Yes We Can! Long Island 2012An interesting and perhaps worrisome analogy: Commenting on President Obama’s involvement in the New York state gubernatorial Democratic race, the writer points to conservative Democrats joining Republican obstructionists in 1938 to thwart FDR’s “mandate” to effect change via New Deal legislation. — Marvin
by: Susan Dunn
Source: NY Times, Oct 5
“PRESIDENT OBAMA is not only president of the country, but head of the Democratic Party,” said Doug Sosnik, the political director in the Clinton White House, commenting on President Obama’s aggressive move to quash the election hopes of New York’s deeply unpopular governor, David Paterson, and to pick favorites in gubernatorial and Senate primaries in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Virginia and elsewhere. But history shows that a White House push to intervene in state races is fraught with danger.
In 1938, in the middle of his second term, Franklin D. Roosevelt found himself stuck.
Read On: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/opinion/05dunn.html?hp
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