Posted on 12/06/2011 6:32:58 AM PST by Son House
President Obama will give an economic speech in Osawatomie, Kan., Tuesday at a location the White House says it was very specific in picking and was meant to stir echoes of President Teddy Roosevelt.
Roosevelt spoke in the very same town more than 100 years ago on Aug. 31, 1910, where he presented his vision for America and the coming 1912 election.
The White House says it spent a month planning and choosing this location and that there are parallels between how working class families felt then and now.
Roosevelt gave what was called a "New Nationalism" agenda, talking about regulation on special interests (even using that term), and calling out for welfare, human rights and a greater role for federal government.
At the time the remarks, given to more than 30,000 people, had a wide-range of reaction, even some calling them "Communist and "Socialist," according to the Kansas Historical Society.
"This New Nationalism regards the executive power as the steward of the public welfare," Roosevelt said.
The Obama administration's take is that Roosevelt's Osawatomie speech was about a "fair chance, a square deal and an equal opportunity to succeed," reads a description on the president' schedule.
Adding that Obama will "talk about how he sees this as a make-or-break moment for the middle class and all those working to join it."
The word "fair" was used several times in advance of the speech. That's a word Obama has used multiple times, over several months in wrangling with Congress and GOP, saying the wealthiest need to pay their "fair share" in his jobs bill proposal that taxes millionaires.
"The president's speech will encapsulate the debates that we've been having this year over our economic policy and over our economic future," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in Monday's briefing.
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Hard to say. Who and what is the majority of American voters reading, watching and listening to?
If they're only source of news is the cable and network news along with the top-of-the-hour "news" on the radio.....
He evokes the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz to me...
Hey! That’s who Dorothy missed most of all...
Grrrrrr. Dammit.
The hell you say.
EVERYthing President Clouseau says and does is carefully planned and scripted.
Roosevelt = Bully Pulpit
Obamavelt = Bullsh*t Puppet
Or Pottawattamie, Ioway...
So we have that going for us.
HUGE DIFFERANCE btwn Limbaugh and this Halfrican Bastard, Limbaugh is NOT getting taxpayer money for his “enterprises”, the HB IS!
I dunno, I used to have him on three hours per day, and now I can hardly stomach the drek he serves between fleeting forays into truth of the political scene. I guess I’ve seen it become too much entertainment and too little ‘advanced conservative studies’ in the last few years.
Obama should be making a permanent stop in Leavenworth, KS (nearby), in the federal penitentiary.
Rush was talking about this just yesterday on his show.
Osawatomie has been crawling with Agents all week. Tickets (about 500 we hear) are “sold out” Some folks camped out to get tickets, but other came at noon and still got tickets.
Osawatomie has been crawling with Agents all week. Tickets (about 500 we hear) are “sold out” Some folks camped out to get tickets, but other came at noon and still got tickets.
How that happened I don't ever know.
It was TR's 3rd Party run that led to Wilson being elected and the diaster he ended up being as President.
TR is loved by Neocons and Rino's
Two birds of a feather:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08AKUqfldFQ
The 1912 election was the beginning of the end of the United States. Your comments about Teddy are spot on. All the socialistic tyrannts, FDR, LBJ, and Obama can trace the source of their political power and their elections to the mistakes made by Teddy Roosevelt, a self-centered egotistical ass. Wilson could not have won the election without Teddy's help. The Rockerfellers and Morgan funded Teddy's third party candidacy and Wilson's campaign to get the Federal Reserve Act. The XVIth Amendment and more importantly, the XVIIth Amenment, completed the coup d'état of the Constitution.
The Democratic Party is a cancer on the soul of America. The Democratic Party is UNAMERICAN. But it was Republicans who made it possible for the Democratic Party to bring about the downfall of the American Dream and everything that freedom made possible.
There is still time to save the United States. The Democratic Party must be defeated. And it is almost a certainty that it is only the Republican Party that can generate the political power needed to defeat the Democrats. The Tea Party alone may not be able to generate enough political power to drag the Republican far enough to the right to get the job done.
A small group of Freepers is trying to start the equivalent of the Tea Party on Steroids.
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