(June 21, 2014 at 12:17 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: When Obama was voted in the world breathed a sigh of relief because he is a proper politition unlike those joke ones you've all been voting in since the eighties.
I mean George Bush Junior...the rot started with Reagan.
You're absolutely right. It is Reagan who popularized the idea of being elected to the government on a platform of being against government. Unregulated free market capitalism, the personhood of corporations, the cutting of social safety nets: those are all legacies of our grade B movie actor president.