Washington - Franklin Roosevelt had the New Deal. Harry Truman had the Fair Deal. John Kennedy had the New Frontier. Now President Barack Obama takes his stab at wrapping his presidency under one great mantle.
Looking to inject his economic agenda with the grand sweep of history, he'll travel Tuesday to the small town of Osawatomie, Kan., the same place where Theodore Roosevelt a century ago summoned the nation to a new progressive era under what he called a "New Nationalism."
The choice of the site is no accident. After planning the speech for more than a month, Obama will say the times of sweeping change that animated Roosevelt at the start of the 20th century — including a growing gap between the rich and poor, with a middle class squeezed and falling behind — are much the same at the start of the 21st.
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Obama sounds like the Capt. of the titanic.
ReplyDeletePeople would be more apt to listen to him if he would just level with them.
ReplyDeleteObama is such a jerk and idiot!
ReplyDeletePlaying on the fact most people haven't looked too closely a TR; whole he was the first liberal President, one of his core beliefs was "The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight". That doesn't sound too much like the rich supporting those who don't want to work for theirs.
ReplyDeletehe used to think he was Lincoln...now Roosevelt. When, really, he's Alfred E. Newman.
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