FDR goes to Wisconsin in 1934

[eridani]

http://www.thenation.com/blog/162788/fdr-went-wisconsin-battle-economic-royalists-obama-avoids-state-and-fight?rel=emailNation

Obama’s bus trip this week will bring him to an Iowa town within twenty miles of the Wisconsin border on Tuesday. That’s the same day that two Wisconsin Democratic state senators who sided with labor last winter face recalls mounted by the Republican Party and national conservative groups.

But Obama’s team has made no announcement of plans to cross the line into the battleground state.

Contrast Obama’s approach with that of the president who defined the modern Democratic Party.

Seventy-seven years to the day before Wisconsin’s recall voting, Roosevelt appeared at an August 9, 1934, rally in Green Bay.

The thirty-second president went to Green Bay to explain to a crowd of sympathetic but worried Wisconsinites that the economic battles of the moment needed to be seen in the perspective of the great American contest between a privileged few that engaged in the “private means of exploitation” and the great many that had “waged a long and bitter fight for rights.”

Roosevelt recalled that the Revolution was a struggle “against those forces which disregard human cooperation and human rights in seeking that kind of individual profit which is gained at the expense of his fellows.”

[KoKo]

1. Wisconsin is to be avoided it seems.....to be near the taint of Labor is verbotten...

because it would bring up ugly issues, I guess. :shrug:

[eridani]

2. It's reasonable for Obama to not have campaigned for state legislators

But why avoid the state altogether, especially after the recalls were a done deal?