Obama/Reagan

Barack Obama’s comment about Ronald Reagan that you may have heard about:

And the Republicans being the party of ideas in recent times:

The Clinton campaign then spun these remarks to mean that Obama endorsed the ideas of Reagan and the Republicans. If you listen to what he’s saying, it’s quite clear he’s doing neither of those things. He’s explaining one of the reasons Reagan and Republicans have been successful in the past, and to a large degree, he’s right.

I think it was Jon Stewart who said something like “we’re stuck between a party of bad ideas and a party of no ideas”.