Danny Gardner: Obama borrowing scare tactics from FDR?
President Obama officially began campaigning for a second term last summer with plans to raise $1-Billion for his campaign coffers. Incidentally, Mr. Obama raised more money from Wall Street in his first campaign for the office than any president. Yet, he derides big business as greedy hoarders of money who should be investing in America to create more jobs. Just listen to their anti-women, anti-environment, anti-union, anti-safety net, anti-minorities, and anti American rhetoric. Just open your ears to their support for flat tax idiocy. Just listen to their rejection of the reality of global warming. Just listen to their flat-earth thinking. From Bachmann with her mindless diatribes, to Citizen Cain’s confusion on everything, to Romney’s flip-flops on every single issue, to the religious fanaticism of Santorum, the craziness of Paul, the hypocritical cynicism of Gingrich, and not to be left out, the lunacy of Perry, the GOP has rejected almost all of the positions they once stood for and are ready to thrust us pack to not only Jim Crow, but maybe even to the Articles of Confederation. They are the do-nothing party of hatred, the poor house, the sweat shop, the pollution of the past, and the triumph of the inter-locking directorate, the monopoly, the trusts and rule of the few over the many. Whatever progressives they had from the party of Lincoln, which included folks like TR, Holmes, Dewey, Rockefeller, Javits and a number of others has long disappeared into the rebirth of the new Know-Nothings from the middle of the 19th Century. What was the message then and now? Should we turn our country over to these modern day flat-earth/flat-tax zealots? Should we reverse the clock back to not before the Great Society, or the New Deal, or the Progressive Era or back to the Articles of Confederation?Fdr Wall Street Journal - News
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RealClearPolitics - Obama's Re-Election Model Is FDR
President Obama is cozying up to the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, intending to make resentment of big business a central theme of his re-election campaign. Here he's following the lead of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who tried to convince the public that Wall Street was to blame for the double-dip recession that plagued his second administration.
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