Why Obama Will Go Down as One of the Greatest Presidents of All Time (Barack Obama Group)

[maddiemom]

45. There is no better example than Reagan in terms of Rove's(?) statement

as to, loosely, Republicans' "creating their own reality" and being history's actors. I've been involved in politics since I was a fifteen year old "Kennedy girl" and recruited a lot of other kids, who admittedly just wanted the hat and sash in our very Republican town. I had to wait until I was 21 to vote at that time. I've always basically traced the thirty-five year post WWII U.S. "golden years" as ending with the Reagan administration. The fact that Republicans consider Reagan, rather than Eisenhower, as the great presidential saint in the last half of the twentieth century says it all. Much as liberals hated Nixon at the time, "Tricky Dick" looks better in retrospect, than what the Repubs are offering up these days. Meanwhile the Democrats seemed determined on a "sainted" candidate who never would have survived an election had we known the "dirty details' we agonize over in current politics.