Charles Krauthammer says President Obama is not channeling Theodore Roosevelt, but his cousin Franklin, the 32nd president.
Krauthammer says FDR ran in 1936, in a bad economy, by scaring the electorate into believing the plutocrats were squeezing the middle class. In other words, it is nothing that Obama did that caused things to be the way they are.
"So what does he do? He has decided he is not going to channel Teddy Roosevelt. He didn't break up any trusts. Did he break up the banks? No. Did he break up any cartels in healthcare? No. On the contrary, he's going to centralized healthcare," Krauthammer said on FOX News' "Special Report" panel.
"He's channeling Franklin, the cousin, because he ran in 1936 in a bad economy, exactly like Obama, and what did he do? He ran against the plutocrats. He says the reason you are suffering and the reason that the middle class is squeezed, is nothing that I did. It's not the way I did a stimulus or ObamaCare, or anything in my administration. It's because of the rich. Like Jon Corzine I would ask. It's not a plausible argument. You can argue that there is inequality in the country, but it is not cause of difficulties. It's out-of-control entitlements, it's overspending, it's debt, it's an inefficient bureaucracy. It's everything you want. But I think in the end the argument is present he loses on it. But it's all he has got, that's why he is running on it," he also said.
When Obama spoke in Kansas earlier today he told the crowd "it is great to be back in the state of Texas." Watch Obama make the gaffe here.
Krauthammer took a jab at Obama, saying it is "hard to remember the names of all 57 states."
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