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Now Time Tells Us: Obama The New FDR
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 11/13/2008 7:10:02 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Remember back during the campaign, when the Obama folks and their MSM cohorts adamantly denied that their man was a liberal? How they would react with scorn to that National Journal study that ranked him the most liberal senator? Nonsense! Very misleading. After all, this is the man who doesn't believe in a red America and a blue America, but in the United States of America. Someone with a history of reaching across partisan lines [even if no good examples were handy at the moment].

So . . . remember all that? Well, forget it. Now that Obama is safely ensconced in his Office of the President-Elect, the MSM can let the [ill-concealed to many of us] cat out of the bag: yes, he's a liberal. Big time! In fact, Obama is nothing less than the second coming of the biggest American liberal icon of all times: FDR!

Time editor Rick Stengel proudly announced the news on today's Morning Joe, unveiling the magazine's new cover which portrays a photo-shopped Obama from that iconic photo of a jaunty FRR in his convertible, hand on the wheel and cigarette holder in place. With "Happy Days Are Here Again" playing merrily in the background, Stengel explained the story.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; bho2008; fdr; liberals; obama; obamatransitionfile; timemagazine
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1 posted on 11/13/2008 7:10:03 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Now Time admits Obama an FDR-style liberal ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 11/13/2008 7:10:46 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hasn’t done a damn thing, and he is The Messiah, JFK, FDR, etc...

This human couldn’t possibly live up to their ideals and I can’t wait until he falls on his face.


3 posted on 11/13/2008 7:11:22 AM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Bad news. The nation’s still suffering the effects of the old one.


4 posted on 11/13/2008 7:14:48 AM PST by Savage Beast ("Your grandchildren will live under communism." -Nikita Krushchev)
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To: autumnraine

“This human couldn’t possibly live up to their ideals and I can’t wait until he falls on his face.”

The unemployment is up. The market is down. What ever little improvement is the aforementioned will be feathers in Zero’s cap. MSM will give him a gold star no matter what he does.


5 posted on 11/13/2008 7:16:17 AM PST by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: autumnraine
When is it going to end? Every time I think this dangerous man will never be held accountable by the MSM, I then remember the Clintons.

I never dreamed the MSM would turn on Hillary.

I can not wait until the MSM wakes up from their acid trip and turn on their chosen one. It will be really ugly.

6 posted on 11/13/2008 7:16:37 AM PST by Glacier Honey
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yesterday, a caller on Hannity called him the 2nd coming of Abraham Lincoln.


7 posted on 11/13/2008 7:17:34 AM PST by luckystarmom
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Oh brother. This morning somone was comparing him to Andrew Jackson.
I hate the drive-bys.


8 posted on 11/13/2008 7:18:25 AM PST by jackv (Just shakin' my head!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Not only is he a Liberal but his middle name is also, believe it or not, Hussein.


9 posted on 11/13/2008 7:19:09 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (All hail the Obamasiah! Kneel before Obamohammad!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
FDR was a more or less of a fascist, and his policies prolonged the Great Depression.

Wouldn't surprise me one bit is Hussein really is another FDR ... with a side dish of infanticide.

0bama = Abortion

10 posted on 11/13/2008 7:21:26 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: autumnraine

Believe it or not, they were comparing him to Reagan on Fox and Friends this morning. Started my day off really bad.


11 posted on 11/13/2008 7:22:04 AM PST by ravingnutter
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

FDR’s policies made the depression worse. WWII was what got us going again, and nuclear weapons have made it impossible to recreate that. We’re screwed.


12 posted on 11/13/2008 7:22:24 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I think he might be a slow motion 9/11.


13 posted on 11/13/2008 7:23:45 AM PST by sierrahome
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Reagan!?!?!

He is the Anti-Reagan!!


14 posted on 11/13/2008 7:24:18 AM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I don’t know about FDR, but he seems more like a couple European leaders during the same time frame.


15 posted on 11/13/2008 7:26:27 AM PST by ssaftler (Imagine January 20, 2013)
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To: autumnraine

Obama and FDR, let’s see. They both smoke.


16 posted on 11/13/2008 7:26:59 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If the New Deal is back, I suggest we all become leftists so we can enjoy the same protection Bill Ayers gets. Say what we like, be guilty as hell and free as birds, and unlike him, “do enough.”

Too bad winter’s coming. It’s hard enough to get conservatives to protest, on a gorgeous day in May, never mind now. However, it is good practice for the breadlines we’ll soon be in.


17 posted on 11/13/2008 7:29:23 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Stop feeding Leftist education systems. Don't let your kids go there.)
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To: autumnraine
Obama is the American Gorbachev. The socialist system put in place in 1932 is collapsing. BO will try to save it just as Gorby tried to save communism in the USSR...he failed and so will BO
18 posted on 11/13/2008 7:31:04 AM PST by mick
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

One tiny difference, Obama will be there as we descend into the Great Depression2 - and it won’t resolve itself in 4 or 8 years.


19 posted on 11/13/2008 7:31:28 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Id you couldn’t figure out that he was the same filth as FDR the minute he opened his mouth you are pretty stupid!


20 posted on 11/13/2008 7:31:55 AM PST by dalereed
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