My favorite Prez (F D R) returns with the NEW NEW DEAL! Hooray! GREAT TIME MAG COVER!

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been reincarnated as Barack Hussein Obama!
  

• John McCain will become the head of D H S! / or part of the new "Brain Trust"*

WAIT!  There's more!

• Doris Kearns Goodwin will become oh-fficial WHO EOP historian!
  

• The Chicago Mafia will make sure that ALL hot dogs will be Vienna, boiled,with hot peppers, celery salt, tomato, sweet relish, yellow mustard, pickles and red onions (must be red!) and on a steamed seeded bun! OR they will answer to (my cousin) Rahmbo Emanuel, who may be a new Harry Hopkins
  

and Rush Limbaugh, who has been losing his voice on the air today, will be SILENCED.

Ah, so.......

fair-ness = doc--trine?

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ps: I have not framed a time cover since the late mr. s. (Sinatra) in 1998

* *   FDR's Brain(s) Trust

The New Deal witnessed an increased role for intellectuals in government. The Brains Trust, a term coined by James Kieran, a New York Times reporter, refers to the group of academic advisers that FDR gathered to assist him during the 1932 presidential campaign. Initially, the term applied to three Columbia University professors: Raymond Moley, Rexford Guy Tugwell, and Adolph A. Berle, Jr. Within a few months, Basil ("Doc") O'Connor, Samuel I. Rosenman, and Hugh Johnson would join the group. These men would quickly help FDR develop an economic plan whose programs became the backbone of the New Deal: regulation of bank and stock activity, large scale relief and public works programs for people living in both urban and rural areas.

Moley, a professor of government and law who recruited the group, argued that a regressive tax (a flat tax all citizens pay: sales taxes, a flat tax on specific amount of salary, etc.) was the only way to rebuild the economy. Tugwell shaped much of the administration's agricultural policy, believing that the key to easing some of the depression's hardships lay in the ability of the federal government to address the growing imbalance between wages and prices. However, Berle rejected the idea of a planned economy per se, but suggested a "new economic constitutional order," that would include a larger federal role in the balancing of the economy.

In their first one hundred days in office, the Brains Trust helped Roosevelt enact fifteen major laws. One of the most important initiatives was the Banking Act of 1933, which put an end to the banking panic. After the Brains Trust defended its reform recovery program in 1933, it disbanded to make room for other advisers and lawyers capable of legislative draftsmanship.

For more information of the Brains Trust, visit the following web sites:

• "The New Deal Years" in Franklin Delano Roosevelt: President of the Century on the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute website

Copyright © 2003. The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers. All rights reserved. 

While Obama sends out the "Hillary contingent" to temper "the Palin effect", I ponder about NYT OP-ED "The Mirrored Ceiling" and ask, "why bother?"

(((((Read this Warner broad, and then cry, girls, cry your eyes out:

I'll start from the center:)))))

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/the-mirrored-ceiling/?em

"But in the past, it was possible to fill that need through empathetic connection. Few Depression-era voters could “relate” to Franklin Roosevelt’s patrician background, notes historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. “It was his ability to connect to them that made them feel they could connect to him,” she told me in a phone interview.

"The age of television, Goodwin believes, has made the demand for connection more immediate and intense. But never before George W. Bush did it quite reach the beer-drinking level of familiarity. “Now it’s all about being able to see your life story in the candidate, rather than the candidate, with empathy, being able to relate to you.”

"There’s a fine line between likability and demagoguery. Both thrive upon manipulation and least-common-denominator politics. These days, I fear, this need for direct mirroring — and thus this susceptibility to all sorts of low-level tripe — is particularly acute among women, who are perhaps reaching historic lows in their comfort levels with themselves and their choices.
"Just look at how quickly the reaction to Palin devolved into what The Times this week called the “Mommy Wars: Special Campaign Edition.” Much of the talk about Palin (like the emoting about Hillary Clinton before her) ultimately came down to this: is she like me or not like me? If she’s not like me, can I like her? And what kind of child care does she have?

“This election is not about issues,” Rick Davis, John McCain’s campaign manager said this week. “This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.” That’s a scary thought. For the takeaway is so often base, a reflection more of people’s fears and insecurities than of our hopes and dreams.

"We’re not likely to get a worthy female president anytime soon. "


((((Thanks, alot. )))))


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