Obama is not embracing Hooverism.

Hullabaloo: "Mike Konczal has a good post in which he muses on the perennial question: why is the administration embracing Hooverism? I'm not sure he's come up with a better answer than anyone else, but it's a fun read." Obama is not embracing Hooverism. He is dealing with a genuine and reasonable fissure in understanding. People are ultimately responsible for their actions. States cannot substitute for individuals. But they can and should serve needs that are agreed to be beyond the ken of individual power to effect. Obama is embracing centrism and listening to both sides of a dialectic that will lead to a new synthesis that will be neither the New Deal or whatever vision digby associates with Hooverism.

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