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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: t4texas who wrote (451292)10/17/2011 4:17:06 PM
From: Nadine Carroll3 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 793961
 
Mr. Zuckerman may know what a disaster Obama is, but that may just mean he will only support down-ticket Democrats.

This is the man who says now,

"Reagan surprised me," says Mr. Zuckerman. "He got the point of every argument. . . . He was very decisive. And everybody loved working for him. They followed his lead because they really respected his decisiveness and his instincts."

'I was not a Republican and I was not an admirer of his before I knew him," continues Mr. Zuckerman. "And you know, Harry Truman had a wonderful definition for the presidency. He said the president has to be someone who can persuade the American people to do what they don't want to do and to like it. And that's what you have to do. Somebody like Reagan had that authority. He was liked so much and he had a kind of moral authority. That's what this president has lost."

But my memory of US News and World Report in the 1980s is that it never challenged the MSM news line (which was much more the only available news in those days) that Reagan was an amiable dunce, a creature of his advisers, who handed him cue cards telling him what to say before every meeting.

Now that Reagan is safely dead, it costs liberals nothing to look broad-minded by admiring him. You won't ever see them acknowledging that any living politician is his heir.
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