Hillary Supporters 'Stupefied' by Obama's Reagan Comments

Reagan had "reagan democrats" and Obama has "Obama republicans"

ahhhhhhhhh yesss

we have them here in Philadelphia :)

However, they have switched to democrats to vote for Obama

Below is a press release from Hillary Clintons campaign where she states that Reagan as well as HW Bush are among her favorite Presidents. The hypocrisy of her supporters know no bounds.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=4674

Please cut and paste. It will be well worth your while. Very enlightening read

I want my campaign contribution back!

http://roadkillrefugee.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/obama-cites-reagan-as-hi...

Who ever is in a union and votes for Obama gets what they deserve. In new hampshire Obama and Oprah bullied a working union picket line so they could cross it. Regean done more damage to unions and they have never recovered. So Regean is Obama's hero

well, its clear that obama was making a political observation about why the republicans where so very successful and why the democrats where always reacting to republicans. by saying that the republicans where the party of ideas he was simply making a factual observation..that they actually had ideas..not that the ideas where good or bad (obama clearly feels they where mostly all bad) Clinton and edwards are smart enough to know this..but they use it as political ammunation in the hopes that the primary voters will not be smart enough to know this..and by the way..both clintons have made much more openly supportive remarks about reagan in the past.

Fun stuff. I love to see the Clinton's squirm and look like the reactionary idiots they are. I guess Hillary's people were under a rock in 2004 when Ronnie died, and they didn't see the outpouring of support and grief for our 40th president. In the pantheon of super great presidents, it's Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Reagan.

I guess Geoff and michael are media dupes and prefer to keep their heads where the sun don't shine.

Reagan was not an overly popular president...that's a myth. His numbers were worse than Bill Clinton's --- and Bill Clinton had the added benefit of not only being more popular HERE but also vastly more popular around the world. Deal with it. It's called reality. You know, those pesky things called "facts?"

And I don't care what Hillary said about Reagan, Obama's statements are more odious because he has to know that Reagan's election was all about the racist rolling back of civil rights, even if his youthful followers aren't up on Reagan's kickoff event in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where the KKK murdered civil rights workers. Obama is shameless, and his followers need to hold him to account instead of making excuses for him or making childish assertions of "Hillary said something nice about Reagan, too." Hillary didn't
categorize the civil rights movement as "excesses" of the 60's and 70's....Uncle Obama did.

I actually got the quote, and it seems all you outraged Clinton supporters have little appreciation for something called "nuance":

Obama:
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.

I think Kennedy, twenty years earlier, moved the country in a fundamentally different direction. So I think a lot of it just has to do with the times.

I think we’re in one of those times right now. Where people feel like things as they are going aren’t working. We’re bogged down in the same arguments that we’ve been having, and they’re not useful.

And, you know, the Republican approach, I think, has played itself out.

I think it’s fair to say the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last ten, fifteen years, in the sense that they were challenging conventional wisdom.

There are no superlative words used here regarding Reagan's policies. He applauds NONE of Reagan's policies. He simply states what he perceives to be facts laid out in history. I've got absolutely no love for Reagan and I think his policies were horribly flawed, but he had a vision and communicated it well to the majority of American voters. The fact that it worked may be an indictment of Reagan, his supporters, or American society, but it's not a crime that Obama can look at history dispassionately and speak the truth.

If you want someone to tell you anything you want to hear, Romney's dying to talk to you.

I was on the fence about who I was going to vote for on February 5th, but the distortions and lies from the Clintons are getting out of control. If Senator Clinton gets the nomination, I may stay home in November.