Why Obama Should Channel the Gipper

Why Obama Should Channel the Gipper: "Forget FDR. Reagan is the presidential role model Obama needs now."

As Obama prepped for his presidency, many among the politerati suggested he study the opening months of Bill Clinton's first term, in part to avoid Clinton's early errors. But the new president might do better to look at the last time someone rode a grassroots movement into town and promised wholesale change. Reagan both wowed Washington and bent it to his will—at least at first—and he did so in a manner that veteran Reaganites say Obama can emulate and even improve upon.

(Via MotherJones.com.)