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what are the key differences and similarities between fdr and truman?

I’m having a hard time organizing all my information, maybe if I knew what to look for it’d be easier, I know both of them came from different backgrounds FDR flush Hyde Park, Truman from rural Missouri. Truman didn’t really let politics get the best of him, wasn’t easily influence I guess, that’s why he got the vice presidency b/c time magazine was calling him honest and all. but that’s not to say fdr was but he did buckle down because he didn’t want to lose support from the southern democrats, I cant remember did fdr always have democrat majority in congress, I don’t think he did I recall he didn’t have their support with the supreme court packing thing. I know, Truman didn’t have their support for much fair deal programs Basically I know some things but my brain has turned to slush and I’m forgetting key important issues, so would you mind please helping me out?

FDR’s background in government came from the Executive branch primarily. He was a one-time governor of the State of New York, and also served as an assistant Secretary of the Navy, so he had the mindset of leadership. Truman, conversely, came up through the legislative branch, the U. S. Senate, and so was more attuned to consensus style politics – negotiating with his peers in the Senate to write, modify and pass bills.

Neither man was immune to seamy politics – FDR made deals with unsavory machine-style politicians, and Truman came from Missouri which had probably the most corrupt political machine of it’s time.

Having been born to wealth and social prominence, FDR had a psychological confidence that Truman lacked. Truman was largely, though not completely, self-educated. He kept history books by his bedside and was considered one of the most well-read men in the Senate, despite his folksy small town manner.

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Barack Obama Approval Ratings Gallup

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Is the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs in denial over Obama’s slipping popularity?

A White House spokesman dismissed polling that shows President Barack Obama’s approval rating at a new low.

A Gallup poll released Monday showed that Obama’s overall approval rating dropped to 47 percent — the lowest during his presidency.

On Tuesday morning, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs compared the poll to a child’s artwork.

Gibbs was specifically referring to the trend line, which shows Obama’s approval ratings declining. Gibbs noted “a 6-year-old with a crayon could do something a lot like that.”

The president’s approval ratings have declined throughout the year as debates over healthcare reform and Afghanistan have started to take their toll on Obama’s popularity.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/71123-white-house-downplays-new-low-in-obama-approval-ratings

Have you heard the “Runaway” song redone for Obama? I just heard it on the radio, its hilarious.
You will soon see, after 2010 elections, all of Obama`s little rats, such as Gibbs, Rhom & Gaithner, abandoning ship. I wonder what Hillary is doing there still, guess she has to pay back Obama for paying her debts.

The Why Behind Obamas Approval Rating

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October 25 – Ukrainians vote for a new political leader – Building a United Ukraine

The Ukrainians were to vote on January 17, 2010 a new president. However, the Ukrainian parliament voted overwhelmingly on April 1, 2009, to hold the presidential elections of October 25, 2009, three months before the end of President Viktor Yushchenko in the first term.

Why vote in Parliament for this date for early elections? There is more response to this question. The leading group for the president as a threat in a new candidate who will win more time, and they want him off In this way, has not won many votes. Another explanation is that politicians in Ukraine, so far have not shown much more strategic leadership and lack of crisis management, and is not limited the top leaders of Ukraine, but the joint parliament.

Ukraine is the need for a change of political leadership in the current direction composed the President and the Prime Minister does not provide the direction Ukraine needs at this time.
Ukraine's political crisis is a fight between two heads of power and the country's future as a European parliamentary democracy. There is also a defiant opposition leader of the Party of Regions, which will make every effort to come to power, mainly because of personal ambitions. An opposition leader who has completed a major scandal back in Ukrainian politics.

