Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterNewsweek: Obama is more like Reagan than Lincoln
Published 1/20/2009 at msnbc.com: Politics
Everybody in the capital is comparing Obama to Abraham Lincoln. But the more recent—and illuminating—comparison is Ronald Reagan. In 1981, Reagan came to town vowing a massive shift in philosophical thinking.
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