Obama is the new FDR! Hillary supporters would throw FDR overboard for a bully???

[Emillereid]

Let's Party Like It’s 1932
By Norman Solomon, AlterNet
Posted on April 21, 2008, Printed on April 23, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/83051/

Seventy-six years ago, to many ears on the left, Franklin D. Roosevelt sounded way too much like a centrist. True, he was eloquent, and he'd generated enthusiasm in a Democratic base eager to evict Republicans from the White House. But his campaign was moderate -- with policy proposals that didn't indicate he would try to take the country in bold new directions if he won the presidency.

Yet FDR's triumph in 1932 opened the door for progressives. After several years of hitting the Hoover administration's immovable walls, the organizing capacities of labor and other downtrodden constituencies could have major impacts on policy decisions in Washington.

Today, segments of the corporate media have teamed up with the Clinton campaign to attack Barack Obama. Many of the rhetorical weapons used against him in recent weeks -- from invocations of religious faith and guns to flag-pin lapels -- may as well have been ripped from a Karl Rove playbook. The key subtexts have included racial stereotyping and hostility to a populist upsurge.

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Barack Obama has the potential to become as great a president as Franklin Roosevelt -- while social and political movements in the United States have the potential to become as great as those that made the New Deal possible. I seriously doubt that Hillary Clinton has such potential. And John McCain offers only more of the kind of horrific presidency that the world has endured for the last 87 months. ........

[Windy]

1. This country is doomed.

the 527s are already coming out about Obama based upon the crap that Clinton threw at him.

When a good man doesn't have a shot at higher office because he is a threat to the powers that be and the money hounds, we can just flush our constitution down the drain.

It makes me heartsick!

[MoJoWorkin]

4. We are on the same page.

FDR wouldn't have fared very well today either, with "the powers that be," and the 24 hour talking heads feeding pablum to a compliant people.

[kwenu]

2. Hillary supporters are frequently confused about what they really mean.

Pay little attention to the "I won't vote for Obama" crowd until Hillary falls for good. Then see what they say.

[tokenlib]

3. I still think DLC members gather in secret in the dark forest....

...and burn FDR in effigy.

[Fresh_Start]

5. I think you do a great disservice to FDR

Obama is no FDR.