Razumkov Center conducted a survey in the period from February 2 to March 5, 2009 revealed six presidential alternatives among the population, were:

Viktor Yanukovich
Yulia Tymoshenko
Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Volodymyr Lytvyn,
Petro Symonenko and
Yushchenko

Among these candidates, there is only one real option for a visionary leadership that helps build strong independent Ukraine that gives people hope for the future.
This candidate is an economist and lawyer for 34 years Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
He is the candidate who has risen rapidly in popularity in recent months and is gaining ground to their opponents for every day towards the presidential elections in January 2010. The other candidates have shown an ability to unite Ukraine is in a position of power or opposition politicians. More of the same medicine no longer work for Ukraine. As an international crisis, there is a need for new tools to enable Ukraine to prevent the same problems over and over again.

Mr. Arseniy Yatsenyuk STANDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF Ukraine a new UN

Arseniy Yatsenyuk can create a sense of national unity to bring together political front relatively scandal free and that represents the next generation of new Ukrainian leadership post-partisan.
Represents the transformation of the figure emerge in the political landscape of Ukraine that captures the imagination and the majority of voters of Ukraine in the January 2010 national elections.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk is the leader who is particularly well placed to save Ukraine itself. His meteoric rise is changing the political terrain of the forthcoming elections in Ukraine.
From Yatsenyuk has entered the race, it will a tough race for the presidency. But it can also promote the campaign and the optimism Ukraine and bring hope to people in danger.

Ukraine has an obligation government presented a balanced budget. The President must ensure that all politicians, regardless of the fraction of working together toward a common goal – saving Ukraine. To make the new leader must be willing to act on energy policy, especially Naftogaz and its inability to present the results positive capital and be able to open their operations to control the use of capital. Another issue that the president has to be careful is to manage the level of corruption in Ukraine.

Yushchenko and Tymoshenko have demonstrated the lack of consistent leadership and the ability to present a common political platform. Today, as I see it, is declared incompetent required as candidates for future political visionary leader of the presidency of Ukraine.
The apparent lack of adequate political office in the formation of the coalition between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko orange led to a disagreement about almost everything, since taking power in 2004.

The inability of opposition leaders to present a real alternative to the current leadership disqualifies also participate in the new leadership of Ukraine. Today, the main opposition party, the Party of Regions is more occupied to criticize the government and the president not to make a crisis plan and the anti-crisis solutions, instead of cooperating with management to create one.

CONSTRUCTION OF UKRAINE United visionary modern leader

The new president will be elected in October 25th needs trust for a large number of Ukrainian and is not considered part of the problem and not fatigued by a constant struggle in the political leader of the school director, the Prime Minister and President of the Supreme Rada. Leadership Ukraine must mobilize enough seats in parliament and the national government to forge an effective coalition and lead a movement for genuine reform.

Yanukovich faces a reaction of his party and polls for the last groping attempt to remove Tymoshenko from the prime minister.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk can explode like a unifying force to save Ukraine.

Political battles between Yushchenko, Yanukovich and Timoshenko demonstrate their inability in the right direction visionary policy in the cost of maintaining personal power.

Ukraine sinks and the results of surveys and Yatsenyuk popularity is growing.
As a former banker, Ukraine Minister Affairs and the speaker of parliament, 34 Yatsenyuk is known and respected in the political scene in Ukraine. He's young, relatively free and has the best Scandal opportunity to represent the next generation of Ukraine's new leadership post-partisan.

Yatsenyuk sober represent the main vision that can offer a new sense of realism that leads to Ukraine to clean your financial house.

He has enough charisma to inspire Ukrainians to take your destiny in hand and not look to Europe or Russia for "hello" or blame when something goes wrong.

Should be pressed to force Ukraine's oligarchs, who have ravaged the country in the same way as the oligarchs of Russia made the transition from state ownership to free enterprise.

Yatsenyuk has the capacity to develop policies appropriate energy-leaning Ukrainian striker modernizing its infrastructure, energy policy reform and restore its credibility in Europe.

Yatsenyuk articulate a vision that meets cultural and religious differences between Ukraine and Russia.

Demonstrated the ability to lead a legislature to advance things, and be able to run a parliament with a large number of members of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Party of Regions on their side.

The Ukrainian people is desperately looking for a new leadership fights of his political rival made a more attractive alternative.

