Obama on Reagan in his book . Failures of liberal goverment?

[jackson_dem]

Has Obama ever explained this whopper from his book? What failures? Please tell. I thought what Democrats did in the 60's and Carter years were good things. Hardly "failures."

Here is the full sentence: "Reagan spoke to the failure of liberal government, during a period of economic stagnation, to give middle-class voters any sense that it was fighting for them."

For more context here is what he says after that: "For the fact was that government at every level had become to cavalier about spending taxpayer money. Too often, bureaucracies were oblivious to the cost of their mandates. A lot of liberal rhetoric did seem to value rights over entitlements over duties and responsibilities

So he believed 1. government was too big (what Reagan ran on) 2. the evil government bureaucracy was troublesome (Reagan ran on cutting it back) 3. Liberals valued rights and entitlements too much (Reagan ran on this too).

Which rights? Which entitlements? What failure? What in the Democrats' record does Obama believe did not give people a sense they were for common folks?

Read his book and you can see he is no netroots progressive. Democrat? Yes. The opposite of Hillary? Hell no.