Echoing the thugs

I must say, I get deeply disturbed when I hear one of our leading presidential candidates echoing Republican talking points. Obama:

I don't want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what's different are the times. I do think that for example the 1980 was different. I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think people, he just tapped into what people were already feeling, which was we want clarity we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing.

Sheeesh. Ronnie Reagan was a really bad president who was semi-senile through most of his second term.

I don't know. Despite co-blogger Kissweb's repeated assurances that this guy is great, I'm getting very uncomfortable with him.