AP: Obama, the True Heir to Reaganomics

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The RSS headline reads, “Obama: Powell will have a role in administration.” What a shock. But clicking the link leads to this article—the latest fawning AP press release for the Obama campaign, with a new headline that probably has the Gipper spinning: Obama updates Reagan’s economic critique.

TAMPA, Fla. – Barack Obama promised a Florida audience Monday he would halt foreclosures in their tracks and updated a famous Ronald Reagan line to criticize Republican handling of the nation’s deepening economic distress.

“At this rate, the question isn’t just ‘Are you better off than you were four years ago?’, it’s ‘Are you better off than you were four weeks ago?’” the Democratic presidential nominee asked a raucous crowd here of about 8,000.

In an October, 1980, debate with incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter, Reagan asked listeners, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Reagan went on to oust Carter in that presidential election.

With just over two weeks left until Election Day, Obama set aside two full days to campaign across Florida, which twice went for Republican George Bush and now figures prominently in the Democrat’s hopes for clinching the presidency.

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