Obama takes risky stance against the rich

[Galraedia]

With the US economy suffering through its deepest slump since the Great Depression, the Obama administration has designed a political strategy to match, with echoes of the campaign rhetoric deployed by Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s.
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You know if you really look at history you will find that the Republicans are doing the same thing to Obama as they tried to do with Franklin Roosevelt.

[underpants]

1. How is it "risky"? How many times was FDR re-elected?

silly article

[Galraedia]

3. It's risky because...

Money seems to control everything in this country. The rich can easily spin it around and make Obama look bad. Take for example, Fox News and the Tea Party.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Risky, my ass.

He could come out 10 times more strongly against the rich and he would have 10 times more support from the public.

[RKP5637]

7. Definitely!!! He had millions upon millions of Americans with him in 2008, now

here we are, can't bite the hand that feeds him, that's how F'ed up our system is, so damn much money controlling politics, and who would expect any different, it's the damn way the system has decayed. We need a leader to really stand up and say F it all, but the hidden power would not then allow him to be president. IMO the democrats have caved in ...

[MannyGoldstein]

9. Bullshit

Elizabeth Warren tried that, and look at how poorly she's doing in the Mass. Senate race. It took her almost a month to crush all her meeker Democratic competitors.

[Kolesar]

4. This reminds me of the beginning of the Grange

when populism spread through rural America.

[fascisthunter]

5. what risk... he says lots of things... it's what he does that matters

[gratuitous]

6. If siding with the stated wishes of 68% of the electorate is risky

Then I hope Obama goes full daredevil. Despite the relentless machinations of Fox and the corporate overlords, large majorities of the public are in favor of policies and programs that disfavor the wealthy and work to restore more balance and equity to our society. Fox may have at long last reached the limit of its ability to demagogue America.

[RKP5637]

8. Agree!!! Millions would stand with him if he really bucked this

corrupt system. We've reached the point where really bold action needs to be taken, otherwise, nothing is going to change, it will just be band-aided over and over.

[MisterP]

10. yeah, but he's Coolidge, not Roosevelt

[woo me with science]

11. ...

[Safetykitten]

12. Printing posters, huh?