Where It Hurts

Forbes blogger, apparently unfamiliar with the Democratic Party primary electorate, compared Barack Obama to FDR as a means of insulting him. For that matter, he seems pretty unfamiliar with the broader American electorate as well. I seem to recall no less a figure than George W. Bush feeling the need to try to wrap himself in FDR's mantle while he tried to dismantle Social Security.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/08/where-it-hurts/46029/