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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Elroy who wrote (46584)1/23/2008 11:39:33 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 542013
 
Just because you don't like him or his policies doesn't mean that your average American feels that way.

Well, let me add my voice to Mary on this one. Reagan was a disaster in ways far too many to enumerate on this thread. But I agree with Obama, he had a huge effect as a president. Not because, and here I disagree with Obama's second statement of this, he persuaded some blue collar Dems to vote for him. But rather, much larger, because he changed the larger political culture.

One can debate all night as to whether that we a forceful personality, charisma, exhausted Dem party, or what. But it certainly happened.

And Obama's notion that he wants to change the political culture is certainly better than the lost opportunity under Bill Clinton.

But was Reagan among the 5 to 10 great presidents? Certainly not if you measure them in terms of successfully improving the lives of Americans. But certainly so if you measure them in terms of their ability to change the political culture.
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