Now, America is everyone’s promised land - by Jim Meek
A century ago, most of the summer people traveled here ( Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia) from south of the border. This week, all eyes were looking southward. How could any nation, even a wildly unpredictable one like the United States, produce a Sarah Palin and a Barack Obama in the same election campaign? In response to the crisis, Obama may well attempt to emulate one of his heroes, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who regulated the financial and banking industries during the Depression. With Roosevelt and Lincoln as his presidential ancestors, Obama has steep monuments to climb. And as if that doesn’t make his job tough enough, he also has to carry the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali. At least that’s my crackpot theory.
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