It's not just annoying, it's poisonous to the progressive political rationale.

I object to a man who made racism easier to hide being given the cover of this kind of unctuous praise by one of our party's standard bearers. Oh, the Republicans are going to say forever now, but if Obama could praise him, you must be exaggerating how bad he was if not outright making it up. Now he's finally got the path cleared for sainthood, let alone all those dead Guatemalans and what have you.

On policy, I thought I made it pretty clear that I object to his repetition of the criticism that government in that era had grown out of control, as it were. What he says now is going to hem him in later. Does he want to give us a better health care system? Going to be damn hard now.

The idea that government in the way Reagan meant it, the provision of public services, was excessive and intrusive is pernicious. The current security state in all its surveilling glory doesn't come in for the whipping, no, the social welfare edifices of the pre-Reagan presidents get it.

You want to see a disturbing pattern? It's how this so-called postpartisan keeps kicking left and hugging right. Let's all hope that you're right, and he's just an obfuscator, instead of that I'm right, and he's just a jerk.

I agree. Obama wants to be the New Inspirational Leader that will lead us out of the awful place that we're in as a nation. That takes a special kind of leader and he is one of those. Reagan was too. I didn't like much of what Reagan did or stood for, but he did  make so much of America feel good about itself again, somehow. I was too young to really follow the politics in it all but when you speak with people of my parents' generation, they saw  so many awful events in the 60's and 70's (assasinations, scandals, recession, hyper-inflation, oil crisis, etc.) that made them think the country was coming apart at the seams. Reagan made them feel like everything's gonna be alright again.

While Obama has these same inspirational abilities that Reagan did, his policy ideas are completely opposite. What he possesses though, as Reagan did, is the ability to disarm the other side of the aisle. If he wins, we could be referring to a new animal in politics the "Obama Republicans" like Reagan created the "Reagan Democrats." While these republicans know Obama's a liberal, they're surprisingly okay with it because they know we've swung too far right as a nation and we need to clean house and fix things with progressive solutions for a while. He's the guy that they will trust to get us out of this disaster.

Amen. Thanks BooMan

some consider Obama to be A Liberal Reagan hence his appeal among Reagan Democrats, Independents and conservatives.  Bring them home Obama.

Sullivan, The Daily Dish, A liberal Reagan?

"From the content and structure of Obama's pitch to the base, it's also clear to me that whatever illusions I had about his small-c conservatism, he's a big government liberal with - for a liberal - the most attractive persona and best-developed arguments since JFK.

I fear he could do to conservatism what Reagan did to liberalism. And just as liberals deserved a shellacking in 1980, so do "conservatives" today. In the Bush era, they have shown their own contempt for their own tradition. Who can blame Obama for exploiting the big government arguments Bush has already conceded?"

And just as Carter branded liberalism in a bad way for a generation, so Bush and his acolytes have poisoned the brand of conservatism for the foreseeable future. When you take a few steps back and look closely, you realize that Bush has managed both to betray conservatism and stigmatize it all at once. That's some achievement.[.]

Obama is no lieberdem. Perhaps a misunderstanding of the parallel points Obama was airing. Re-read his position papers and examine his record. He does not shill for the GOP. Unlike Lieberman who is a Republican from surface to bones.  

WSJ via Thinkprogress has this: McCain may select Lieberman as VP.

Will Lieberman give up his Senate seat unlike when he ran with Gore?

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"