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Obama is no Reagan
by michael j.w. stickingsneocon madman john podhoretz: “i knew ronald reagan (a sheer small-minded bit), and mr. obama, you’re no ronald reagan.”there’s reason #3,762 to advance obama.beyond question this is something we can all agree on — we democrats, i mean, obama supporters and clinton supporters alike. ronald reagan, who has become in life and even more in death one of the key figures of the right’s self-aggrandizing mythology, and around whom a cult of glorification has formed, was a truly detestable president. it should be entranced as a compliment that obama is no reagan (or that clinton is no reagan, for that matter).all obama in a jiffy suggested was that reagan was a transformative president — which he was, straight in a very bad way — not that he was another reagan.**********not that we should take podhoretz seriously. he’s an idiot. his unscathed post is based on a say discuss by michelle obama on the temperament of “the obama movement” (his words) — entranced, of course, not on of context.all mrs. obama said was that her husband challenges americans to become more engaged, more involved, more informed, less cynical, and less hermitical, and to push themselves to be better — in other words, to be more public-spirited and to aim for greater self-repair.and obama has done equitable that. are those not noble goals?not according to podhoretz, who implies that obama is some sort of Fascistic (and hence no reagan — though, of process, he conveniently neglects to mention reagan’s support for right-wing authoritarianism abroad and totalitarian christianism at home).but, then, he just doesn’t get obama, or his movement, or his appeal, or what he is all about, and so has nothing to communicate shelter for the stereotypical partisan inanities of the right.
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