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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (46735)	1/25/2008 10:11:59 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) of 542008

Not that I want to belabor this point but just out of curiosity what were these Reagan policies that changed the course of history? Bill Clinton circa '91 disagreed with your view that Reagan brought nothing to the table and that an ex-President of the opposite party should never be complimented. Clinton in '91 sounds a hell of a lot like Obama now <g>. Message 24249092 Echo Chamber Bill Clinton used to sound a lot like Barack Obama, which makes his recent outbursts all the more disheartening. By E.J. Dionne Jr., The New Republic Published: Thursday, January 24, 2008 WASHINGTON--It was a remarkable moment: A young, free-thinking presidential hopeful named Bill Clinton sat down with reporters and editors at The Washington Post in October 1991 and started saying things most Democrats wouldn't allow to pass their lips. Ronald Reagan, Clinton said, deserved credit for winning the Cold War. He praised Reagan's "rhetoric in defense of freedom" and his role in "advancing the idea that communism could be rolled back." "The idea that we were going to stand firm and reaffirm our containment strategy, and the fact that we forced them to spend even more when they were already producing a Cadillac defense system and a dinosaur economy, I think it hastened their undoing," Clinton declared. Clinton was careful to add that the Reagan military program included "a lot of wasted money and unnecessary expenditure," but the signal had been sent: Clinton was willing to move beyond "the brain-dead politics in both parties," as he so often put it. snip...............

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