Xenotime (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-27-11 12:52 PM
Original message
Why is TIME putting President Obama and Ronnie Raygun together on the cover?!?!
Edited on Thu Jan-27-11 12:54 PM by Xenotime
What the **** is happening?!?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x285173SugarShack (332 posts) Thu Jan-27-11 01:05 PM
Response to Reply #16
20. It is the propaganda ensured to make him a one term louie, as they show you they're the same!
You're half right , half-wit. It's propaganda to make people believe that Obama is a centrist and a decent president.
Safetykitten (961 posts) Thu Jan-27-11 01:37 PM
Response to Reply #20
49. Oh yes, propaganda will do it. That's what will make him a one term.
Truth and his own actions will do him in , unfortunately the MSM reports neither of those.
27inCali (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-27-11 01:15 PM
Response to Reply #3
32. Because Obama is the Liberal Reagan
TIME is saying Obama has started a new Progressive era in American politics just like Reagan started a Conservative one.
Bluebear (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-27-11 02:55 PM
Response to Reply #32
65. No. Obama hearts Reagan because he changed the "excesses of the 60's & 70's" in govt.
'I don't want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what's different are the times. I do think that for example the 1980 was different. I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think people, he just tapped into what people were already feeling, which was we want clarity we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing.'
Beacool (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-27-11 04:53 PM
Response to Reply #65
91. That a Democratic president feels this way is very disheartening.
"I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating."
Yeah, the excesses of the 60s that allowed him as an AA man to run for president decades later. Without the fight for civil rights, he and Hillary would not have been able to run for the presidency in 2008. Did he forget that history lesson?
If AA stands for Affirmative Action, then you're right. He didn't run on qualifications, nor ability.
