CNN Analysis: Obama takes 'morning in America' mantle

[RamboLiberal]

President Barack Obama addressed Congress shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday, but a casual viewer might have believed it was actually morning in America.

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The president who has pledged to reverse much of Reagan's economic revolution took a page from the 40th president's playbook in his 52-minute speech, striking a defiantly optimistic tone that belied the nation's sour mood and rebutted critics who have accused him of intentionally talking down the economy for short-term political gain.

"Though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before," Obama declared to a thunderous round of applause from a packed House chamber.

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And he did it while employing some of Reagan's favorite rhetorical tools. Obama stuck to a fairly short list of priorities while invoking traditional American values of responsibility, hard work and thrift to pound home a back-to-basics message.

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It is morning in America again. A new day has clearly dawned.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/24/analysis.obama.reagan/index.html

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

1. kr

[Clio the Leo]

2. And speaking of America in the Morning, Joe the VP will be on EVERY morning show tomorrow.

Network anyway....

http://thepage.time.com/2009/02/24/veep-on-morning-tv-wednesday/

[Pab Sungenis]

3. ...and a fifth rec.

Off to the Greatest page.

[PretzelWarrior]

4. K&R to send it UP the greatest page

[stevedeshazer]

5. Comparing Obama to Reagan is an insult.

Why oh why does everything need to be compared to St. Ronnie the Forgetful?

[FrenchieCat]

6. Yeah, but Reagan is dead....and it just means that Obama is the anti-Reagan

Just as effective, but for the Democrats this time. It's all good! :)

[Posteritatis]

9. Because, believe it or not, the comparison's pretty apt

Obama's doing for the left what Reagan did for the right, and quite a few of their rhetorical techniques are pretty similar to one another. They each got their respective wing fired up, idealistic, and convinced that they might be able to Do Something About It, for various values of "it."

I can't be offended by this one.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Yeah, the morning after a raid by Visigoths. nt

[Cha]

8. Great, but I really don't give a fuck about

what reagun did. reagun's silver tongue lied but now we got the real deal.

[ClarkUSA]

10. Fuck this pro-Reagan analysis. Obama's in a class of his own. Reagan was dimwitted B actor.