Obama and a New New Deal

My take this week in the papers of the GPD (in Dutch), for example the Brabants Dagblad, yesterday. There are many significant differences (for example: the current crisis really doesn't compare in sheer popular misery and fear to 1932-1933), but what both men have in common is the determination to restore the bond between the people and their government, to reestablish government as a central (and: competent) force in society, working to make sure that the nation's founding principles have meaning for all citizens.