revelation
is at hand”
— W. B. Yeats
“Obama stands revealed as a typical Democratic politician with the same laundry list of suppositions and policy stances that all his predecessors have shared: there’s an unbroken line from Obama’s speech all the way back to FDR.”
— Mark Heuring, conservative Catholic writer, on August 28, 2008 (St. Augustine’s Day)
“The United States presidential election of 1932 took place as the effects of the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression were being felt intensely across the country. President Hoover’s popularity was falling as voters felt he was unable to reverse the economic collapse…. Franklin D. Roosevelt saw that Hoover’s failure to deal with these problems could be used as a platform for his own election….”
— Wikipedia today