Letters to the Editor
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Try this quote on for size
"I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn’t much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think people, he just tapped into what people were already feeling, which was we want clarity we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing."
OK, so Obama did not specifically say that the Reagan had good ideas, but this clealy implies it. Dynamism and entrpreneurship? If he really thought Reagan's ideas were bad, why would he not have said it? Reagan's policies were disastrous and in direct opposition to what the Democratic Party stands for. To bring these policies up in a positive context and not say that you think they were wrong, that they did great damage to our country is bizarre. Obama deserved to be severely criticized for his statements. The deification of Reagan and his policies by the right wing spin machine should not be aided by any Democrat, explicitly or implicitly.