Is Obama the New William Jennings Bryan?

[JCMach1]

36, Lawyer, Orator, from Illinois originally, pushed period of transition from popular Democratic leader (Grover Cleveland). Also, he was of Irish heritage (which basically meant minority status at the time).


...At the 1896 Democratic National Convention, Bryan galvanized the silver forces to defeat the Bourbon Democrats, who supported incumbent President Grover Cleveland and who had long controlled the party. His famous "Cross of Gold" speech, delivered prior to voting for the presidential nominee, lambasted Western monied classes for supporting the gold standard at the expense of the average worker. Bryan's stance, directly opposing the conservative Cleveland and the Bourbon Democrats, united the agrarian and silver factions and won him the nomination. Just 36, the youngest presidential nominee ever, Bryan formally received the nominations of the Populist Party and the Silver Republican Party in addition to the Democratic nomination... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan#First_battle_for_the_White_House:_1896



One extreme warning from history here: Bryan lost to McKinley in 1896 because McKinley had a more compelling plan for economic prosperity.

[DemBones DemBones]

1. He could well be. The media attention he's getting tells me

that the GOP-supporting CEOs of the media corporations are telling their boys and girls to fluff Obama now because they're convinced McCain can beat Obama.

Now Limbaugh, Coulter, et al., are encouraging their people to vote for Obama to stop Hillary. They're also acting as if they hate McCain. Coulter even said she may have to vote for Hillary. Riggggghhhhhttt.

There is no way those right-wing extremists will vote for a Democrat in November. They want Obama to be the nominee so McCain can win.

[eallen]

2. Very different times. Bryan was a fundamentalist...

Obama is anything but a fundamentalist. The kind of people who voted for Bryan are now staunch Republicans who shop at Walmart.

[InsultComicDog]

3. Not hardly

Bryan was a lot more like Huckabee