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Jeffrey Lord: A Society of Beggars? Obama Battles Reagan

[Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author.]

Obama or Reagan.

In the end, that's the choice.

As the country enters the final week of what may be the most important election in a lifetime, these two presidents and their starkly differing visions of America are at the center of what has become a political earthquake....

An infinitely better understanding of both Ronald Reagan and the conservative principles he championed. An understanding borne of new experience for this latest generation as it struggles to grasp the hard reality of what Reagan himself learned the hard way: if socialism, statism, and government planning had the necessary answers to America's problems, those problems would have been resolved long ago....
Read entire article at American Spectator