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Obama’s Reagan Revolution

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Daniel Nichanian
Le Capitaine des Pompiers
Published Tuesday, January 22, 2008
In the run up to the Nevada caucuses, Barack Obama offered disaffected progressives unsure of where to turn in the Democratic primary yet another reason to distrust him. Speaking to the editorial board of the Reno Gazette, the Illinois senator compared himself to Ronald Reagan, explaining that he thought “Reagan changed the trajectory of America… He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it.”
#1 By (Anonymous) 4:54pm on January 24, 2008

This is the most uninformed, misleading, shallow myopic piece of mud I have ever read in the Yale Daily News. I am disappointed that you would fail to recognize that no Democratic presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter has won a majority of the vote, yet you think the same old crap will work. Barack recognizes the need for values based campaigning and Reagan works as a rhetorical prototype not an ideological one.

#2 By (Anonymous) 2:22am on January 26, 2008

I think the columnist’s use of paraphrasing is misleading.

For the full Obama quote, see: http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/clinton-obama_slugfest.html

Conjecturing about what Obama’s comments on Reagan suggest about Obama’s own views seems a bit silly when we can simply review Obama’s actual proposals.

In its endorsement of Obama, The Crimson provides a good summary of some of the things that Obama does support: http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521585

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