What’s old is new again…

…or is that, “History repeats itself”? Anyway, it’s fer sure that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Why does it seem like those guys sitting around the table in Philadelphia PA 228 1/2 years ago had a clearer vision than most of our elected officials today?

Kieran Healy has an interesting snippet from FDR’s second inaugural speech that was appropriated by Bush during his recent State of the Union speech. As U2 stole back Helter Skelter from Charlie Manson, we need to steal back FDR’s still-remarkably salient words from Bush.