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The grand Progressive realignment of America has been a staple of higher leftist opinion since the stock market crash of 1987, after which Newsweek devoted a cover story titled "the Death of Reaganism". The problem is, those policies generate income, which even the Nation and the American Prospect acknowledge.
Obama represents the latest permutation to rerout America into Progressive Nirvana, following in the footsteps of Kennedy, Mondale, Hart, Dukakis, Jackson, Gore, Kerry, and Edwards. His rhetorical gift helps in the key function of the Executive branch: to persuade. He can keep his campaign confined to tonality and win. McCain can be Bob Dole without the humor, a man who for electoral demographic purposes could have been in WW2, if not earlier.
As long as the electorate desires "change", the particulars are of less consequence. The most qualified and accomplished Republican who sought and achieved electoral office was a boy wonder engineer who was refined, widely traveled, and brought the world out of WW1 torpor and poverty. Herbert Hoover had numerous routes to stave off a severe recession, and did everything wrong. The result was tonality sent over the radio to a nation ill-clothed and fed. Franklin Roosevelt, if current times demand it, is Obama's antecedent.
Obama represents the latest permutation to rerout America into Progressive Nirvana, following in the footsteps of Kennedy, Mondale, Hart, Dukakis, Jackson, Gore, Kerry, and Edwards. His rhetorical gift helps in the key function of the Executive branch: to persuade. He can keep his campaign confined to tonality and win. McCain can be Bob Dole without the humor, a man who for electoral demographic purposes could have been in WW2, if not earlier.
As long as the electorate desires "change", the particulars are of less consequence. The most qualified and accomplished Republican who sought and achieved electoral office was a boy wonder engineer who was refined, widely traveled, and brought the world out of WW1 torpor and poverty. Herbert Hoover had numerous routes to stave off a severe recession, and did everything wrong. The result was tonality sent over the radio to a nation ill-clothed and fed. Franklin Roosevelt, if current times demand it, is Obama's antecedent.