Is Obama following Reagan?

[Lord of Elves]

Exactly. I don't believe the quote. Reagan would be spinning in his grave at being compared to such an inept rerun of Carter, the president he replaced.

Or maybe Reagan isn't a vengeful Lovecraftian deity.

 

[ilduce349]

Again, where is that quote from? You've ignored the question twice.

Did you not see the link at the bottom of the post?
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/05/reagan-centennial/#disqus_thread

 

[useless]

Unlike Reagan, Obama isn't a racist nor a homophobe.

 

[MeteorPunch]

Time magazine trolls.

Critical hit!

 

[JollyRoger]

If we lost 241 servicemen from an attack by an organization named Islamic Jihad, I doubt that Obama would cut and run from the country where the servicemen were located. Let's face the ugly facts, Obama is no Reagan.

 

[NickyJ]

If we lost 241 servicemen from an attack by an organization named Islamic Jihad, I doubt that Obama would cut and run from the country where the servicemen were located.

Correct. He would just run and not even bother with the cutting part.

Let's face the ugly facts, Obama is no Reagan.

Again, correct. While Reagan wasn't the greatest president and made some mistakes, he was certainly a lot better than the weaklings of the time. He restored patriotism to the country. He is a thousand times better than Obama.

Did you not see the link at the bottom of the post?
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/05/reagan-centennial/#disqus_thread

Ooh boy. One of the sections at the site: "Radical Right-Win Agenda". It just lost every scrap of the little credibility it had left.

Unlike Reagan, Obama isn't a racist nor a homophobe.

Reagan wasn't a racist. There isn't even a scrap of evidence to prove your statement.

 

[Miles Teg]

He's following Reagan's example to the extent that he's behaving like any president over the last half century.

But that kind of non-metaphor doesn't sell papers.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Reagan wasn't a racist. There isn't even a scrap of evidence to prove your statement.

Actually, there is quite a bit. Here's a few of them:

Reagan’s Revolution: Stoking White Racism

According to Krugman, this was an intentional strategy based on a concession that the GOP had not had much luck winning the African American vote. “The G.O.P.’s own leaders admit that the great Southern white shift was the result of a deliberate political strategy. ‘Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization.’ So declared Ken Mehlman, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, speaking in 2005.” Ronald Reagan used it, exploited and benefited from it. Some examples of Regan’s exploitation of racism:

•He was opposed to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was the same year that Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney were slaughtered. As president, he actually tried to weaken the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

•He opposed a national holiday for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., giving in only when Congress passed a law creating the holiday by a veto-proof majority

•He tried to get rid of the federal ban on tax exemptions for private schools that practiced racial discrimination.

•in 1988, he vetoed a bill to expand the reach of federal civil rights legislation. Congress overrode the veto.

•Reagan also vetoed the imposition of sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa. Congress overrode that veto, too.

•When he went on about the welfare queen driving her Cadillac, and kept repeating the story years after it had been debunked, some people thought he was engaging in race-baiting.

•in 1976, he talked about working people angry about the “strapping young buck” using food stamps to buy T-bone steaks at the grocery store, he didn’t mean to play into racial hostility. True, as The New York Times reported, the ex-Governor has used the grocery-line illustration before, but in states like New Hampshire where there is scant black population, he has never used the expression “young buck,” which, to whites in the South, generally denotes a large black man.

•Reagan declared in 1980 that the Voting Rights Act had been “humiliating to the South”

•in 1982, when Reagan intervened on the side of Bob Jones University, which was on the verge of losing its tax-exempt status because of its ban on interracial dating

•in 1983, Reagan fired three members of the Civil Rights Commission

The upside to all of this ugliness is as relevant today as it was on the day that Krugmen wrote his article. He argued that Reagan’s support for “states rights” was “a coded declaration of support for segregationist sentiments.” Krugman argues that a permanent conservative majority will never be maintained because as “we have become a more diverse and less racist country over time. The “macaca” incident, in which Senator George Allen’s use of a racial insult led to his election defeat, epitomized the way in which America has changed for the better.” The direct link between the conservative movement and racial backlash has been undermined by what Barack Obama discussed in his inauguration speech– that seismic shift in politics that is directly linked to the declining power of that racial backlash.

Reagan went out of his way to court the Dixiecrats to switch parties. And he did it largely with racism.

 

[JollyRoger]

He restored patriotism to the country.

I don't think he ever wore a flag pin on his lapel.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

He restored patriotism to the country.

So did Hitler

To make a serious remark: I don't quit see why this is treated as relevant. I mean it sounds like a pleasant bonus - but it seems to be viewed by some Americans as a core argument for why Reagen was a good President. Why? I understand how it can make one feel all fluffy inside when thinking about that, but what is the actual worth of it beyond said fluffy feeling?

 

[GhostWriter16]

No he wouldn't. Obama is the black version of Reagan

Obama is honestly much closer to Carter than Reagan...

Unlike Reagan, Obama isn't a racist nor a homophobe.

Racist? Where do you get that from? And homophobe? No, homophobe implies fear.

 

[eazyhasaids]

Obama didn't ruin the republican party

If we lost 241 servicemen from an attack by an organization named Islamic Jihad, I doubt that Obama would cut and run from the country where the servicemen were located. Let's face the ugly facts, Obama is no Reagan.

If Reagan was president today i doubt he would cut and run. It's a totally different time in global politics.

 

[JollyRoger]

If Reagan was president today i doubt he would cut and run. It's a totally different time in global politics.

We are less patriotic, so we fight back?

 

[useless]

"Welfare Queens" and his deafening silence on aids and the homophobic rhetoric that surrounded it.

 

[eazyhasaids]

@jolly
In the post 9/11 world its not a wise choice to appear soft on terrorism.

 

[JollyRoger]

@jolly
In the post 9/11 world its not a wise choice to appear soft on terrorism.

How about in a post hostage crisis world? Or a post-241 servicemen murdered world?

 

[Lord of Elves]

@jolly
In the post 9/11 world its not a wise choice to appear soft on terrorism.

If you think the term "Post-9/11 World" represents a valid view of geopolitics and terrorism then you probably shouldn't be able to vote for anything other than American Idol.

 

[ilduce349]

So did Hitler

HOLY ****! your right, Reagen is the Hitler of America.

 

[Formaldehyde]

No, I don't think so. Hitler was the brains of the operation. Reagan is more like Eva Braun. He was just a largely the helpless stooge of his handlers who used his senility to make the real decisions while hiding behind his pretty face.

 

[Dachs]

No, I don't think so. Hitler was the brains of the operation. Reagan is more like Eva Braun. He was just a largely the helpless stooge of his handlers who used his senility to make the real decisions while hiding behind his pretty face.

your comparison blows

here is a much better one, going by the things you in particular want to highlight of Reagan's tenure, although it's still a very bad comparison