognize the right of a Congress, in which I have no elected voting representative, to rename my city's airport and force my city to spend significant resources on changing metro signs etc . . . I particularly object because there's no history of the federal government doing this in any are in which the citizens do have voting rights.


If "your city" is Washington, DC, the airport isn't in the city -- it's in Virginia. And the federal government once completely controlled the airport until it ceded control to an intergovernmental body that includes the federal government, VA and DC. This has nothing whatsoever to do with DC voting rights.

Being somewhat set in my ways, I still call it "Nationial" but "Reagan" doesn't bother me. It's a heckuva lot easier to say than BWI Thurgood Mouthful Airport.
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2012 20:37     Subject: Re:Do you call it "Reagan" or "National"?
Anonymous wrote:Naming an airport after the guy who fired the air traffic controllers is the height of irony.


I'm a proud Democrat, but will say emphatically that the controllers deserved to be fired. The historical record shows that as head of the SAG, Reagan was a strong union man in his day. You can blame Reagan for a lot of mistakes -- and I do -- but firing the air controllers is not one of them.