Reagan Not One of Clinton’s Favorites
18 January 2008 6:40 pm by Taylor Marsh
Can we please stop this nonsense?
Of course not.
So one more time into the oppo push back breach (link added).
After Obama’s ridiculous caught on tape slobbering moment over The Gipper,
his team is doing major damage control and they’ve been busy. They dug up something
out of Clinton’s endorsement file from last month. In
December, the Salmon Press Newspapers put out the following:
Her list of favorite presidents – Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln,
both Roosevelts, Truman, George H.W. Bush and Reagan – demonstrates how she
thinks. As expected, Bill Clinton was also included on the aforementioned
list.
Alert the media!
The problem is that the article is incorrect and they got the story wrong. The co-owner
of the newspaper clarified and verified it:
David Cutler, the co-owner of Salmon Press Newspapers, released the
following statement:The question posed was originally what portraits would you hang in the White
House if you were President and as the dialogue progressed, who are the presidents
you admire most?She [Sen. Clinton] listed several presidents that she admired and
mentioned she liked Reagan’s communication skills. She did not say Reagan
was her favorite President. She didn’t say anything close to that.
No one can doubt Reagan’s communications skills. It’s one thing that infuriated
everyone, especially Democrats. Compared to George W. Bush, Reagan now seems
like Shakespeare. He seduced a lot of people with his acting ability. But that’s
a lot different from saying Reagan was on “her list of favorite presidents.”
Clinton didn’t say it. The paper got it wrong. The co-owner just cleared it
up. End of story.
As for Obama, make no mistake about it, the video above made him do it.
UPDATE: Big Tent Democrat. Read eriposte, who takes down Obama’s Reagan worship, and a post by Markos, proving that some people should stay away from topics on which they are uninformed:
Markos unfortunately confused message discipline with ideas. Wrong, wrong, wrong. The Democrats have been the party of ideas, the Republicans have been the party of propaganda. That has not changed much in a long long time.
