Reagan's election wasn't historic, and didn't represent a symbolic defeat of a people's historic oppression, so if course it wasn't going to be emotionally moving in the same way as Obama's was. Still, Reagan did have a lot of asskissing idolators in his day.
Obama was welcomed with enthusiasm by people simply because, unlike his predecessor, he wasn't psychotic and arrogant. The fact that he speaks in complete sentences probably also had something to do with it.
The "Obamessiah" meme is worn out and bogus.
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