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.