President Obama Determined, Upbeat Ahead of State of the Union

Reagan counterpart? Give me a break!
Yes, they are both great communicators – but Reagan connected with the people in a way Mr. Obama has failed to do.
Add that to the fact that he repeatedly lies straight at us, like we can’t see it!

I dislike both parties at the moment but one statement left me dumbfounded.
The article states, “We can also expect the president to address bipartisanship in his speech tonight. It’s clear that he is greatly frustrated that the overall tenor of Washington has not changed despite his efforts at outreach across the aisle.”
You have got to be kidding me. The country was divided under the globalist Bush and has become far more divided under Obama.
In my many years I have never seen the country more divided. Not even close. Reaching across the aisle? HAHA!! Right!
Bush = Obama = Clinton = Bush Sr.
But somehow they have us fighting each other
Wake up folks! Please!

Ronald Regan? More like Ronald McDonald.

This is what passes for journalist today?

Why not be upbeat nothing is his fualt or responsibility!

Obama = Reagan. That’s like saying that the state owning the means of production is equal to free market capitalism. It’s like saying Pol Pot equals Thomas Jefferson. That’s like saying ABC equals Fox News. Stuck on stupid!

Seriously, George? Grant didn’t come to mind? Carter? Hoover? Reagan would show up in my bottom three for presidents Obama is most like. Seriously.

obama will hopefully destroy reagan. reagan laid the foundation for the current economic mess…
here’s to hoping president obama is 10 times the president reagan was.

Obama is the polar opposite of Reagan. Government does not create wealth, prosperity and not the reason why America became a leader economically!

I am an Irish girl. I believe in reason & facts. When people lie to me I chalk it up to who they are, usually don’t confront them ( because I have a terrible temper) but I NEVER believe them again. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barrack Obama and the Chicago gang have lied to me. I am tired of bills with names that sound harmless and have a major impact on the economy, our Constitution and the right of the American people to make their own decisions on how they live. I want term limits,because power corrupts . Give me liberty over health care reform and anything else this government wants to “give” to me to “make my life easier”, I can take care of myself, just get out of my way.

Riiiiightttt!!!!

Huh? Obama is no reagan or for that matter even a Bill Clinton

George, I know what an Obama fan you are, but your “despite his efforts to reach across the aisle” comment is way over the top. I guess shutting the Republicans out of health care talks was really an inclusive plan. You guys seem to think the big government mentality Obama espouses is the answer to everything. I would rather see huge business profits where we can spend our money IF we choose than the shameful waste & fraud of our inefficient, ever-growing government that forcibly takes our hard-earned money.

There is no comparison. Reagan loved America.

Reagan still means something to this country. Don’t make silly comparisons.

He has never reached accross the aisle. how can he talk about this when he has shut out the Repubs at every step of virtually all legislation. Any talk of his efforts to be bipartisan is a bold faced lie.

Are you kidding me? I compare him to Hugo Chavez. Reagan and Obama are complete opposites.

Sorry, but Obama has not done a darn thing to sincerely reach out to Republicans. He started his term with big Democrat majorities and an “I won” attitude. I have not seen one shred of evidence that he has offered Republicans the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to policy discussions – instead, he says sign on to what Pelosi and Reid say, or I’ll malign you as the party of no. Sorry Mr. President, we’re not buying this nonsense anymore.

the problem is that no one wants to listen – talk about over exposure!

Obama=Reagan???? More like Obama=Jimmy Carter.

Obama is NOTHING LIKE Reagan. Reagan knew how to create jobs and loved this country.
“outreach accross the aisle”? Dems didn’t need ONE republican to vote for that healthcare scam…not ONE. They couldn’t get it done because NO ONE WANTS IT. It’s a big bipartisan NO on the healthcare scam. Dems didn’t even let republicans in on their backroom deals. They weren’t even ALLOWED to debate it.

OMG!!! The state run media at its best.

Worst analogy ever!!!

jen wrote: “obama will hopefully destroy reagan. reagan laid the foundation for the current economic mess…
here’s to hoping president obama is 10 times the president reagan was.”
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Then you’re hoping in vain, Jen. It’s the complete opposite. Obama isn’t even a single TENTH the leader Reagan was. Obama cannot ‘destroy’ Reagan, but he is doing a fairly decent number on himself.
Reagan is held in high esteem. Obama is not.
Reagan was a great man. Obama is a great, big FOOL.
They are east-west opposites. There is no comparison between Reagan and Obama (and that’s not good, for Obama).

Difference is that Reagan was pro growth, tax cuts, less regulation and smaller government. Obama is bigger government, higher taxes and more regulation. Mr. Stepkanopoulis, not even close on the comparison, you are better than this. I enjoy your shows.

