Obama talks of Reagan and Republicans

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I don't want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what's different are the times. I do think that for example the 1980 was different.
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.

I think Kennedy, twenty years earlier, moved the country in a fundamentally different direction. So I think a lot of it just has to do with the times.

I think we're in one of those times right now. Where people feel like things as they are going aren't working. We're bogged down in the same arguments that we've been having, and they're not useful.

And, you know, the Republican approach, I think, has played itself out.

I think it's fair to say the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last ten, fifteen years, in the sense that they were challenging conventional wisdom.

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[vechorik]

The Debt Ceiling under President Reagan was raised eighteen times to a total of $1.85 trillion (See Table 7.3). This is less than the $3 trillion-plus already raised under President Obama! Raising the Ceiling 18 times during the eight Reagan years meant a Ceiling battle every 5.3 months (on average), with an average rise of only $102 billion per increase. So… does Obama really want to get the Reagan Treatment?

[crosswalkernie]

The US will never elect a Mormon. Not going to happen.

[crosswalkernie]

Did you just call Jesus a pecker breath retard?

[newyorkeastside]

obama still doesn't realize he is a temporary stwart to lead our country not to change american to his likeness....the messiah is a pecker breath retard

[newyorkeastside]

romney will beat obama in the 20012 election...obama is a pecker breath

[hellspit2003]

a great man. obama 08

[moolaroo]

Bring folks along on your "coat-tails"....c'mon barack, you're not "bringing" people in, you're buying them...you gave ACORN $832,000 to go out and "bring" people in....and you're #1 contributor GOLDMAN SACHS has ties to the timing of the current economic downturn - they have given "you" nearly $1,000,000 and in turn your "economic advisor" Warren Buffett gave "them" $5 Billion. YOU ARE NOT THE CANDIDATE OF GOOD IDEAS- YOU ARE THE CANDIDATE OF CASH!

[starone091705]

OBAMA 08'

[peter206]

GOBAMA