February 13, 2009
Beyond Economic Revival
Which New Deal approaches are worth emulating?
His oratorical gifts draw comparisons with Martin Luther King Jr. His youthfulness and liberal centrism are reminiscent of John F. Kennedy. His hope is akin to Ronald Reagan's optimism. His gauntness, learnedness in Constitutional law, assemblage of a team of rivals, and appeals to our better angels recall Abraham Lincoln, on whose Bible he was sworn in. This pastiche of parallels, some the result of Barack Obama's own studied modeling,
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