“His efforts at outreach across the aisle” Maybe to steal someone’s wallet. His agenda of leftist extremism can’t even remotely be viewed as a moderate uniting force even by those most enamored by his cult of personality marketing. Granted this farcical type of “reporting” is far from unexpected.

First 2 years of Reagan…when he had low approval ratings guess what…Democrats controlled both Houses
First 2 years of Clinton…when he had low approval ratings guess what …Democrats controlled both Houses…Wow
last 6 years of Clinton when people thought it was so Great…Republicans controlled both Houses…
First 6 years of Bush when people thought it was so Great…Republicans controlled both Houses…
Last 2 years of Bush…when things were so Bad…guess who controlled both houses….you guessed the Democrats
Democrat’s left-wing, liberal agenda DOESN’T do well in a right center country
Also the last 6 years of Clinton people went from dial-up connections and modems to DLS, T-1 & Cable connections …Ebay & Amazon and their likes were born under Clinton’s last 6 years and eCommerce had its initial explosion…even Clinton couldn’t mess that up….people began online banking more

Reagan took a stand and made tough choices.
What has Obama done to show he has a backbone?

“Obama is the polar opposite of Reagan.”
Why is that you ask? He had a brain.

What exactly were Obama’s efforts to reach across the isle? Was is when he told them to shut up and get out of his way? Was it when they when they went in closed door meetings with special interests and democrats to write legislation with special deals for both – and shut the “other side of the isle” completely out of the process?

Obama is no Reagan. Reagan inspired a nation. Obama has disgusted the USA.

First he was compared to Kennedy, now compared to Reagan, when will this end? Unlike either Reagan or Kennedy, Barack Obama does not believe that free enterprise and capitalism is the individual’s best chance for economic freedom. Barack Obama is a man with very little world experience and even less business experience. Everything that Obama has learned or regurgitates was learned via text books. The man has no clue and a complete failure, so far as POTUS….

bipartisanship….reaching across the aisle? GIVE ME A BREAK!!! Who are you trying to fool?

I have to laugh when George S compares Obama to Reagan. No way, no how.
Reagan had ideas and convictions. Obama has caved in on every issue to Pelosi and Reid. Reagan would never do that.

Secret meetings behind closed, locked doors is not bi-partisan. Neither is not allowing anyone to read a bill before signing it. Having to bribe your own party to pass bills is extremely troubling. Reagan was a great communicator. Obama can’t talk without having a programmed teleprompter in front of him. George, you owe the Reagan legacy an apology. This administration is a very sad joke.

Next time you have lunch with “This” President, please convey the following:
1). No, it is not going to be easy. As difficult as it will be, you and your socialist view of what this country should be, will one day be gone.
2). Don’t expect an apology, just don’t let the White House door hit you in the butt on your way out. (Refer to number 1)
3). Does not even deserve a comment. Politics, BS, Politics, BS. Refer to number 1 and 2)

Do you tink we ae stupid. President Obama nationalized the auto industry, tried to nationalize health care, and is trying to demonize the banking industry.
President Reagan put the economy back in the hands of the working people and cut taxes. Just the opposite of what Mr Obama.

“We can also expect the president to address bipartisanship in his speech tonight. It’s clear that he is greatly frustrated that the overall tenor of Washington has not changed despite his efforts at outreach across the aisle.”
His attempts to reach across the aisle…Are you serious, if you mean to the communist socialist party of the United States that would be true. As for him being a good communicator, he’s not even in the same league as Reagan, seriously, there is no comparison at all. Pathetic. What a sad joke. His attitude towards us all can be summed up in that article by that egghead Joe Klein “to dumb to thrive”. He knows what’s best for us, we’re all too dumb…Let me put it in words you can understand, to paraphrase Patton, America can’t stand a loser, and won’t tolerate one. Obama is going to go down as one of the worst Presidents in our history. I hope I have a little change left once this fraud is done. He’s the worst…

To compare Obama to Reagan is like comparing Benedict Arnold to George Washington.
ABC News and George Stephanopoulos are a fraud just like the Scientists that lie about Global Warming.
I for one (I hope millions)will NOT listen to a word of this treasonous president tonight.

Really George… it’s time to join the rest of the country and stop drinking the kool-aid! FACT: Reagan will go down in history as one this country’s best presidents, while Obama will go down as one of its worst!

