Obama: and Ray-gun-Nothing worse than an ungracious winner..

[KennedyGuy]

http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/01/29/obama-and-another-great-communicator-and-teflon-man-rr/

Ronald Reagan being a man of deeper parts than we thought at the time, had three great public talents. Barrack Obama has only two.

1. RR was a great speaker. He was eloquent when needed and direct when required. He would decide what to say and do it, mostly with grace.

2. RR had the ability to convey his statements and thoughts in ways that left him as ‘The Teflon Man’. No one could really hang a problem on his well-insulated self. Do I think that was an accident? Hell, no.

3. RR knew that you keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Hence, his public and private friendship with Speaker Tip O’Neill and other Democrats.

Obama has reminded me of Ronald Reagon, who I had suffered under as governor, since he announced his campaign. Like RR, he’s better on teleprompter than on his feet. Unlike RR, he uses, until this last two weeks, ‘passive-aggressive’ inferences rather than direct comments to demean his primary opponent, HRC.

Obama does not understand the third talent; keeping your opponents closer. He now acts rude after taking an expected primary win in SC. This could have been a moment of solidarity and unity, as he so frequently uses as his political meme.Too bad Barrack Obama missed the chance to show himself a gracious winner.

The were no surprises in South Carolina except for the size of the turnout. Obama won the vast majority of the black vote has had been expected from the beginning. The only extraordinary news would have been if Obama lost or won by a tiny margin. Obama built an effective and huge organization taking nothing for granted. Clinton withdrew a majority of her organization two weeks prior to voting. She knew the writing on the wall.

[KennedyGuy]

1. kick

[niyad]

2. sorry, but the "great communicator" never communicated anything worthwhile.

he was a lousy actor, and I NEVER understood people going on and on about his communications skills. witness the blue crayon "star wars" nonsense.

[polichick]

3. If Republicans are the enemy...

Obama is trying to keep them close ~ which irks me sometimes but if he's doing it for the right reason, I can cope.

[LSparkle]

4. "Now acts rude" -- are you buying this Handshakegate B.S.?

This is absolute high school if you think a shoulder turned away is an affront ... If I were in that position, I might imagine it being uncomfortable for Kennedy to face Hillary, and I would have turned away to give the two of them some privacy -- so Teddy wouldn't have to be "acting" in front of me and could genuinely talk for a sec with Hillary. I don't see that any of Obama's actions since S.C. have been rude or arrogant. Who's to say that Hillary was all that glad to see Obama ... Her wide smile was for Kennedy but she might have been shooting daggers at Barack (as often happens in debates). With only one set of pictures, we don't know the whole story.

[Dogmudgeon]

5. I think you're reading too much into this

Not to be critical of you -- so I'll elaborate --

1. Reagan was a master shmoozer -- this was spun into the "Great Communicator" myth. He certainly had "mad skills", but myth-making tends to overlook the truth for a good story.

2. The Clintons made a couple of spectacular blunders, and Team Obama overreacted to them. Now, both campaigns are totally off-balance and the press is reaping the rewards. And we knuckleheads at DU are about to go critical. Just the usual primary season stuff.

--p!

[robbedvoter]

6. You lost me at "man of deeper parts"

[DianaForRussFeingold]

7. K&R-- Like,Lieberman before him, Obama has mastered the game !

edited to add--
I don't trust him--I hope I'm wrong! 'What Obama really Meant- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=4194873
"The True Legacy of Ronald Reagan-- Look at the Closed Minds and Hard Hearts of the Conservatives who Staff the Bush Administration." http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0608-04.htm

"Beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan, many Democrats in power drifted away from the core values of the Democratic Party and started running as “Republican-lite” candidates. They started trying to compete for corporate campaign money by permitting awful trade agreements that undermined the health of the American economy and weakened the American middle class while helping the economic elite become even more powerful.

Some Democrats playing footsie with Republicans and large corporations failed working Americans and the poor by letting the obscenely wealthy start paying much lower percentages of their incomes in federal taxes than the middle class majority. Many Democrats started turning their backs on some common sense elements of the Roosevelt tradition of having those able to pay higher taxes pay them. We call this progressive taxation. The rich pay should be paying higher tax rates since they have more influence on government policies and benefit more from them.

They completely abandoned our federal government commitment to preventing monopoly control by large corporations of many important aspects of everyday life. Price-gouging has become routine. Insider trading and excessive executive pay has become routine in the corporate world. Wealthy foreign corporations are often having more impact on government policies than the needs of average Americans. Media consolidation has blocked out almost all non-corporate voices in the discussion of public policy issues."
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