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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (94636)	11/7/2008 4:50:50 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541851

The only thing that bothers me about Obama now is that he still has kind words for Ronald Reagan. I don't think he has to go negative, but I don't think he should bring up that name. I have few kind words for Gramps Reagan. But--I think Obama was right to say what he did. He wants to direct a big tent. There are a lot of people who still have warm fuzzies (and more) for RR. At this point, it harms no one and threatens nothing for Obama to say nice things about the man. By praising him now, Obama gets to those people. But Reagan the man is basically irrelevant now, much to chagrin of people like Norquist, Forbes and others who pretend to his "heirs." If my view of Obama is right, he is operating on a political plane that encompasses far more than you and me and virtually everyone else in this country. He has a mixture of cold analytic abilities along with a visionary goals. As has been said of someone else, he has his feet on the ground and his head in the clouds. Something like that.