I think ABC should put 4 million dollars into a new website and ask us to pay for this great insight.

everybody should really calm down. The incredible partisanship we face in our nation today springs from our anger and taking things out of context. George is simply making two comparisons between Obama and Reagan (1) that they are both confident and positive-thinking presidents and (2) that each has had low approval ratings one year into their presidencies, mainly due to an economic downturn. That’s all. A strong majority of these comments do not directly address the content of the article, but blindly lash out at the President. You are allowed to argue that Reagan was a better president than Obama is so far, but is the anger necessary?

WTH did Owebama “reach across the aisle”?
He’s nothing but a cry baby.

“We shouldn’t expect to see any kind of apology from the president tonight.”
Oh, I’m sure we won’t! Anything bad that ever goes wrong under Obamama is evil George Bush’s fault remember…

If the President does not understand and feel the outrage and anger that the American people feel over what has been going on in Washington in the last year. (Mostly by the incompetent fools in congress) Then tonight he will miss a great opportunity to begin recovery and creating jobs and most important restore the faith of the people in our Goverment and elected officials.

First he was compared to Kennedy, now compared to Reagan, when will this end? . . . regularguynyc
You forgot when Newsweek said he was “sort of God”!

Obama is the biggest fraud ever to cross the political stage; he makes Hillary Clinton seem like she might be a human. I wish he would just shut up and go find a hobby before he destroys the nation. I am sick and tired of looking at this clown. Ronald Reagan? I think not!

The situation that Obama and Reagan find themselves in might be similiar, but that is where any comparison ends. Reagan knew that less government and less taxes was the answer. If Obama was intelligent, would he not learn from history?

Ronald Reagan governed California, one of the largest economies in the world, for eight years. As President he surrounded himself with captains of industry who were used to making critical decisions. Obama was a community organizer (is that like a boy scout or something?) and then one of 100 Senators for two years. Then he surrounded himself with professors and lifetime bureaucrats, many of whom never had a real job. And people wonder why we are now in this mess?

I just read excerpts of Obama’s SoU and find much I disagree with. It is NOT a unifying speech!
Obama is no Reagan and shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath. I respected & trusted Reagan – He was a true statesman who loved and cared for our country. I cannot say the same for Obama. He’s way in over his head and floundering and NOT a leader. He doesn’t even sense what we Americans want – He’s out of touch with the American people.

Reagan carried 49 states, and came within 4,000 votes of carrying the 50th. (Mondale’s Minnesota). Obama’s vision for America will never enjoy such support.
He is no Reagan, because he does not have Reagan’s deep love of, and abiding faith in, the American people.

I don’t expect Pres. Obama to turn around this economy in one year. Only the GOP, O’Keene, and other sheep would say/expect that. Pres. Obama is doing the best job he can with working with the party of NO.

Reagan just revived himself and then died laughing!

George, please enlighten us when or where exactly Obama has reached across the aisle! If you’re going to be a part of the media, do some research instead of carrying his water for him.

“The president expects tonight’s proposals to jumpstart job creation…” Umm, isn’t that what the $800,000,000,000 stimulus was supposed to do?

War is peace.
Slavery is freedom.
Ignorance is strength.
Obama is Reagan.

Obama is like Reagan. What a laugh. Is there any wonder main stream journalism is dying. Reagan loved our country and made it greater. Obama has shown no love for America and his policies are destroying the country. Let’s hope 2010 elections can put a stop to his misguided madness.

What socialist hand book did you pull this garbage out of?
Reagan is who gave us the greatest prosperity we have seen, George Sr. & Clinton got to ride the wave and look good, but it was because of Regan and his pro-America outlook.
P.S. Obummer is nothing…just nothing.
Jan says:
“obama will hopefully destroy reagan. reagan laid the foundation for the current economic mess…
here’s to hoping president obama is 10 times the president reagan was.”

November 2010. It’s coming…

George you are the reason why I watch Fox News

If I remember correctly, Reagan said government isn’t the answer to our problems, it is the problem. I guess it goes back to what the definition of is – is? because I remember Prez Obama saying something like government is the only solution to our current problems. Yeah, Reagan = Obama – it’s Greek to me but seems to makes sense to boy George.

This is just a put on. No one would ever believe that a sane person would say this.
Obama = Empty Suit to the nth power
A teleprompter for an “address” to 20 people–come on.

“It’s clear that he is greatly frustrated that the overall tenor of Washington has not changed despite his efforts at outreach across the aisle.”
You have GOT to be joking. What effort has Obama made to “reach across the aisle?” Absolutely none. I believe it’s this administration that adopts the “shut up and sit down” form of bipartisanship.

Health care reform is an attempt to have the government take over 1/6 of the economy of the United States of America. We have the best medical care in the WORLD and the government wants to screw it up. Register and VOTE in every election is the best way to get our points across. We also need term limits in Washington.

