Obama is the ANTI - REAGAN

[denem]

I posted this OP a few days ago. The words did not come from me but from Freepers panicking about Obama's. 'we'll lose in a landsile - better concentrate on the house' 'so likeable - wish he was a Republican or Independent' - the fear of losing the political debate was palpable.

I not am repeating this to further the Clinton v Obama debate. Obama said the elections of Nixon and Clinton did not usher in a paradigm shift in American politics. It is essential to understand why Reagan, not Clinton transformed the political landscape.

Reagan drove home the mantra that Democrats were tax and spend. He did so by tax cutting and big spending, putting federal finances on the path to bankruptcy, and the economy the road to ruin.

Tax increases and spending cuts are politically unpopular. This is Reagan Republican strategy whether they know it or not. Bankrupt federal finances and leave it to the Democrats to have to take the politically unpopular measures necessary to avert insolvency

That's what Bill Clinton did. He took the tough and essential steps to make America solvent. And he had to. The Republicans had seen to that. Down cames Newt's mousetrap in 1994 and it was only Bill's supreme political skills that kept the Republicans from tax cutting and spending away the nations finances again in 1997 rather than 2001.

Obama wants to shift the shift the political paradigm. He has a good shot at it. But once again federal finances and the economy are on the road to ruin.

Unless Democrats can hammer home the message that the Republican policy is to max out National Credit Card, the Reagan Revolution will continue. Obama is glossing over economics at the moment. If he is the nominee, he cannot afford to do so, because he will be taking over the Presidency at a time when the economic chickens are coming home to roost.

Hillary is being more specific, in her campaign. Her policies are maliciously costed. She has learnt the lessons of 1993-94. Obama, ignores them to his peril

[physioex]

1. Come on Raygun....

Was a traitor before day one having sold WMDs to a terrorist nation in exchange from hostages. And what did he leave us: a huge debt, and the taliban.....


He brain was long gone before he took office he just kept acting the whole time....

[killbotfactory]

2. You can't discuss why you think Reagan won

People will automatically think you are promoting Reagan in some way, like the post above shows.

[jackson_dem]

3. Obama agrees with Reagan on "big guvmit"

Pages 156-157

"The conservative revolution Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight--that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing he pie--contained a good deal of truth."

He makes the argument the DLC made about the size, role of government. When people talk of expanding the pie rather than slicing it they are using smokescreens for talking about cutting back on social programs.

[denem]

4. Inefficent Wasteful government spending doesn't benefit anyone

Surely you don't disagree with that? Bill Clinton had to use those saving to pay off a maxed out national credit card.