Commentary

Obama is Repeating FDR’s Mistakes – Just Not the Way the Liberal Media Thinks

By Troy Senik
Thursday, July 01 2010

If modern liberalism triumphs among the professoriate, it may be because the left shares an instinctive bias with the academy: to lecture is better than to learn. And who better to embody this ethos than the nation’s professor-in-chief, Barack Obama, for whom obtrusiveness is next to godliness?

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