President Obama channeled President Theodore Roosevelt on Tuesday by traveling to the same small town in Kansas visited by the 26th president to deliver a speech on economic fairness.
Obama quoted Roosevelt several times in the speech, which set up the economic debate over taxes as “the defining issue of our time.”
Obama is battling Republicans over whether to extend a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits, which Obama would pay for by raising taxes on the wealthy. He argued Roosevelt was confronted with a similar situation at the turn of the last century.
“This is a make or break moment for the middle class, and all those who are fighting to get into the middle class,” Obama said in Osawatomie, Kansas. “I’m here to reaffirm my deep conviction that we are greater together than we are on our own.”
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