Here is the only thing I will say on the "Reagan Issue". Short and sweet (and smart)

[Bonobo]

The Republicans are and were always going to make this the year the they invoke the sacred memory of Reagan,right? McCain is boasting that he is the true inheritor of the Reagan legacey, that he was a "foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution", right?

Are all the self-blinded, willfully ignorant Obama haters with me so far?

Okay, so what Obama did was to inocculate himself and his campaign against the Repukes gaining the lion's share of the independant vote that remembers Reagan with fondness (or who's parents remembered him with fondness).

It was smart. It was politics. It was the beginning of the process of making everyone believe they are on the same team again in this country and the reason most people do not recognize it as such is because they are so used to the politics of division.

That's all. Thanks for listening.

On Edit: I wanted to add something I just posted below.

In the end, a myth is just a myth. A symbol just a symbol.

They are like mirrors and people see what they want to see when they gaze into them.

A smart politician, a smart leader, uses symbols effectively to reach people.

So what Reagan means to YOU is not as important as it what he means to EACH PERSON.

If Reagan made people feel hope, pride and optimism, it is a good thing to evoke THAT aspect of his memory as a symbol of what we all want to feel about our country, about our fellow americans.

SOME OF US WANT VERY MUCH TO LOVE OUR COUNTRY AGAIN!!

THAT is what Obama was appealing to. Bravo.

You will NOT find someone who persoanlly despised the Reagain presidency more than this Bonobo. But it is irrelevant to this discussion.