Op-Ed By Reince Priebus via The Wichita Eagle
Plagued by near-daily comparisons to Jimmy Carter, President Obama decided it’s time to try emulating a more popular president. So the White House dug up Teddy Roosevelt’s 101-year-old "New Nationalism" speech and threw together a trip to the town where he delivered it in August 1910 — Osawatomie.
In their attempt to find a new campaign theme, Team Obama unsurprisingly ignored these all-too-relevant words from 1910: "A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics."
...But today, where there was to be "hope" there is hopelessness. And where there was to be "change" we are left longing for a change in direction. In short, the foundational promise of the Obama presidency has been broken.
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