Damage Control: Clarification of the Clinton campaign release citing admiration for Reagan

Take ownership of that comment: She liked Reagan's communications skills, but so do a lot of people.

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Ironically the real reason Reagan won was because of the use of actual racism.

Two very different beasts.

Obama said that the Reagan Republicans were the "party of ideas"--bad ideas, but they went against "conventional wisdom" at the time. He represented change, and the people wanted it, because the liberals at the time hadn't worked hard enough to make their case. They were out-communicated.

He's using it as an example of why we need to reach out and bring people in, not simply power our way to a Presidency and a filibuster-proof majority and effectively seize control of the government for a term. That will lead to short-term change, perhaps, but not lasting change.

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seemed to mind that he was listed as one of her favorites in an editorial, in the context of putting Republicans in her cabinet. One would think that "mistake" would have been swiftly corrected, if not true.

It's going to came back to haunt her....

Did she like Ronnie the RayGun's communications about Constructive Engagement... or his his communication skills about AIDS?

It's this release that editorializes the important word "only."

"In fact, Senator Clinton only complimented President Reagan’s communications skills – an attribute of his that has been widely praised by Americans of all ideological stripes – and did not list him as one of her favorite presidents."

The comment from David Cutler in fact says that they got into a discussion about "presidents you admire most" and "several presidents that she admired"--at some point, somehow Reagan came up--and then she said that she liked Reagan's communication skills. Not "only" his communication skills.

Why is the distinction important?

Because the quote from Mr. Cutler suggests that Clinton did include Reagan in a list of "several presidents that she admired" even if the words used were not "favorite presidents."

Again, I don't give a crap what Clinton or Obama said about Reagan, because neither of them idolize the man. They recognize the qualities that made him a formidable opponent. But I'm violently allergic to hypocrisy.

Didn't Reagan's great communication skills help him greatly in all the horrible things he did to this country?

So does that mean Hillary admires Reagan for using his communication skills to do bad things.

I guess that's what I have to believe.