Posted on 07/19/2008 8:54:30 PM PDT by FocusNexus
It could have been a coincidence when Barack Obama gave a major policy speech last week at a building named after former President Ronald Reagan. But it comes from the same campaign that until yesterday had pushed to hold a major foreign policy address at the Brandenburg Gate, where Ronald Reagan in 1987 famously demanded of his Soviet counterpart, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
During his bid for the presidency, Obama has repeatedly praised the political gifts of Reagan, the modern president most revered by Republicans, and whose policies are still held in contempt by many leading liberals.
A year ago Obama compared Reagan favorably to President Bush in a primary debate while defending his pledge to meet directly with the leaders of hostile nations without preconditions. "Ronald Reagan called [Russia] an evil empire," said Obama, but he also "spoke to the Soviet Union."
In January, Obama came under fire from within his party after casting himself as an emotive heir to Reagan. "Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America," Obama told a Nevada newspaper in January, noting that Reagan "tapped into what people were already feeling, which is: We want clarity, we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing."
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Sorry, Mr. Obama, you are not only no Reagan, you are the antithesis of Ronald Reagan and everything he stood for.
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I can imagine Obama’s speech. “Mr. Putin, rebuild the wall.”
I can imagine Obama’s speech. “Mr. Putin, rebuild the wall.”
LOL.
That or surrender to the communists, and that’s why there won’t be a need for a wall, we’ll all be “comrades”.
He has no policies, no spine on principle, and the world will walk all over him in less than two years.
Obama could not even be a pimple on Reagans Butt.
Growing up, Obama writes in his books about himself that he was stoned his last two years of High School. Later, he was a community organizer for the corrupt vote-fraud group ACORN.
In contrast, Reagan in his youth was a life guard at a perilous water area...where he *personally* saved more than 1,000 drowning swimmers...one at a time...over his years of service there.
These are life-shaping experiences. Which experience would the general public expect to best shape a leader?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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