Comments on: Obama Compares self to Reagan: Suicide or Smart? http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2008/01/23/obama-compares-to-regan-suicide-or-smart/ Free Minds, Free Markets, Free Booze Mon, 12 May 2008 05:07:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: A Concerned Libertarian http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2008/01/23/obama-compares-to-regan-suicide-or-smart/#comment-97274 A Concerned Libertarian Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:39:19 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2008/01/23/obama-compares-to-regan-suicide-or-smart/#comment-97274 Better yet, make sure that your girlfriend drinks so she can stand to look at you... Better yet, make sure that your girlfriend drinks so she can stand to look at you…

]]> By: A Concerned Libertarian http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2008/01/23/obama-compares-to-regan-suicide-or-smart/#comment-97273 A Concerned Libertarian Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:38:54 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2008/01/23/obama-compares-to-regan-suicide-or-smart/#comment-97273 Ted...you are one ugly mother fucker. Did you know that? DRINK Ted…you are one ugly mother fucker. Did you know that?

DRINK

]]> By: Niedermeyer http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2008/01/23/obama-compares-to-regan-suicide-or-smart/#comment-97140 Niedermeyer Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:55:45 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2008/01/23/obama-compares-to-regan-suicide-or-smart/#comment-97140 The subtitle of this post is a question, so here's an answer: Smart. The Democrats desperately need a Reagan-like figure to rebrand them as "America's Party" now that the Republicans are so lost at sea. The Reagan mythos transcends any real differences in policy, it is merely the sunny optimism that America needs from time to time to convince itself that the lofty ideals of its founders are not irreparably lost to moral quagmire of empire. Like it or not, Obama represents "change" in ways that no other candidate can at a time when the country really just needs to believe in itself again... and my guess is that when his term(s) are over (yes I think he will win the election) he will leave a legacy which will repudiate much of what he says he stand for now (much like Reagan did), because he will have served his purpose, namely making the credit markets work again. The subtitle of this post is a question, so here’s an answer: Smart. The Democrats desperately need a Reagan-like figure to rebrand them as “America’s Party” now that the Republicans are so lost at sea. The Reagan mythos transcends any real differences in policy, it is merely the sunny optimism that America needs from time to time to convince itself that the lofty ideals of its founders are not irreparably lost to moral quagmire of empire. Like it or not, Obama represents “change” in ways that no other candidate can at a time when the country really just needs to believe in itself again… and my guess is that when his term(s) are over (yes I think he will win the election) he will leave a legacy which will repudiate much of what he says he stand for now (much like Reagan did), because he will have served his purpose, namely making the credit markets work again.

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