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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder

Reagan had a policy to willfully create deficits. He was basically a puppet for big business and did their bidding. Tying business and government even farther. Because of Regean the top 1% of the country started to attain more wealth at the expense of the middle class. Obviously, he was a more effective President than Carter, but his policies were terrible. I think he will come to be known as where it all started to go very wrong for the United States.

It's funny how Clinton is championed by progressives as a great liberal President. He is a reasonable politician, a rarity nowadays, but he wasn't very progressive and a lot of his policy decisions reinforced Regean's mistakes and led to the mess we are in today.

As for Obama, you are underestimating him. He is already a more effective President than Carter, dealing with a much worse state of affairs. He, unlike Carter, is also a master politician and campaigner. He is the best President at image control we have seen since Reagan. The only reason he is struggling right now is an economy that was handed to him in absolute shambles and has faltered since then. Economic recovery wouldn't have been attained no matter who was President.

Now, I don't think he's a particularly progressive or helpful President, but he's in the toughest spot since FDR. Any President of the last 40 years would have struggled mightily in this current economic and political climate.

WEAK. I guess I should've voted for McCain then.