[TheRealThing]

Nixon's firery hate for the soviet and its communism is what won him election. I am not debating tripling the nations debt vs. the clear attempt to rig an American election. If I was going to compare Regan to another president I think I would compare him to William Howard Taft. And to be fair, I would consider myself moderate, not a liberal.

Sorry about that but, you quoted HRV who referenced the enthusiasm experienced during the Reagan administration, which you seemed to have compared to American enthusiasm of the Nixon years. Like I said, I was there and to me that comparison is off the mark. From the end of WW2 the Carter Presidency posed the only adversity America had to struggle through. High gas, foreclosures, no work, high electricity, staggering inflation. It really was as bad as they say. Reagan came in and solved all those ills during his presidency and I am glad I got to see it.

I contrasted Reagan and Obama because of their polar opposite performances. IMO, Obama has more than erased the gains made by Reagan and eclipsed the bumbling naïveté of Jimmy Carter. I mean, for anybody to state categorically that global warming is a bigger threat than the boiling cauldron of unrest in the Middle East and Europe, means his left and right hemispheres are not acquainted as well as I would like to think a US President's should be. :biggrin:

And FTR, I am in no way suggesting that Mr Obama's missteps are born of any lack of intelligence on his part. Rather it is his dogged adherence to the liberal rationale that makes him more daring in his EO's and last minute push of the agenda.