Reagan was for the Constitution and fought against Communism. Obama
is trying to destroy the Constitution and bring Communism to the US.
Yeah those are very similar aren’t they!!

It’s funny watching the liberals still hanging on to a hope that will be anything more than a failure. Tomorrow all the lib media will say what a great speech it was, but it won’t matter. America realizes what a weak fool Obama is. Just wait until he Dems lose in the fall – that will be the end of Obama.

Could he be more softball?

“He’s like Reagan?” Reagan was a statesman and a great president. Obama is a Communist who fooled enough people to get elected. He should be a 2-YEAR president–impeached in his 2nd year and then tried for treason!

Reagan loved and cherished his country AND ITS PEOPLE.Obama loves Obama.

Insulting a great man like Reagan comparing him to this empty suit. Seriously, the comparison is quite a reach even for this has been media organization.

George, are you living in an alternate universe.
Obama will never be Ronald Reagan’s equal. He is barely Carter’s equal.

George, I thought you guys hated Reagan. You called him the “teflon president” and an “amiable dunce”. You can’t have it both ways. Is this some sort of Machiavellian stunt to have a “reverse Reagan”? Good luck on this one….

This is “reaching across the isle”?
During his private meeting with congressional Democrats and Republicans on Friday, President Obama ended a philosophical debate over tax policy with the simple declaration that his opinion prevailed because “I won.”
Right … that’s Reagan.

lolol THAT IS FUNNY. He is awful, let him live in disalusion, luckily for us he is guaranteed to be a one year president at most.

George, I thought President Obama already had a Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs. Are you thinking of leaving ABC and apply for Gibbs; job? I think you should then maybe ABC could get a real reporter in there…not just a mouthpeice!!

Oba-Mao is a Maoist.
A far cry from Reagan – the patriot!

Hey, I know, how about the Great Pretender? Heck, I’d settle for Chase the Gardener.

I can see it, they both spent way more money than we had, ran up the deficit.

Obama = Reagan?????????????? Riiight!!!
Reagan quotes:
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help. ”
“I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‘fat cat’ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‘public-spirited philanthropist’. ”
“Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.”
“Government is not the answer to our problems. Government is the problem.”

Obama will have to rise to mediocre to get out of the hole he is in. Instead of speeches show me some results. Do what you said you would do.

Reach across the aisle? You must mean comments like this:
“But I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.”
Interesting way of reaching across the aisle.

I’m hesitant to even type a comment simply because ABC edits and blocks – so why waste my time. ABC simply sucks and their overall ratings verify.
Reagan = Obama ?? – what a total joke. I lived during that era and it was the golden age. Obama brings misery and lies. Reagan never lied. Reagan was a once in a life time leader and Obama is a complete joke that can’t even produce his papers nor his birth certificate.
If Regan was asked – it would have been on the executive editors desk at 6 am the next morning. ABC – give up news and leave it to people who care and investigate. Advice to ABC – close the doors.

Reagen believed in the power of America and the American people. Obama beleives he must change everything about America and the American people.

How soon we forget Reagan lovers. Not only did he raise taxes on the middle class but he also cut services for them as well as sweeping reforms cutting basic services for the poor and minorities. He was terrible for the little guy in financial terms. Anyone who applauds Reaganomics can applaud our current financial mess as well.
Reagan’s current day idolatry comes from his social values- not his brilliance with the economy.

This comparison is absolutely insane. Mr. George has just shown why ABC news and most of the media for that matter have completely and utterly lost touch with reality (and the ratings prove it.) There are some liberal ideologies that have merit. Unfortunately, they have let their hate of conservatism cloud their judgment so much that they cannot see the forest for the trees and cannot allow themselves to seek the truth.

Bipartisanship?
Republican health care bills blocked by the Democrats (which were introduced prior to Obamacare) with tax deductions for premiums, tort reform, and removing state barriers to purchasing insurance including:
H.R. 77; H.R. 109; H.R. 198; H.R. 270; H.R. 321; H.R. 464; H.R. 502; H.R. 544; H.R. 917; H.R. 1086; H.R. 1118; H.R. 1441; H.R. 1458; H.R. 1468; H.R. 1658; H.R. 1891; H.R. 2520; H.R. 2607; H.R. 2692; H.R. 2784; H.R. 2785; H.R. 2786; H.R. 2787; H.R. 3141; H.R. 3217; H.R. 3218; H.R. 3356; H.R. 3372; H.R. 3400; H.R. 3438; H.R. 3454; and H.R. 3478.

