To understand how Barack Obama sees himself and his presidency,
don't look to Franklin Roosevelt or Abraham Lincoln. Obama's
role model is Ronald Reagan -- and that is just what Obama told
us before he was first elected.  Like Reagan, Obama hopes to
usher in a long-term electoral realignment -- in Obama's case
toward the moderate left, thereby reversing the 40th president's
political legacy.  The Reagan metaphor helps explain the tone of
Obama's inaugural address, built not on a contrived call to an
impossible bipartisanship but on a philosophical argument for a
progressive vision of the country rooted in our history. Reagan
used his first inaugural to make an unabashed case for
conservatism. Conservatives who loved that Reagan speech are now
criticizing Obama for emulating their hero and his bold defense
of first principles.  And like Reagan, Obama seeks to enact his
program not by getting the opposition party's leaders to support
him but by winning over a minority of the less doctrinaire
Republicans -- espe