Discussing Teddy Roosevelt’s progressive economic vision in Osawatomie, KS, Obama poked fun at attacks on him as a “socialist” by remembering those same attacks were lobbed against Teddy: “For this, Roosevelt was called a radical, a socialist, even a communist. But today, we are a richer nation and a stronger democracy because of what he fought for…”
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