Obama. Resign. You’re not up to the task.

The FUNNIEST part is – Reagan was a Democrat who switched TO REPUBLICAN and the DEMOCRAT party is nothing but communists and ever knows it. Vindication is McCarthyism. How’s that feel NOW. LOL

Americans never understand when they have a great president. They prefer fools who front for the big corporations like Reagan (and to some extent, even Clinton).
Americans, You all have a GREAT President in Obama. His problem is that he is too far ahead of the pack. And the pack has no vision.
Anyway, your Supreme Court has just sold your government to the Chinese and Middle East money. And you in the pack are applauding it because you are fooled by your media into believing what is not true.
There is a reason why the world did not like Reagan. And guess what….contrary to what Americans think, people in the rest of the world are bright. Not only American lives and American thinking matters.

Mr. Obama told us way back in January 2008 that he wanted to be viewed at the Ronald Reagan of the Democrat Party. In as much as R.R. was the agent for change for the conservative movement, he wants to be the SAME agent for significant change in the name of the progressive movement. Apparently he has some of us duped into believeing he really IS R.R. Well, he ain’t … nowhere near

so now obama has george lieing for him – Reagan had much higher ratings that obama and as much as they try, there is nothing the msm can do to change it – so its obama liar being defended by georgie liar

Obama like Reagan? I think I’m going to puke.

Way back in January 2008 Obama told us all that he wanted to be viewed as the Ronald Reagan of the Democrat Party. Just at R.R. was the agent for change in the conservative movement, Obama wants to be viewed as that SAME agent for change in the progressive movement. His GOAL was to move America rapidly to the left, just as R.R. move America rapidly to the right. Well, R.R. he ain’t … but apparently he has some of us duped.

Teabags for everybody on ABC :D

Ronald Reagan’s regime started the longest period of peacetime economic growth the nation has ever seen. It was, in fact, his economic policies which created the foundation for the growth which occurred through the rest of the 80s, 90s, even into the 2000s. Democrats tried to rewrite the 80s as a horrible “decade of greed,” but nothing could be further from the truth. There is no way the policies Obama embraces will create half the opportunity and growth of those espoused by President Reagan. In addition, Reagan took control when the country was at a lowpoint in terms of confidence. We had an economy that was, arguably, even worse than today; hostages held in Iran for more than a year, energy crisis, etc. Reagan instilled confidence and pride in the American way of life. Obama talks down the country and its history at every opportunity. Reagan loved America; Obama wants to change it. Reagan praised the individual; Obama caters to groups. Reagan wanted less government; Obama believes it must be bigger. Comparing these two individuala is like comparing apples and dog turds.

Obama has accomplished (almost) everything he set out to do. That is if you view him as a Trojan horse out to destroy this country. VA, NJ and MA are
minor setbacks. In his speech tonight he will give more smoke and mirrors, trying to buy time to continue whatever
Trojan horses do.

Please read “New Lies for Old” and “Perestroika Deception” by Anatloiy Golitsyn, a Soviet defector. You will understand what Barry is trying to do to you. In short, he is measuring you for chains. Never let this man have what he wants. He is a hardened socialist/communist. A brainwashed socialist/communist.

The arrogance continues. I can hardly stand the sight of this do nothing, leftist, liar.

Yeah…he is an actor like Reagan, but he is not a president like Reagan.

Regan built a house in California and himself put in a restrictive covenant that said that no black person could ever own the house. That’s your great Reagan!
Pathetic people who loved him!
Reagan negotiated with the Iranians so that the hostages would NOT be released until he was sworn in. He negotiated with terrorists for his personal political image!!!!!

Quit being a mouthpiece for the Democratic party. Obama will never be like President Reagan. Regan meant what he said unlike this Socialist.

George, the difference between Reagan and Obama during their first years is that Reagan was actually trying to strengthen the country—not destroy capitalism, liberty and the Constitution. Is it that difficult to see the difference?

I thinks it’s time you journalist and politicians both get jobs out in the real world for a few days and call me in the morning.
Transparency was big to Reagan. Back door bribes and backstabbing is the way of this administration.
Wake up America! Silver tongue devils have taken over our Capital.

No wonder he is always talking down to us, ever notice his nose and chin are up in the air all the time?

You Lie!!

The man’s a con.
I LOVED when Congress laughed at his comment, “That’s why the cuts will start NEXT year.” It was even better than, “You Lie!”

You are seriously kidding me! His policies are the antithesis of Ronnie’s. He has gobbled up more for Government in 1 year. Ronald Reagan reduced government. This man is no Ronald Reagan. This man should not even be called President.

