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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/ A new spin to an old joke: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Answer: To get to The Chamber of Commerce.
Ever the literate historian, President Obama evoked the turbulent history of the mid-1930s in his speech February 7, 2011, as reported by Rachel Maddow, without touching FDR's confrontational speech "welcoming [the] hatred" of big business, calling them "the old enemies of peace" who now "consider the government of the United States a mere appendage to their own affairs."
Americans need President Obama to more than touch on it, or suggest that it might be true, that the plagues afflicting our nation during Roosevelt's presidency also do today, because those who encourage "business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism and war profiteering" might require more than a small barnyard fowl to deliver the ultimatum, lest we as a nation never make it through this period of economic hardship to reach the other side.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/ A new spin to an... more
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Hmmm... Who's calling whom Hitler?
Yoo-hoo…America…where is the outrage? Where is the backlash to all the violent rhetoric and uncivil actions by these Tea Partyers and other Gross Baboon Republicans (need I name names) from last week? Where is everyone? Is there solace in silence. Is saying “tsk tsk” while shaking your head in dismay enough for you to show dismay? Dismay is for sissies. We need intolerance. We need an uproar. We need a groundswell of defiance. What do you think Nazi Germany was like in those very early years? Liza Minelli in green nail polish? Marlene Dietrich growling? Snap out of it kids. What good can come of this…and when I say this…I mean all the hate mongering coupled with the apathetic mood of our nation. Hitler rose to power when the German economy was beyond depressed. Sound familiar? And what do these Tea Partyers remind you of anyway? Let me…that would be Nazis. And what then would that make that half-baked, power-crazed, media whore lunatic Sarah Palin? Madame Hilter. Or shall I say Hockey Mom Hilter. When they say history repeats itself…it is because, sadly, it does. Only this time, look out liberals, which encompasses blacks, Jews and anything else beside uneducated, toothless white people. If Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s famous line, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself,” rings true, then now is the time to be fearful. Every pundit on every political chat show yattles on about how fearful everyone is because of rising unemployment. But fear not unemployment. Fear Sarah Palin and her Fascist management. All this rhetoric that she is spewing, be it at rally’s to reelect the octogenarian John McCain or at her gun toting, mass-hysteria inciting Tea Parties, is to bolster her in order to secure her TV ratings. Yes, this is like the movie Network with Faye Dunaway all over again. Only…much scarier because these are much scarier times. The tone of our nation now is much more like pre-Nazi Germany than when Network was made in 1976. We were all too high to be angry.Hmmm... Who's calling whom Hitler?
Yoo-hoo…America…where is the... more
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He was so close. For some reason, when Moore repeats the “Economic Bill of Rights” he leaves out, “The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad.” And so leaves himself standing there like a supersized target for, “Michael Moore is a pinko who hates America.”He was so close. For some reason, when Moore repeats the “Economic Bill of... more
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Obama will be featured on the cover of Time Magazine again (for what, the millionth time?), but this one may actually grab people’s attention and help their struggling salesObama will be featured on the cover of Time Magazine again (for what, the millionth... more
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So it has all come down to this.
After two years and a quarter billion dollars worth of ads, the pulverizing election has become a steel-cage match pitting rivals against each other – and not Christians versus Muslims, Americans versus Foreigners or Whites versus Blacks.
No, John McCain and Barack Obama have made the race’s final weeks an ideological proxy war between two presidential icons who still loom larger than them: Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt.
McCain promises to “follow in [Reagan’s] tradition and in his footsteps” while vilifying Obama as a 1930s-era “socialist.” Obama counters by invoking Roosevelt’s speeches and depicting the financial meltdown as “the final verdict” on McCain’s “failed philosophy.”
Mind you, neither personifies these predecessors. Obama’s moderate record is not FDR’s quasi-socialism, and McCain has renounced some of his Reagan-inspired dogma.
But all that is less important than the duo’s binary framing, which is why conservatives are so worried.
They see the cause and effect: As McCain doubles down on the right’s economic ideology, Obama is surging. Conservatives’ response is to insist that this is nonetheless a “center-right nation.”
The proof of this “center-right nation?” Republicans cite polls showing more Americans call themselves conservative rather than liberal. Of course those same polls show majorities support progressive positions on most economic issues.
Nevertheless, if Obama wins, expect more frantic talk from the fringe about how electing a guy billed as Karl Marx obviously means our country is more conservative than ever.
But repetition and revisionism can no longer cloak reality.
“As the Republican ticket continues to run against the very idea of progressive politics, they are sowing the seeds of the post-election realignment narrative,” writes The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder.
That would be the very mandate for “direct, vigorous action” Roosevelt described in his 1933 inaugural address. Should a President Obama try to capitalize on it, he will have nothing to fear but fear itself.So it has all come down to this.
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