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Edwards Rips Obama's Reagan Comparison

By Big Tent Democrat

Via Jerome Armstrong, Edwards rips Obama. Unfortunatrely thre story seems mangled up. Indeed it provides a quote for Obama which I wish he would have said, but I am pretty sure he did NOT:

"When the country was so sick of a blue state president, Carter, Reagan was able to tap into it by being 100% red-state," said Obama. "Reagan knew the electorate was so sick of a blue-state president and blue-state policies, they we're willing to go 100% red. Reagan didn't mince words. He ran on a 100% red-state message. When Reagan won with a 100% red state message, Reagan had a 100% red-state mandate. Reagan knew transformation was all about mandate. Reagan ran a clear red-issue campaign. He never reached out to blue. Reagan was able to bowl over any resistance in Congress because he had a clear 100% red-state mandate. When you have a 100% red-state mandate, no one is surprised by what you do. Reagan, therefore, was able to get all the changes he wanted. Reagan was for those reasons...transformational."

But Obama never said that, which is a shame. At least it would have shown he gets it. Unfortunately, as I wrote before, Obama is no Reagan.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 17, 2008 (boomark / email).