Re: From the voodvork out
The history of the past fifty years is extremely uncomfortable for the Left in America, and has been for quite a while. This is hardly the most blatant revisionism - I pulled up some history a while back on Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Depression, including a few of Roosevelt's own speeches. That didn't go over well.
It's pretty obvious why Gorbachev has to be the hero. The pieces don't quite fit into the worldview otherwise.
It's also evident that Reagan crapped bigger than the current occupant of the Oval Office, and that doesn't go over well either.