POLITICAL STRATEGY – EXCHANGE OF UKRAINIAN CITIZENS

Yatsenyuk gives a clear and compelling vision of a new Ukraine, and a new theory of nation building, which differs from the failure of previous attempts.

Yatsenyuk has the ability to find alliances that allow you to finance your campaign anywhere for his newly formed party called the changes of citizens before the initiative.

Yatsenyuk form a program of the resurrection Ukraine.
Their political strategy is innovative, and consensus among the population of Ukraine and and in political circles. His party will provide solutions that not only splits the difference between the main political parties, but to be pragmatic in the proposal radical solutions that benefit all Ukrainians struggling under the harsh economic conditions. Not allow his party to become an alternative for treating mild centrist to do everything for all Ukrainians.

Yatsenyuk is seen as a political threat to the established political and Yanukovich and Timoshenko, who began attacking Yatsenyuk rather than ignore it. This will be an excellent development that gives more opportunities to highlight the differences in policy and further reforms, rather than engaging in smears staff.

Yatsenyuk can and will be difficult to deal with his detractors, can be so dirty.

Yatsenyuk said recently: "I have ambitions as political – I want to change the country and not want to change the National Bank. "

Yatsenyuk new organization change initiative to build its citizens against own independent base of disgruntled citizens and young people in Ukraine that are anchored in your central vision. Sections are divided Ukraine to other major and minor parties on the principle and politics to forge a winning coalition that the approach of January 17 elections.

Yatsenyuk road to victory will be the end of the politics of resentment between the Party of the Region and the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc, and build a new sense of national unity.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk represents the change that democratic basis modern Ukraine to the Ukrainian initiative themselves.

About the Author

He has a background as civil engineer and geoscientist. He has worked mainly within the oil and gas industry from the mid 1980s. He has written a few fictional novels as well as being the author of some professional litterature within oil and gas sector, he is now an editor of some web sites.

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Barack Obama Ratings President

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The Tax Lady Roni Deutch Analyzes the Tax Views of Sen. Barack Obama

Higher Taxes on Top Earning Americans
Senator Obama is a big believer in our progressive tax system – and he is not afraid to hide that. So one of the first things Obama is set to do is letting President Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts to selectively expire. He also advocates increasing the income cap on payroll taxes. This would essentially be a huge tax increase for taxpayers earning between $97,000.00 and $250,000.00, which goes against Obama’s prior commitment to not raise taxes on individuals making less than $250,000.00. Although higher taxes on the rich is a popular thought for many liberals, you cannot expect to only tax the rich and cut taxes for the poor. The American public is not likely to support unbalanced tax increases and this could harm his chances in the general election.

Close Corporate Loop-Holes
Another major component of Obama’s tax plan is to close hundreds of corporate “loop-holes” that allow massive corporations to questionably reduce their tax liability. “Instead of having all of us pay our fair share, we’ve got over $1 trillion worth of loopholes in the corporate tax code,” he claimed. “This isn’t the invisible hand of the market at work. It’s the successful work of special interests.” This plan would be highly efficient at creating new revenue for the federal government, but at what cost? Huge corporations are already moving factories and offices to countries with cheaper labor and more favorable corporate taxes. If the tax rates increase too much, then more corporations would likely move out of the country and it could result in thousands of lost jobs.

Senior Citizen Tax Breaks
Although it seems like an attempt to get the attention of the “senior voters” and the AARP, Obama is hoping to provide relief to millions of seniors struggling to make ends meet. His plan would eliminate federal taxes on seniors making less then $50,000.00 per year, which would account for $7 million dollars in total relief. It seems quite unlikely that the country would get behind this tax plan. I also have my own reservations – what about single mothers making less than $50,000 per year – that I expressed in a previous entry.

