Since the huge deficit was mentioned, I will ask what happened to it. I am a firm beleive that there are no true quick fixes in the economy. Reagan inherited a mess. Bush helped it along by continuing to lower interest rates and loosen credit. Clinton did the same and we saw the economy swing around. Bush 2 tried to lengthen the growth by continuing the same. Now we are seeing the economy collapsing again due to failure of Bush to slow the economy and find new areas to keep it growing. Obama is now stuck with a mess that I doubt anyone can fix. By the time we see it fixed, he probably will be long gone. In the end, like Reagan or not, he did eventually reign in the federal reserve and did help to quicken the end of the cold war. Its a toss up on his historical record. I personally think he did a lot of good, but that he also should have been impeached some of his foreign policy actions.