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Creative history
Well I shouldn’t be surprise that someone that call paying more taxes patriotism invents new history, but yet I am. I have the feeling Biden knew that FDR was not the President in 1929, and that when he was a candidate he campaigned with pretty conservative agenda - and still he thought that it will be a good idea to say something like this:
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened,’” Barack Obama’s running mate recently told the “CBS Evening News.”
And although he got the history completely wrong, and the conclusions are as wrong as the facts - I don’t think it will damage his campaign even a little bit. And that is the real shame!
He looked familiar
I was worried about the increasing collectivist tone coming from the Obama campaign. The resemblances other are finding to FDR making Obama even less attractive candidate.
The general feeling of looming disaster makes Obama more likely to become a President, mostly after the shameful results of the “conservative”. With a cooperative legislature body he might be able to achieve big portion of his agenda which will make our recovery from possible depression even worse than the last round. unfortunately I can not argue that McCain is less dangerous.
Who would have believed?
Whenever I think that nothing will surprise me someone like Mike Gravel shows up and prove me wrong. The former Democrat Senator from Alaska and former candidate seeking the democratic nomination joined the Libertarian party. One of the reasons he gave for seeking the LP nomination is:
The fact is, the Democratic Party today is no longer the party of FDR.
Obviously, the "natural" choice from someone who seek the support of the Libertarian party is to claim the legacy of the President who has the “New Deal” and WWII tightly attached to his memory. This will guaranty a very short campaign….
But what can you expect from someone who is moving to the LP because he is tired of:
By and large, I have been repeatedly marginalized in both national debates and in media exposure by the Democratic leadership, which works in tandem with the corporate interests that control what we read and hear in the media.