Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111114:18:33:00
One thing that reagan had going for him, and i think you made this point, he loved the audience. he connected with them in a real way. seemed to come alive being in front of people in a way that barack obama doesn't, necessarily. he doesn't have that actor sense of connection or electricity between the character on stage and the audience. president reagan used his actor's ability to help frame the narrative for the 1984 reelection and told the story of a country coming back. the economy had been bad then as it is now, but he was able to tell a story that quaconveyed optimism that the country w...