So where should I begin? How about the current president, Barack Obama. Here is a man that is about as left as you can possibly go on the political spectrum, yet americans can somehow realte to him. Why? Is it because of his race? Is it his background? Or is he just a inteligent, charismatic, great speaker? It certainly is a combination of all of those, amongst others.
For the first part of his presidential campaign, Obama was trailing Senator John McCain in every poll. The turning point was when Sarah Palin was chosen for the vp candidacy. Once this ignorant, unintelligent mother of five was tapped by McCain, the race was all but over. McCain shot himself in the foot every step of the way in this campaign, and this was the nail in the coffin. Obama was steadfast throughout the campaign, paling it safe and smart the entire time. What was his biggest criticism before selecting a vp? Inexperience. So he chose Joe Biden, a well seasoned senator. There were few slip-ups in Obama's campaign, such as the "lipstick on a pig" comment about governer Palin. But this was not nearly enough to stop the Obama machine.
McCain was simply too much like Bush. When you are on tape bragging about voting with Bush's policies 90% of the time, it's hard to separate from that. Palin, McCain's age, Obama's charisma, and McCain's similarites to Bush was what lost him the election.
Now we have Obama in the whitehouse. While he tries his best to paint a picture of a transparent presidency that is straight-up with the american people, it does not fly. He is simply another politician, out for power. He is, as I stated previously, the most far left President we have ever seen. His expansion of government has not gone without notice. The situation he has been in is similar to FDR's position.
The economy is in shambles and his argument is that we cannot allow the failing banks to go under. So his solution is to expand govenment into the private sector in order to save them. Is he a marxist revolutionary? Was FDR a socialist? Or are these men simply doing what they think is best to save this economy? When this is all over, there will be those that call Obama a hero that saved the economy like FDR, and there will be those that call Obama a socialist just like FDR was.
