Barack Obama Biography

Barack Obama Biography, (AFP) – As America prepares to commemorate 100 years since the birth of conservative icon Ronald Reagan, the embattled president Barack Obama is trying to exploit the political magic of his predecessor died.

Shortly after Obama’s branding of the November elections “beating” the White House proclaimed that he was reading a biography of Reagan, who occupied the White House 1981-1989 and died in 2004.

Like Reagan, Obama swept into office on a wave of political euphoria and promised to restore U.S. optimism and revive a sputtering economy – then suffered a defeat in midterm elections two years later, driven by high unemployment.

But Reagan, “roared back to a frisk landslide reelection in 1984 with an economic boom that led voters agree with him that was better than it had been four years earlier and it was” morning in America. ”

The actor-turned-politician-prophet supporters credit him with the Soviet Union down, reining in government control outside the U.S., and revitalize American business and global sense of purpose.

His critics portray him as out of touch awkward whose policies widened the gap between rich and middle class America in decline, and dug deep into the nation’s debt while embracing repressive dictators and rebels in their quest unpleasant consume anti-communist.

Rather than re-fight battles over record Reagan, Obama has claimed kinship with his point of view famous sun of the United States, though some observers see the current president of emulating the “Great Communicator” in their appeals to voters.

“No matter what the political disagreements that may have had with President Reagan – and certainly had my share – you can not deny its leadership in the world, or the gift of communicating his vision for America,” Obama said in a late January column in the newspaper USA Today.

“It was this attitude, this feeling of pride that the American people need more than anything,” he said in a brief essay on Reagan before the anniversary of his birth on February 6, 1911.

Obama also has used Reagan as a shield for their own policies – defending a sign arms treaty with Moscow control last year with the Republican leader’s emphasis that these agreements represent a “trust but verify” philosophy.

And the White House web site often quoted former Reagan attorney general, Charles Fried, who said that “the enemies of health law s have no ally in the Constitution?” – A direct rebuttal to Republican attacks.

It also echoes of Reagan in Obama’s recent State of the Union speech, when he called for a freeze on spending five years as he pushed for the new spending on infrastructure and education, and a review of the tax code.

“I am calling on Democrats and Republicans to simplify the system rid of the gaps in the playing field level and use the savings to reduce the corporate tax rate for the first time in 25 years -… Without increasing the deficit,” said.

The appeal recalled Reagan’s work with Democrats to reform the U.S. tax code in 1986 – a sharp contrast with the description of Obama, in his 1995 autobiography “Dreams from My Father” from his youth dislike Reagan, his “henchmen” and “Dirty Deeds.”

“Obama respects Reagan? S optimism and capacity for big issues, but share little in the way of public philosophy or subject positions,” said Thomas Mann, a political scientist at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

And Obama has drawn criticism from its allies on the left to praise Reagan, particularly heated attacks from Bill and Hillary Clinton in early 2008 when he said Reagan “changed the trajectory of America” in a way Clinton “no.”

Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, a champion of the American Left, acknowledged to AFP this week that Reagan “was a very warm person” who “connected with the American people.”

“But I think many of the policies that developed did a great favor to the middle class and working families of this country. And I think we can learn from serious policy mistakes and hopefully not continue,” said Sanders.

Asked what Obama might adopt the Reagan model, Salinas said, “I have no idea.”

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