A Wall Street Journal op-ed by Michael Medved posits that President Obama is not a radical, but rather is one of the host of FDR's followers who have taken over the Democratic Party: In what sense does Obama count as more radical than FDR, the patron saint of the modern Democratic Party? Where does he advocate government intervention and expansion more sweeping, costly or constitutionally questionable than the programs of the New Deal... President Obama not only conforms to the big government, tax-and-spend traditions that have characterized his party for nearly a century; he stands squarely in the center of the Democrats' current coalition. Medved notes that Hillary Clinton or John Edwards might have pursued the same agenda as Obama.  Indeed, Ms. Clinton did her senior college thesis on Saul Alinsky. To Medved's point, the 111th Congress just ended was dominated by such long-time liberal lions as Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, David Obey, Russ Feingold, and Barney Frank, all...(Read Full Post)