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Obama Can Turn America Into a "Beacon Of Light Around the World"

3:34 PM, Jul 15, 2008 • By JOHN MCCORMACK
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Barack Obama says in his new TV ad "America's Leadership" that "We are a beacon of light around the world. At least that's what we can be again. That's what we should be again."

No word on when America stopped being a "beacon of light around the world." Obama's not known as a fan of the Clinton presidency. And in Dreams from My Father, he writes that he became a community organizer because he wanted: "Change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying on their dirty deeds. ... Change in the mood of the country, manic and self-absorbed." So it's safe to assume that Obama thinks the pall of "Reagan and his minions" covered the world in darkness throughout the 1980s.

Was America last a beacon again during the Carter administration? Is that what we can look forward to?

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