Obama Campaign Does Debate Cleanup On Social Security Answer

Obama's been trying to sell himself as Reagan's standard bearer since the 2008 campaign.  Not long ago, Obama actually said, "I admired Ronald Reagan".  A Democrat who governs as a Republican­, continuing just about all of the Bush-Cheney policies and getting Republican legislatio­n through Congress isn't "better".

With Obama, we're getting Republican policies sold to us as if they're what we wanted.  Just because the Republican Party's base is too stupid to know they should be thrilled to have Obama in the White House doesn't mean the Democratic Party's base is.

Back during the campaign in 2008, Democratic voters refused to press Obama when he said this:

"I don't want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what is different is the times. I do think that, for example, the 1980 election was different. I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamenta­lly different path because the country was ready for it. They felt like with all the excesses of the 60s and the 70s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountabi­lity in terms of how it was operating. I think he 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."

He admires and wants to emulate Reagan.

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