[Commander8]

I grew up admiring Reagan as a boy. Sure he was hamstrung by the Congressional Democrats and by the Country Club wing of the Republican Party, but he gave me an image of what Americans can and should be: tough, optimistic, slow to anger but not suffering fools lightly.

[mikeb704]

Sure he was hamstrung by the Congressional Democrats and by the Country Club wing of the Republican Party. . .

I sometimes wonder what he could have achieved had he NOT had those burdens.