re: #7 Obdicut

Reagan is kind of like JFK is for the Democrats, to the Republicans. When you ask what he actually did that was impressive outside of foreign policy, there isn’t really much to point directly to, and much of what he ‘did’ was really the achievement of legislators. And on foreign policy, they both have gigantic, glaring mis-steps.

He was huge in counteracting, successfully, some of the dumbest economic policies seen in a long time. It’s hard to ascribe much blame or credit to various presidents in economic expansions and contractions…that’s what the economy does…but Carter worked hard enough to make an exception. And i don’t mean that in a good way.

So there’s that, too.