I am an Obama Liberal [Kindle Edition]

Paul Siegel (Author)

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Product Description

The story of liberalism, starting with a 13-year old being inspired by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as he relishes living under the New Deal and is distressed by the conservative backlash that is scuttling the New Deal, and ending with a 91-year old's abundant praise for today's FDR: President Barack H. Obama.

Many old-fashioned liberals are unhappy with Obama. They want him to fight as Roosevelt did. They don't understand that the Left-Right battles of New-Deal days no longer apply because our society has been radically transformed. Obama understands this, and he applies different approaches.

The true political division today is not between Left and Right, but between those who fight only for their self-interest, be they Democrats, Republicans or Independents, and those also concerned with the common good.

President Obama works for the common good. He is the new type of liberal.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 383 KB
• Publisher: Learning Society Publications; 1 edition (September 29, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005R4O0EG
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #482,195 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

I am over 90 years old, and throughout my life I loved to write, in my younger years about technology and in my older years about public affairs.

I grew up in the slums of the Lower East Side of New York, went to CCNY and to Rutgers.

In the late '50s I was fortunate to work for Eckert and Mauchly, the inventors of the digital computer: the UNIVAC. I was so thrilled and excited about the possibilities of computers that I wrote the very first book on the subject, titled UNDERSTANDING DIGITAL COMPUTERS. I also wrote books about information systems and artificial intelligence.

During all this time, I thought it only natural to see the world of work and the world of pleasure transformed by the computer. But in the '90s, after I retired, though I had expected the development of the Internet, I was astounded to see how dramatically it changed everything: technology, industry, entertainment, culture, economics and international affairs.

The entire world changed but politics remained the same. Unlike other politicians, both Democratic and Republican, Barack Obama understood that politics must change too. This is why I wrote "I am an Obama Liberal."