Obama May Help Democrats’ Future in Shift to FDR
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Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Like Clinton or like Roosevelt?That’s the question people are raising about the kind of secondterm that U.S. President Barack Obama will seek.
The policy the president sets in coming weeks, andespecially the rhetoric of his public addresses in this earlyperiod, can give us the answer. Signs so far are that FranklinDelano Roosevelt will be Obama’s model, which portends negativenews in the economy but perhaps good news for the DemocraticParty.