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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama: Ronald Reagan Couldn't Have Won GOP Primary Today
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says if President Ronald Reagan was running for president now, he "could not get through a Republican primary today."
Obama said during a question-and-answer session with newspaper editors on Tuesday that Reagan was forced to raise taxes and spending cuts to deal with high deficits during his presidency in the 1980s.
The president says if Reagan were running today, he couldn't emerge from the current Republican primary contest led by Mitt Romney.
Obama is criticizing Republican presidential candidates who were not willing to raise taxes in order to deal with high federal budget deficits.
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Full Transcipt and Video of Obama Speech Today
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/03/1080334/-Full-Transcipt-and-Video-of-Obama-Speech-Today-
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Obama: Ronald Reagan Couldn't Have Won GOP Primary Today (Original Post)
kpete
Apr 2012
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Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)1. More banks closed under Reagan than during the Great Depression.
So much for "trickle down economics"!
Turbineguy
(37,355 posts)2. Which is kind of bizarre
considering his role in creating it.
GopperStopper2680
(397 posts)3. This just means that he was shortsighted.
'Reaganomics' was for Reagan what Bush's system was for Bush. It wasn't good for anybody but himself and his political cronies.
CAPHAVOC
(1,138 posts)4. And it makes me wonder.
How JFK would do in a Democratic primary.
rurallib
(62,431 posts)5. Imagine what they would do with war hero Eisenhower today
bart95
(488 posts)6. well, he was kind of rough with women
bart95
(488 posts)7. reagan learned that money isnt everything
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)8. He s correct
The real Reagan coud not, now the myth...