Obama Speech Echoes Teddy Roosevelt

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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/obama_identifies_the_defining033948.php You want a populist president, putting the interests of working families and the middle class above all? You’ve got it. For 55 minutes, Barack Obama made the case for progressive governance while destroying the foundation for the right’s vision. This wasn’t a “let’s compromise” speech. It wasn’t a “Democrats and Republican can get along” speech. And it certainly wasn’t a “I’m ready to meet my opponents half-way” speech. Obama’s given those speeches, he’s made those efforts, and he’s invested enormous energy in trying to close the gap between the parties. The president does not seem willing, though, to keep pushing a right-wing boulder that will not move. Instead, Obama is presenting the vision he believes in, and wants the American mainstream to rally behind it, whether radicalized Republicans like it or not. “This isn’t about class warfare,” Obama said. “This is about the nation’s welfare.” This NYT editorial got it right: “The speech felt an awfully long time in coming, but it was the most potent blow the president has struck against the economic theory at the core of every Republican presidential candidacy and dear to the party’s leaders in Congress…. Tuesday’s speech, in fact, seemed expressly designed to counter Mitt Romney’s argument that business, unfettered, will easily restore American jobs and prosperity. Teddy Roosevelt knew better 101 years ago, and it was gratifying to hear his fire reflected by President Obama.”

Can we bring back the Bull Moose party?  I think they'd win on the name alone.

did this POS fire Timmy Geithner or Larry Summers? No, OK that says it all. Who gives a phuck about this punks speechifing? He's all talk and Wall Streets bitch