Posted on 02/25/2009 10:39:18 PM PST by Steelfish
FEBRUARY 26, 2009
A Radical Presidency
By DANIEL HENNINGER.
When Barack Obama delivered his 44-minute acceptance speech in August among the majestic columns of Denver, it was apparent his would be an expansive presidency.
Some wondered whether his solutions for a very long list of problems was too ambitious.
On Tuesday, before Congress, he made clear across 52 minutes that the economic downturn would not deflect him from his Denver vision.
Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his Jan. 4, 1935, State of the Union speech, seeking authority to create jobs for persons then on relief.
Instead, the economic crisis, as it did for Franklin D. Roosevelt, will serve as a stepping stone to a radical shift in the relationship between the people and their government. It will bind Americans to their government in ways not experienced since the New Deal.
This tectonic shift, if successful, will be equal to the forces of public authority set in motion by Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. The Obama presidency is going to be a radical presidency.
Barack Obama is proposing that the U.S. alter the relationship between the national government and private sector that was put in place by Ronald Reagan and largely continued by the presidencies of Bill Clinton and the Bushes.
Then, the private sector led the economy. Now Washington will chart its course.
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INTREP
Hello, we have been living under socialism for a while now, thanks to Bush’s help give aways of the monument pieces of America at auction for “compassion” sake.
Now we have Marxist radical civil ar. Those thinking it’s not true and would not happen here, I say BS!!!!
War mongers and makers don’t care about the economy and welfare of people around resisting.
bttt
FDR's "State of the Union speech, seeking authority to create jobs for persons then on relief."
Interesting PC string - from 'refief' to 'welfare' to 'human resources' - the last being exactly the opposite of reality - 'the draining of resources'.
"This tectonic shift, if successful, will be equal to the forces of public authority set in motion by Lyndon Johnson's Great Society."
Perhaps another Charles Murray ("Losing Ground") will arises out of the ashes.
"Unless the GOP can discover a radical message of its own to distinguish it from the president's, it should prepare to live under Mr. Obama's radicalism for at least a generation."
That's optimistic. The Great Depression lasted from '29 to WWII and the Russian revolution from 1917 to 1989.
Bush was not any better. Wake up people. Do not let em good cop bad cop you any more.
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