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OF course the GOP Reagan era was a period of new ideas. There is no question about that. If that is what Obama was saying, then we could all agree with that.

What he did not say is that most of them were stupendously BAD ideas that have put this country on the path of ruin. Reagan and the two Bushes that followed his path have run up 8 trillion dollars of debt that our grandchildren may never repay. They systematically transferred trillions of dollars to their friends through initiatives like the S&L meltdown, Iran-Contra, Star Wars, and the Iraq invasion. They have set the stage for the destruction of the middle class way of life. Before Ronald Reagan arrived with his new ideas, new drugs actually had to pass safety tests and many families got by nicely with one parent working one full-time job. Before Reagan's ideas, we had a military that won World War II, and now we can't even manage to hold a peace in one small country like Iraq.

Yes, Reagan was a man of ideas. Very bad ideas.

Where was that in Obama's statement? If anything, he gave Reagan's ideas a blanket endorsement. I could maybe see a comment like that in the general election when trying to appeal to people who had voted for Reagan and are still too dense to understand where that went wrong. But saying this in the middle of the primary campaign is just as stupid as maying Jesse Jackson Jr his spokesman.

I'm done with the guy. At least Hillary is the devil we know. And I do believe she shes the Reagan ideas for what there were.