Obama said when he ran for office that America was the greatest country in the world and he was going to change it. This July 4th our nation will be 234 years old. You cannot expect him to completley destroy it in one year although he is well on his way of doing it. He has promised to bring the man who admitted to planing the 9-11 attack and asked to be executed to trial just blocks from where the deed was done. There are reasons for this, one is to expose in open court our vital national security secrets, to try to go after the Bush administration and open them up for prosecution, it will encourage more terrorists to hit us again. Obama and the Dems have blocked energy production in America to make us more dependant on Middle East suppliers and INCREASE our balance of trade defecit. He will try to grant amnesty to 30,000,000 illegal aliens to gain the voters he is losing from his own party and independents. He will also try to pass cap and trade to drive jobs out of the country into India and China and strip our money in new taxes to send it to Al Gore and people overseas. Also, he will not give up on health care reform until he has destroyed it and turned it into a Cuba style program.

Sorry, George your Democratic Party partisan view is showing.

Am watching the State of the Union.
This has to be the most arrogant, biggest liar that has ever held the office of President of the U.S. What a disgrace.

Ronald Reagan? Is this some kind of a joke? I have never seen a more slippery crew in all of my life. A group bribing each other and making deals behind closed doors so that I will be unable to choose a Doctor for my children. A President pretending he didn’t know a thing. Comparing this President to Ronald Reagan insults me.

ABC = STATE RUN MEDIA
What a joke. Can this ABC guy be serious at all? Reagan believed in our country – didn’t bow to communist leaders, worked in the private sector and was one of the greatest leaders of all times….. Oba-mao is exactly the opposite – he is a Socialist idiot that hasn’t learned from history and is the most arrogant SOB’s that I have ever listened to…. to quote Clint Eastwook…. “he’s a legend in his own mind” and that’s about it. He is a loser of a president and a total disgrace to our great land. Gorgie – please get off the payroll now and report the news….. State run media just doesn’t go over well in the U.S. of America!!! You have absolutely NO CREDIBILITY at all anyway so I don’t know why I even read the article – I guess it was to get the old blood pressure up so I could work (in the private sector) late tonight……
ABC = STATE RUN MEDIA

Ronald Reagan was proud of the United States.
Obama feels that its necessary to apologize to the rest of the world on behalf of the USA.

WHEN REAGAN SPOKE, AMERICA STOPPED AND LISTENED…

That finale of the State of the Union just underscores what we need to do in November. GET RID OF THEM ALL!

Obama has an uphill battle to even equal Carter. In fact, he would have to climb to collect whale dung on the bottom of the ocean!

TEA ANYONE?!!!!!!

lISTENING ON A RADIO, IT MADE ME LAUGH. HE IS SO POMPOUS AND SELF RIGHTEOUS, TAKING NO BLAME, BUT ASSIGNING IT ALL OUT TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE. Those nostrils are getting longer and longer with every word he emotes from high upon his throne.

roflmao!!! great piece of political satire!! wait, it IS satire, right????

sylvie…I didn’t say he doesn’t have the ability to be Reagan-esque… I’m saying he is the PRESIDENT.. I don’t think that’s “a lie”, and I don’t think anyone who watches Ms. Pelosi, thinks she’s not a “power-broker”. Did you get a free multi-million dollar trip to Copenhagen…(Invitations via Nancy?) Just facts, no judgment, just suggestions… Let’s not fight let’s build America….

Reagan and Obama should not even be mentioned in the same sentence. That just shows the level of education George Stephanopolous received in the Cleveland school system.

The only thing revealing in this article is the so called journalist’s delusional but steadfast resolve to make this liar-in-chief socialist look like he still has some shred of a chance to be successful. Only in loonyville. Don’t you get it? It’s OVER!

Reagan faced a congress and senate that was controlled by democrats. Obama had totally control of both houses and he still failed to achieve his agenda. George you need to think this through a little deeper.

Just watced the speech. Sadly on of the most partisan I’ve seen. How can a president slam the other party the say lets worked togeather. A great communicator doesn’t need a teleprompter to order a coffee at McD’s. Reagan was a great president and leader. Obahma is a rather poor politician.

Reagan Reagan Reagan – please people. Most of you probably weren’t even born during Reagan’s tenure.
The only thing Reagan was good at was public speaking & listening to Nancy. He was a seemingly-sweet grandfather type.
Politically his policies ultimately caused the financial crisis of the early 90′s and 2008.
To believe that Reagan the best president in recent history, you must also believe that the US was founded for Christians, whites & wealthy only. You also somehow must distort reality to convince yourself that the GOP & Reagan fought for the common working American. His policies did no such thing.
His failures were overshadowed by only one president – GWB.

