Andrew Sullivan: President Obama: The Democrats' Ronald Reagan

[Kber]

"Just as Reagan became an icon only in his second term, Obama needs four more years to entrench and build upon the large, unfinished strides in his first term. That’s why, if you backed Obama in 2008, as a liberal wanting change, as an independent wanting pragmatic solution-seeking, or as a conservative hoping to drag the GOP back from Palin-style insanity, it makes no sense to bail on him now. Because this is when the payoff of the long game really kicks in, when stronger economic growth will put a wind at the president’s back, when a bipartisan deal on debt could lift business confidence and accelerate recovery, when universal health-care reform becomes irreversible and health-care spending is slowed, when the last soldier leaves Afghanistan, when millions of illegal immigrants can come out of the shadows and help build the next economy, and when the spiraling emotions of religious warfare can be calmed, managed, and handled, rather than intensified, polarized, and spread more widely.


This was always Obama’s promise. He has not betrayed it. And we—yes, we—-deserve a chance to fulfill it."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/09/23/andrew-sullivan-on-the-promise-of-obama-s-second-term.html

[Politicalboi]

2. Raygun is a false icon

I would NEVER compare Obama to Raygun. Raygun was Poppy Bush's puppet and he did what Poppy and the bankers told him. Fuck Raygun.