Reply #13: How have you dealt with the issue of Obama's views on Reagan

[JDPriestly]

and the "excesses of the '60s and '70s." I need some clarification from him, especially on exactly what conduct did he think was excessive in the '60s and '70s. Did he think Carter's peace initiative for Israel was excessive? How about Carter's environmental programs? Or maybe it was the attempt to impeach Nixon? Did he think that was excessive? Maybe he thought the peace protests were excessive? The War on Poverty? Establishing relations with China? Just what was so excessive about the '60s and '70s that Reagan was a response to?

I do not see how Reagan could have been a response to the assassinations of MLK, RFK, JFK, Medgar Evers and all the other liberals who were assassinated during those years. What in the world was Obama thinking when he said that?

If you are young and did not live through the lies of the Republicans in those years and the lies that got Reagan elected, then I can understand that you are switching to Obama. But, having lived through that time, it seems to me that Reagan's election made things worse, that he continued and expanded on the Republican excesses, the dirty tricks in politics, the lying and cheating that marked the Republican Party (and the right wing of the Democratic Party) during those years.

I will not back Obama until he defines very clearly what he was referring to when he spoke about the "excesses of the '60s and '70s." Did he mean welfare? Because if he did I won't back him either.