Reply #12: First we have the same diversity, just not in old media

[nadinbrzezinski]

radio was new media back then... today new media... you are using it... and there is quite a bit of voices on new media.

But the old media of the period was as fractured and controlled as it is today... in the new media, and some of the old media (papers, due to the nature of the business) you had voices of labor, (I get labor newsletters and action forms as well), and you had voices on radio, which again was the new media.

Second Obama IS a centrist by his record, you are repeating the often trotted lie that whoever is the Dem candidate is the most liberal democrat in insert legislative or gubernatorial seat here. This is a reality of American political life, our political scale is not as wide as other countries, and those elected to the Presidency, with few exceptions (see Bush) are not considered radicals.

Nos I go his record, and he is not a liberal... and until he was inaugurated and formally took office, Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York wasn't a liberal either... he was considered a safe choice by the famous powers that be. You might remember there was an attempted coup against him...

Facts on the ground forced FDR to do what needed to be done.. he was also much younger than his opponent by the way, another parallel, and I am willing to bet that Senator Obama will do whatever needs to be done, and he is also much younger than his opponent. Oh and being a centrist, that is the reality, and appointing centrists to his cabinet, gives him the maneuver room he needs. I don't expect the parallels to die there, and I expect his policies to be as radical and Keynesian as they will need them to be, but not a step beyond that.

He will do the same that FDR did, save capitalism from itself.