Uhh… why in the he** didn’t he “urge them” to “act first” on job proposals before health care 6 months ago, 2 months ago, 1 month ago ? If he knew how to create jobs why hasn’t he done it yet? Why were there so many other things more important to him? I don’t think he or his administration have any idea how to stimulate jobs besides creating more government. What an obviously biased piece of trash this article is, but what else would one expect from Stephanopoulos???

Obama=Reagan?
George, You are so disillusioned, you really shouldn’t be writing a column.

Reagan was the best president of my lifetime and arguably the last century. He meant what he said and said what he meant. He inspired us not with threats or blame or parisanship. But with humor, honor and a sense that we the people were in it with him and he with us. Every two bit dictator in the world knew Reagan was good to his word, not so with this condescending, bow-happy politician. There, right there. Reagan was a statesman, Obama is a politician. Never forget that.

BO is is a 180 from Reagan.
Reagan said, “GOVERMENT is the PROBLEM.”
Obama Says, “Goverment is the ANSWER.”
Pass that joint BROTHER!

Dumb George! How long can you keep up the charade to prop this empty suit in the WH?

George, that sound you heard was any credibility you had leaving the building.
And you people wonder why we deride the mainstream press. We’re not as stupid out here as you think.

At this point, Barrack reminds me more of Carter than anyone else. Carter thought he could fix everything if he just worked hard enough. He didn’t trust anyone, and the result was, a huge mess that Reagan mopped up.
Here’s how Barrack could impress me:
1. Give the credit for the credit crunch to it’s true owners – The community reinvestment act by Carter, followed by Clinton’s thug’s that essentially outlawed common sense in lending. Of course Barney Frank, Greg Weeks and Mxine Waters deserve credit as well for ridiculing republicans in 2005 when they attempted to establish some common sense oversite over Fannine Mae. Turns out Franklin Raines, the only crook who has not testified on capital hill, got a free ride from his democrat friends. Disgusting….
2. Focus on market based reform in healthcare. Why can americans fly to india for heart surgeries at 20% of the cost of the US? If individuals were responsible for their own healthcare expenses, they would exercise common sense, not feel like they had an open checkbook to pay for stupid choices. Also, if a person would prefer to spend their income on fancy cellphones, new cars, tatoo’s or gold teeth, why should anyone have to pay for their healthcare. Let them suffer then consequences of their decisions.
3. Loose the racial overtones. Obama was supposed to heal racism, not take sides when one of his buddies, acts like Al Sharpton to a policeman. Get a grip “O”, you need to apoligize for that one. Too many law abiding individuals saw that for what it was, presidential racism.

How does “despite his efforts at outreach across the aisle” square with Dems’ closed-door sessions that were barred to the Republicans?

George, give it up dude! Obama in the same league as Ronald Reagan? You have been drinking way too much of the Kool Aid. Obama is the exact opposite of Reagan he could not even carry Reagan’s jock. I always thought ABC to be nothing short of a joke maybe that is why you are propping up the clown Barack Hussien Obama. I know Disney owns ABC but George you are not at Disney World. We can only hope that when Obama goes down you George go down with him!

I truly appreciate a program that was on recently called Lie to Me. Interestingly, Senor O’s face had a lot of intricate expressions which indicate lying, especially after a comment was done, he blinked incessantly. This is indicator of a lie.
I heard nothing this speech that was new, just a new way of presenting his social engineering ideas of “clean” energy (cap n trade), Health Care (apparently he was asleep during the MA Senate election) and attacks on Wall Street and the banks (govt takeover of the GSL program? Good God will there be more fraud than Medicare?)
Then, not only are we subsidizing Banks to stay afloat, but we’re gonna forgive GSLs that are 10 years old for Public servants and 20 years old for the private sector? Wake up America. At least the Dems have the right mascot, it epitomizes them.

The only solutions that the president can seem to come up with has something to do with the government being involved. Listen very closely, I DON’T WANT THE GOVERNMENT MAKING DECISIONS FOR ME!!! A government that is big enough to give you everything is also big enough to take everything from you. Those words sound familiar? For you to compare Obama to Reagan is insulting to the late Mr. Reagan. George has a almost wifely devotion to Obama along with that hag Nancy Pelosi. You both make me want to projectile vommit blood on my new $1500 TV.

Go watch one of Reagan’s state of the union speeches. Or his d-day boys of Pointe du Hoc speech. He read that speech off of note cards as he gazed around at his audience. You’ll see warmth and genuine love of country. He LOOKED at his audience, not at his teleprompter.
Reagan talked to the people, he didn’t lecture. What a joke to compare the two.

