| | Michael Reagan: Obama campaign was 'Reagan-esque'
Right-wing radio talk host Michael Reagan, who earlier accused President-elect Obama of socialist tendencies, on Wednesday called his campaign instead conservative, even "Ronald Reagan-esque," as his accompanying Fox panelists hailed Obama's "more centrist" cabinet picks.
"Things happen to you," Reagan said. "When you get elected President of the United States, and you're President-elect, and you start to get brought up to date every day on what's going on in the world, your life does change. And my father once said, 'You're elected President, but one day you become the President.' Right now Barack Obama is making that transition to becoming President of the United States. There's plenty of time to go after him after January 20."
"To anyone familiar with socialism," Reagan wrote in an October 30 column, "Obama's programs fit comfortably within the pages of Karl Marx's playbook, the root of which is the redistribution of the wealth, the key to the entire Obamian vault. What's mine is yours, and he's the middle man."
Obama is a "real student of history" that knows what it takes to build a successful presidency "for all Americans," said John Dukakis, former aide to Senator Kerry and son of 1988 presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. "He recognizes that these are extraordinary times. He needs great people. It really is a post-partisan time as well."
The following video is from Fox News' Fox & Friends, broadcast November 26, 2008.
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