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Stealing From The Master
Suburban Guerrilla — Will Bunch has an L.A. Times op-ed on how Obama might want to take a few communication hints from Ronald Reagan. (You can buy Will’s new book here. Guess what it’s about!)

Reagan is Dead
Newshoggers.com — ... Sorry Rush, the Americans indicated in November they have a different idea - it's the policies of Ronald Reagan that that need to be put in the trash bin of failed policies.  As we attempt to clean up the disastrous mess left behind by the George W. Bush administration we must not forget that it was in reality the policies of Ronald Reagan.  Will Bunch says that Obama could bury Ronald Reagan by emulating him.  Reagan was the great communicator and Obama would seem to have similar skills.  As Bunch reminds us the situations that brought them both into power are ...

Around the web
The Sideshow — ... spotlight faded on his presidency in 1988, tried to highlight his eight-year record by reviving a quote from John Adams, that 'facts are stubborn things.' The moment became quite famous because the then-77-year-old president had botched it, and said that 'facts are stupid things.' The tragedy of American politics was that just two decades later, facts were neither stubborn nor even stupid - but largely irrelevant." And he had a piece Sunday in the LAT saying that Obama should use Reagan's tactics to undo the damage Reagan did. ...