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...scene was surreal on Saturday evening, when supporters of the triad of challengers - Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë, 35-hour work-week architect Martine Aubry, and youthful left-winger Benoît Hamon - waged vocal battle with Royal's backers during her address, which was characteristically thin on concrete policies. Lusty waves of booing as Royal spoke were followed by standing ovations from her supporters; jeers unleashed by her calls for a coalition with centrists were quickly challenged by Royal supporters chanting...
...epic battle of Reims was merely a prelude to the choice of a new head of the party. Final voting for the position of first secretary takes place Nov. 20. After dropping out of the race and initially refusing to back any of his rivals, Delanoë on Monday endorsed Aubry, who favors a more orthodox leftist counterattack on Sarkozy's neo-liberal, pro-market reforms that might also win support of Green and Communist Party voters who resent the PS's recent drift toward the center. However, it's uncertain that Delanoë's more moderate but now angry...
Perhaps the most apt comparison for Obama's circumstances would be Franklin Delano Roosevelt's ascent to power, as he faced similarly daunting financial challenges at the dawn of the Great Depression. Roosevelt, however, did not benefit from a protracted campaign in which to prepare himself. Instead, FDR found himself forced to pick staffers and cabinet members largely from his extensive network of former colleagues and associates, and did so somewhat haphazardly, under pressure from demanding tasks - such as rescuing the country from utter economic failure. Roosevelt's planning-on-the fly led to the creation of ad hoc "agencies...
...henchmen. Alpha Delta Phi, again at large in Cambridge after disappearing for nearly half a century, was also looking for new members. Their mysterious posters sprung up on campus, tempting worthy undergraduates with a “literary society” whose illustrious members included none other than Franklin Delano Roosevelt, graduate of the class of 1880, who is also a former Crimson president...
...with people and banking political credit that he can call upon down the road when things inevitably become more difficult. Maybe think of F.D.R. in March of 1933--I would argue that there really was never a majority of Americans who bought into the right-wing notion of Stalin Delano Roosevelt, because at a critical moment, F.D.R. established a kind of credibility ... God knows he was controversial. God knows he was polarizing. God knows he made mistakes. But that credit and credibility stayed with...