Proof that Demoncrates are syncopates who will try anything to get what they want which is control of your money so they can give it to those who do not deserve it-themselves.

Also, none of the them can ride a horse like Reagan, unless it is the breed in front of the grocery store that eats quarters before it moves.

Barry’s just the manifestation of that indoctrination.

baldilocks on June 10, 2008 at 5:35 PM

Exactly. Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of his followers believed that the USA started WWII, that’s how far gone they are.

But of course he is. If he wasn’t, he would have stood up way back when he started running and allowed as how black liberation theology is a good thing

Is someone stopping you from looking up this info? I found out what it was in two second flat and who its founder, James Cone, is. Checked one of his books out of the library and am about to go pick up another. Several other people did this also. Sean Hannity and lots of others were doing this last year. Wright’s DVDs have been on sale to the public for years.

The point is that he is not hiding. All too many are in denial about what’s right in front of their eyes, however.

I was half-drunk, fully stoned, and I nailed it. Ynot elect me President?

I bet no one noticed.

JiangxiDad on June 10, 2008 at 4:00 PM

I’m certain any judgemental jackasses were probably too dim to notice. Clever people might have picked up on it, though.

Barry’s not hiding his ideas.

But of course he is. If he wasn’t, he would have stood up way back when he started running and allowed as how black liberation theology is a good thing. If he was, he’d allow as how Bill Ayers is really a standup guy and his wife is a sharp cookie too.

If he was, when he speaks about “hope” and “change” he’d say just exactly what he intends to do, and how he intends to do it.

He isn’t. Because he can’t. Because his message might sell in France, but it won’t sell here. That’s the point Beckel’s missing and you seem to be missing too. Most of the people in the US don’t really consider themselves liberal or conservative, but they’re in fact way to the right of Barry.

The more he has to show of himself, the worse he’s going to fare. And proof is that is his finish among Democrats.

Beckel makes his point. What he overlooks is that Reagan didn’t have to hide his ideas to make his case. Barry does.

Typhoon on June 10, 2008 at 5:11 PM

Barry’s not hiding his ideas. The people who accept him have been indoctrinated into to believing that “his” ideas make sense. Barry’s just the manifestation of that indoctrination.

Reagan ran not as an agent of amorphous “change” but as a champion of strength, individual liberty, and personal freedom. People like those things.

Conservative people like these things, which is why Reagan was their perfect representative.

Taxes, regulation, and your elite betters deciding on high how you should live your life and making you take it, not so much.

Liberal/Leftists do like these things, which is why Obama is the perfect representative of their values.

Believe it or not, I think most people understand.

Other than your comment, this is not in evidence.

ocbrat on June 10, 2008 at 5:08 PM

My general rule is to never trust anyone who cant write a good novel with a ghostwriter.

Ollie is out.

Folks, Beckel’s not saying that Obama is like Reagan in substance. He’s saying that Obama is to Left ideology what Reagan was to Right ideology.

baldilocks on June 10, 2008 at 5:00 PM

Believe it or not, I think most people understand.

The point is that while that may be so, there are a few things he left out. Like while it’s no doubt true, Barry’s keeping it a secret. Reagan ran not as an agent of amorphous “change” but as a champion of strength, individual liberty, and personal freedom. People like those things. Taxes, regulation, and your elite betters deciding on high how you should live your life and making you take it, not so much.

Yeah, the Left knows what Obama is, and they love him for Uncle Jerry and his buddy Bill all the more. But to suggest that Reagan really had the depth and breadth of far-right lifelong associations that Barry does with Marxists is laughable.

Beckel makes his point. What he overlooks is that Reagan didn’t have to hide his ideas to make his case. Barry does.

Obama is the Democrats’ Reagan

Everyone knows that The Gipper’s tride and true name is good for votes…am still waiting for a true Reaganaut to throw their hat in the ring…Col North are you listening???

It only took 30 or comments to get there, but certainly this is what Beckel meant.

BigD on June 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM

Hey, thanks. I wouldn’t have figured that Out had I not read Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles, however.

Folks, Beckel’s not saying that Obama is like Reagan in substance. He’s saying that Obama is to Left ideology what Reagan was to Right ideology.

From the very, absolute beginning, Ronald Reagan told the American people just exactly who he was, and what he believed in. The rise of his movement was not about him; it was about his ideas. Add to that the unfortunate-for-the-left fact that Reagan’s ideas actually resonate with the core beliefs of Americans, and they work.

The idea that Reagan ran on a message of “change” for the sake of change is absurd. Reagan ran on a very specific set of ideas and proposals.

Obama is purely and simply and only a cult of personality.

But we don’t do that here. We get a little leery of men who seem to want to forget they’re mortal.

Want precedents? When’s the last time this country, feeling ill-at-ease in the world, handed over the Presidency to the more dovish candidate?

Never.

The only time since 1976 we’ve as a country trusted the Democrats with the White House was when we though history was over and we didn’t have to worry about messy nettlesome details like protecting ourselves.

No, sorry Bob. This isn’t 1980 all over again. You’re off by eight years. This is 1972 all over again. The Left has its champion and its all giddy about it; the Republicans have a nominee who has all the charisma of a tree stump. But there’s too much on the line, so the folks in Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania and Missouri who will decide this will stick with the stump, and Barry can peddle off into the sunset.

“Blame Bush” ain’t going to cut it.

Of course it will, they`ll always use it.

From the year 2525: Protoype hyperspace drive starship explodes, officals blame Bush`s illegal Iraq war for draining much needed resources.

Reagan was REAL. Obama is a figment of the left’s imagination.

Connie on June 10, 2008 at 1:28 PM

That’s right. Reagan was The REAL DEAL. Everyone else is a cheap imitation – even Obama.

I was half-drunk, fully stoned, and I nailed it. Ynot elect me President?

I bet no one noticed.

Reagan is compared as the model Conservative, who was an honest and a deeply religious man, he was someone you like and trust to do what he says he’ll do and he’ll do anything to protect America from our enemies.

Obama, is the model liberal who can’t be trusted and uses religion as a way to an end, he’s not someone you can trust and he’ll sell out America if it suits his purpose.

Bob Beckel: Obama is the Democrats’ Reagan

LegendHasIt: Bob Beckel is the Idiots’ Moron

I never could understand the respect that a lot of conservatives have espoused for Beckel. He has less grasp of reality than say, Susan Estridge, and a personality that makes Geraldo Rivera seem downright stable and likable by comparison.

Good communication = Votes.

This is what the McCain people don’t want to acknowledge.

If by that phrase Beckel means that Obama is the embodiment of the Demcocrat/Left/Liberal (unconstrained) vision like Reagan was the embodiment of the Republican/Right/Conservative (constrained) vision of government, then, yes, Obama is the Dem Reagan.

/Sowell

baldilocks on June 10, 2008 at 3:09 PM

It only took 30 or comments to get there, but certainly this is what Beckel meant.