Make Work Pay Tax Credit
With his Make Work Pay tax credit, Obama is hoping to encourage Americans to take control of their lives, while providing tax relief to both low and middle income taxes. “I’d reward work by providing an income tax cut of up to $500 per person – or $1,000 for each working family – to offset the payroll tax that they’re already paying,” claimed Obama. “Because this credit would be greater than their income tax bill, my proposal would effectively eliminate all income taxes for 10 million working Americans.”

Capital Gain Tax Increase
Obama’s desire to increase the Capital Gains rate is probably the biggest actual increase of his tax plan. The current tax rate on Capital Gains is 15%, and Obama hopes to raise it to 28%. But although the Capital Gains tax rate is much lower today than it was a decade ago, it is being levied on a lot more people. Investing is not only for the rich, as there are millions of middle income Americans investing in stocks, retirement accounts, and mutual funds. In a time of a looming economic recession, we should be encouraging sound investment and savings strategies. Raising the capital gains rate is not going to do that.

Mortgage Relief for Homeowners
“Ten of the country’s largest mortgage lenders spent $185 million lobbying Washington so they could keep engaging in destructive practices,” claimed Obama. “And they got what they paid for. To help fix this problem Obama wants to create more accountability in the mortgage industry. In addition, he intends to pursue more tax breaks for current homeowners. Specifically, Obama announced intentions to “create a 10 percent universal mortgage credit to provide homeowners who do not itemize tax relief.”

Because it is a credit, individuals claiming the standard deduction would have access to it. Currently, mortgage interest is a deduction that can only be claimed by itemizing your deductions on your tax return. The credit would provide about $500 to 10 million homeowners in this country, mainly for individuals making less than $50,000 per year.

Revamp the AMT
Although Obama voted “nay” on repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), he does support a revamp of the tax. The specific details of his plan are a bit hazy, but Obama has claimed he would like to index the tax according to inflation so that it does not affect middle-income Americans. However, with dozens of social plans that cost billions of dollars to operate, the idea of reducing a tax that generates so much revenue for the government seems unlikely.

American Opportunity Tax Credit
One of Obama’s more popular tax views is to help make higher education more affordable for Americans by creating a credit to reimburse taxpayers for the costs of obtaining a college education. According to his plan, the credit would reimburse taxpayers on the first $4,000.00 they spend on a college education, and will cover two-thirds of the cost of attending a public college or university.

Immigration Reform and Undocumented Immigrant Taxes
Obama wants to reform the way the federal government deals with undocumented immigrants. Obama’s plan does have tax consequences, as it would not only require illegal aliens to file tax returns and pay income taxes, but would also require them to pay back taxes and the associated penalties and interest. If this idea became reality, it could account for millions of dollars in additional federal revenue. And, by not including tax amnesty in his immigration reform, Obama preemptively “plucks” a feather from the anti-immigration reform movement. It also preemptively stops American citizens from lobbying for similar treatment for their own unfiled tax returns and IRS back taxes.

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Barack Obama is the best thing that can happen to the Republican Party since Jimmy Carter?

1. Polls show that since the 2008 election, United States America is moving toward the right. According to Gallup, 40% of Americans identified themselves as conservatives in 2009, up 3% compared with 2008. This number probably increase the likelihood of approval of the work of Barack Obama continues to decline. Independents attending the Republican party, as shown in recent elections in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts. 2. FOX News Channel had its best year in 2009. According to Nielsen, the 10 most-watched new cable shows in 2009 all programs is FOX News. With programs like "The O'Reilly Factor," "Hannity" and "Glenn Beck" opens the way, one broadcast on the network has experienced double-digit growth in ratings from 2008 in the 25-54 demographic. I do not think that these trends will stop soon. As Jay Leno once said, the only achievement that Obama has done is to revive and unify the Republican Party. Hopefully 2012 will be 1980 all occasions.

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Why has Real Clear Politics stopped displaying new primary polls and only displays Obama vs McCain Polls now.?

I am talking about the upcoming contest polls.
They were always on the first page. Not the historical national polls.

Because Obama is our Democratic Nominee

Hillary is irrelevant

Hat off to RCP!!!!!

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