Obama to echo Clinton, Reagan, JFK

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Obama to echo Clinton, Reagan, JFK
By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 8/27/08 6:17 PM EST

Barack Obama is drawing inspiration for his acceptance speech Thursday night from three past convention speeches: those of Bill Clinton in 1992, Ronald Reagan in 1980 and John F. Kennedy in 1960, chief strategist David Axelrod said today aboard the campaign plane from Billings, Mont., to Denver.

"The speech is substantially written, but as with all Obama speeches he will be refining it and buffing it up right to the end," Axelrod said.

Obama could visit Invesco Field at Mile High tonight to do a walk-through of the site and will practice the speech through tomorrow. He arrived in Denver at 3 p.m. local time.

Obama began thinking about the speech before he left for vacation in Hawaii and has been working it intermittently ever since, Axelrod said, sometimes with speechwriters, other times alone in a Chicago hotel room. He writes longhand on a legal pad, types his notes into a computer and circulates drafts among his staff.

"He is going to make a case about the choices that people face," Axelrod said, when asked how much Obama would go after McCain. "He is going to make a respectful argument, but I don't think he will shy away from making those contrasts where they are appropriate."

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[Larkspur]

1. My mother and I despised Reagan

She called Reagan a B-rated actor and a B-rated President. Reagan was one of the worse President in US history until W took that role.

[shifting_sands]

2. ha

Your mother must have known my father, that's what he said and he said "by the time Reagan's administration is over, the divisions in this country won't be between the races, or genders, but between the haves and have nots." He abhorred Ronald Reagan and said he was exhibiting signs of dementia when his second term began. he couldn't understand why people didn't see it. He ranted about Reagan every day of his presidency and long after my father died, I found myself ranting about GWB the same way. I was glad he had not lived to see what had happened to this country since 1980 to the present