Reply #46: I never "smeared" Obama. I've not really talked about this issue much. [View All]

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To be honest, I've not studied this Reagan quote much as others have here. I've tried to focus on looking at other less divisive issues that are more about substance than slamming people. If it was Obama that brought up Reagan in his campaign, he has to be prepared for the negative reaction of that. There are many here that any attempt to do so is an attempt to appeal to those that have been excluding us from dialogue for a decade or so and trying to marginalize and push us aside as "far left". What I am taking issue with you here is you generalizing that all of us supporting Edwards are there most likely for racist reasons, and that as being his big drawing card. That's totally unfair. There might be a few racists here, but I don't count myself among them, and I think their purposes would be better served by aligning themselves with another candidate.

I'm not saying that Obama shouldn't be one that can negotiate at times, but I think he needs to make MORE clear what issues that aren't negotiable than he has. Otherwise it appears as pandering. Even Reagan, when he negotiated with the Soviets would make clear his positions of being inflexible in some areas that he felt strong change was needed. And that's the only credit I'll give Reagan, since the fall of the Soviet empire had as much to do with Jimmy Carter's championing the U.S. as a country fighting for nations' human rights as it was an arms showdown. Former Soviet officials have said this.