"...you cannot argue with the man's astute ability to create the morning in America that he envisioned."

You can't argue with the fact that "morning in America" was an excellent sales job for a product that failed to live up to it's hype.

Others have noted the negatives about the Reagan presidency, and I have yet to read anything positive to have come from it. The idea that Reagan could be credited with ending the Cold War is idiotic. His presidency represents the worst of what our politics have become: sales jobs to a gullible voting public that will vote for whomever makes them "feel good about themselves".

The one and only thing the Reagan presidency will be known for is breaking the Democratic Party's decades long stranglehold on politics, by using the power of television advertising to sell the US voter a shoddy product: the Reagan Revolution.

We are living with the legacy of his regime, to be sure, as most of the bureaucrats who served in his administration are now in power again. Clinton was a Reagan Democrat. There is no sign that the Reagan Revolution has lost it's iron grip on political power in the US. The Republicans are bankrupting the nation, halted the process of much-needed medical research over their bizarre obsession with and development of a cult of the fetus, destroyed the American dream for the majority of US families, and have wasted their foreign policy clout being arrogant and domineering bullies on the world stage.

That is some legacy, all right.