Am I seeing the Reagan comments wrong or what do you think

[Alamom]

I intended to post something similar to this here first ...I got a little upset and posted to the OP "Hillary should be kicked out of the Party".

Is this not the upmost in fodder for the other side, the (R)'s?



Obama has given the repukes THE talking point for decades & they won't forget it.


It will be used over & over for years to come.


One of the frontrunners for the presidency from the Democratic Party said this and it was heard & seen around the world.


Reagan tapped into what the people wanted.


"I don't want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what is different is the times. I do think that, for example, the 1980 election 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. They felt like with all the excesses of the 60s and the 70s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think he tapped into what people were already feeling. Which is we want clarity, we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing." - Obama


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/16/obama-compares-himself-to_n_81835.html

Word for word on the tape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaoYD7iZG9w


In trying to build himself up or some kind of comparison to Ronald Reagan regarding change and moving away from the 60's & 70's, he also declared that *Bill Clinton, could not or did not do what Ronald Reagan did.

(*our only 2 term DEM president since FDR, about 60 years)

I've seen this explained away many times as not being what it looks like it is or people saying they didn't see any comparisons being made. It's not what "we" think. It's what the Repukes make of it and it's enough to damn democratic candidates for years in favor of a Reagan-like Replacement. I can already hear it, a Democratic presidential hopeful said it as he was dissing one of our best, Reagan must have been the greatest president ever. Just what we need again to get this country on track.
Watch for it. The Dem nominee will get hit with it from now on.

This statement during this presidential campaign by Obama towers over anything & everything HRC has said.

[libbygurl]

1. Yep, and many O supporters defended it on DU, too. (OU?)

I see all this Reagan talk as a coded message to the Republicans.

I am still awfully suspicious about O's authenticity as a Dem. Call me tinfoil-hatted, but the meeting with Rove after 04 convention still rankles with me. (After that already empty-sounding speech he gave at the convention, which the wonderful media oohed and ahhed over afterwards. He struck me as a fake back then.)