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Can Obama Emulate Reagan and Clinton -- and FDR?
By Lou Cannon - Politics DailyAs a biographer of Ronald Reagan, I've been asked if Barack Obama can recover from the catastrophe of the midterm elections to win a second term, as President Reagan did in 1984 when he carried every state except Minnesota, plus the District of Columbia. In a post-election press conference after the Republicans won the House last week, Obama took note of what Reagan had done and also of the comeback by President Bill Clinton, who was reelected in 1996 two years after the GOP captured the House for the first time in 46 years. Obama might also have mentioned the president with whom he claims the ...
Dear Barack: Midterm Advice From Past Presidents
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailySo the relentless polls were correct and, if anything, underestimated the breadth and scope of the Republican gains Tuesday night. With a few exceptions, President Obama and his fellow Democrats got whipped -- but good -- in the midterms. The bad news for the White House is that it now must deal directly and on equal terms with House Republicans and their tea party backers. The president himself acknowledged his new political reality immediately. He called the soon-to-be House speaker, John Boehner, late Tuesday to talk about getting things done for the American people. The good news for the ...
Opinion: Mr. President, We Need a Real Jobs Program
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 9) -- Over the past year, the unemployment rate has hardly budged, now hovering at 9.6 percent, which translates to 14.6 million people who want to work but can't find jobs, with another 8.5 million who are working part time but want and need full-time jobs. And then there is the huge uncounted number who have simply given up looking for work. Economists and labor experts are calling our faltering economy a "jobless recovery" or, even more cynically, the "new normal." But whatever name you give it, it's an unrelenting disaster. And the Obama administration's continued pleas for ...
Citing FDR, Putin Hints of Return to Presidency
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Sept. 7) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday dropped his strongest hint so far that he might run again for his old job as president by invoking the lengthy political career of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The prime minister told reporters and foreign policy analysts that he hasn't ruled out running in the 2012 election and compared himself to FDR, the only elected American president to serve more than two terms in the White House. AP / AFP / Getty Images At left, Franklin D. Roosevelt. At right, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gestures as he meets with members ...
Sarah Palin: Running Against History -- and the VP Curse?
By Robert Schmuhl - Politics DailySarah Palin's fan dance -- will she or won't she run for president in 2012? -- teases money from supporters and seduces the celebrity-centric media. Yet, before too long, the former governor and her devoted followers will face a sobering reality. Should she seek the Republican nomination, she not only will confront several White House-minded candidates in her own party but also the unalterable facts of American political history. To be tactful about the subject: Voters haven't been particularly kind to losing vice-presidential nominees of either party for nearly a century. Interestingly, ...
Opinion: Is Obama Spurring Growth, or Knocking It Down?
By not in system - AOL News(July 8) -- Government can spur the private sector. That's the gist of the argument that's in the air this summer. This week, for example, President Barack Obama said, "we've got much more work to do to spur stronger job growth and to keep the larger recovery moving." Such spurring is often said to occur in a technical way, when government outlays have a so-called multiplier effect that invigorates other economic participants. The Obama administration has a second meaning for "to spur." It is that government entering an industry as a competitor will strengthen that industry and make it more ...
'Supreme Power': Jeff Shesol's Book on 1930s Court Has Deja Vu Quality
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyIt is altogether fitting that Jeff Shesol's magnificent new book, "Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court," is out and about after the release of the high court's controversial Citizens United ruling on campaign finance reform, and before the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearing for court nominee Elena Kagan. Shesol's important work serves as a solid narrative link between the past mischief that often has marked the court's role in political life and the silliness that surrounds the ramp-up to Kagan's hearing later month. His rich story also gives us some ...
The Kagan Nomination: Not Like the Good Old Days
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyOn March 19, 1939, moments before he asked William O. Douglas to join the United States Supreme Court, President Franklin D. Roosevelt told the brilliant administrator: "I have a new job for you...It's a mean job, a dirty job, a thankless job. It's a job you'll detest. This job is something like being in jail. Tomorrow I am sending your name to the Senate as Louis Brandeis' successor." Less than one month later, Douglas was sworn onto the Court, where he would sit in judgment on the American scene for a remarkable 36 years and 209 days, a longevity record then and now. The brief history of ...
FDR Kept Deadly Disease Secret, New Book Claims
By Sphere Staff - AOL News(Jan. 3) -- It's hardly news that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was not a healthy man as he led the nation during World War II. But aside from the cardiac problems that the public has known about for years, the authors of a new book argue that he suffered from a deadly form of skin cancer, and that it eventually killed him. In "FDR's Deadly Secret," authors Eric Fettman and Dr. Steven Lomazow, a neurologist, claim that a melanoma above his left eyebrow metastasized over the last four years of FDR's life and caused a tumor that killed him in April 1945. Fettman, one of the authors of the ...
Obama and His Enemies: The Once and Constant Opposition
By Lou Cannon - Politics DailyA young physician refers to the president of the United States as "the crackpot in Washington who is ruining the country." A businessman decries his "socialistic tendencies," another denounces him as a "despot." A banker claims the president is wrecking the banking system. The Republican Party proclaims National Debt Week and reminds Americans that deficit spending is passing a mountain of debt onto future generations. It is, one prominent Republican maintains, "the crime of the century." The target of these overheated condemnations is not President Barack Obama. Rather, these were routine ...
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