Oh, the American left and the MSM propagandists who support it. It is amazing how they have such a fondness for spinning their tales. Inevitably recalling with such fondness some iconic figure from the past whose greatness they now can ascribe to one of their rising stars.*****
Indeed, it has been well chronicled over the past few years that President Obama is either the reincarnation of Roosevelt (pick one), Lincoln, Martin Luther King, the second coming of Camelot or, as MSNBC‘s Chris Matthews stated during one of his more fawning moments, “the last Kennedy brother.” Now, a former top aide to President Clinton — masquerading as a journalist, no less — is suggesting Obama is the embodiment of Ronald Reagan.*****
Let me submit, this is not the time to cast this president as some mythological superman. He’s not a Roosevelt, a Lincoln, a King or a Kennedy. And to suggest for a moment that he may be a Reagan verges on being ridiculous, if not downright laughable.*****
Granted, he might one day be worthy of all the comparisons when historians have had an honest opportunity to weigh his record. For now, however, he is ill-served — as is the nation — by those who would make him out to be a legend before his time.*****
In the final analysis, let’s let Obama be Obama. Let his vision and abilities, not those of history, lead us and our country. And while we are at it, let’s not be conned regarding this year’s elections — or the need this administration and its propaganda arm obviously is feeling to position itself at the side of a conservative icon.

Personally I’m glad Obama is not Reagan. I guess Reagan might have been ok if you were wealthy. As I recall, according to Reagan there were no hungry children in America, I’m sure quite a surprise to those who had no food that night. If you were wealthy you didn’t mind all the cuts that left elderly veterans hoping their kids could scrape together enough money to each pay one of his bills. And gee, how great the economy was under Bush. Gypsy moths have longer memories than some people. It took years for the country to get in the shape it is now and people are ticked off because President Obama couldn’t move the stonewall of Republican retoric–politicians who care more about keeping their jobs, more about “winning back the house”, more about the next election than they care about doing their jobs and truly helping the American people. The lies and propaganda spread about health care alone is enough to make one wish we could develop a “non-party” where people could only serve one consecutive term, and could only make as much money as the average middle class person. Maybe then the only ones who ran for office would be those who actually cared.

Where does this guy dig up his information from? Have you ever taken a real good look at what this OHB is up to? Did he give ABC a cut in the stimulus package? Your article is totally irresponsible and completely superficial. In all honesty, George S, you ought to abandon journalism and go and work in a small business to understand what this potential socialist dictator is trying to do. He would never apologise to anyone since he is fast becoming in public what he already is in private – a dysfucntional narcissist with megalomaniac tendencies. He is incapable of bipartisanship and further,you have to ask what his real record of achievement was while he was a Senator because when you look at the records it did not amount to anything of worth. Having bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia and to the Emperor of Japan, and having told Turkey that USA is not a Christian but a mohamaten country we have his real measure. It does not amount to very much that is positive.
Indeed, he may be “upbeat” as you claim but most Americans aren’t. The only way he can get back into power again is if he employs ACORN to do his dirty work for him and fiddle the elections.

Obama’s speech represented something that the GOP and the media lacks – integrity. Obama admitted errors, someting I’ve never seen any Republican ever do, even though invading Iraq after 9/11 made as much sense as invading Paraguay after Pearl Harbor. Bear in mind too, that after Pearl Harbor, FRD did not give a tax cut to the rich.
The GOP,as assortment of Greedy Old Prostitutes, is the party of NO. NO solutions and certainly NO responsibility.

What is the deal with Reagan! HE LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. My goodness does anybody remember the Iran Contra Hearings…trading arms for hostages???? Passing off catsup as a vegetable is school lunches to save money. His hands were dirty too. He was no saint! Give me a break. After Reagans first year pols said he would be a one term president. He got eight years, bush got eight years and Obama deserves eight years too.

Timothy, Are you serious? After 8 years of pure venom against Bush I don’t think democrats have much room to lecture others on anything.

Did Obama approve Hillary’s ok, of 500 million dollars to Afghanistan to “negotiate with the Taliban”??
All I can say is, Afghanistan is soooooooo corrupt, and the State Department is, as well.

I can’t believe, all these people with their comment’ they don’t remember. who cost all these mass, to all people lost there jobs and there houses, they forget GEORG BUSH who cost all these mass?????

George: Did I hear today on CNN that the best financial growth in the last five years have occurred?

Ronald Regan???
Obamas name should not even appear in the same sentence as RR. I think he is more on the lines of a Jimmy Carter on liberal steroids…