Wilson's Legacy to Obama Presidency

As one biographer described Woodrow Wilson: "A pince-nez, which emphasized his erudition, became his trademark," For those unfamiliar with such antiquated rhetoric, a "pincz-nez" is "pinched nose' eye glasses that literally pinch the bridge of the nose with no hinged arms to bend over the ears to hold them in place. Those glasses made Wilson image appear erudite, that quality of having or showing great knowledge or learning; scholarship--erudition.  

Woodrow Wilson wasn't bashful about showing himself to be feverishly erudite either, he was terminally egocentric that way. As the former Princeton President and a Professor, Woodrow Wilson once wrote about biographies: "We have our individual preferences in history, as in every other sort of literature. And there are histories to every taste."

To date, President Wilson (1913-1921) is still stuck in the 'good-not-great' category according to many historians.  In my own opinion he does not deserve that rating either, Wilson should only deserve a 'so-so' rating. Barack Obama in his speeches has admirably eulogized him as a "Progressive" political leader with visions he wants to emulate. Obama, himself, will probably go down in the history books as our worst President ever elected to office.  

Wilson's quick rise in politics eerily parallels Barack Obama with his brief experience as an Illinois senator and then catapulting onto the national stage a short time later.

It's one of history's great surprises that Wilson even made it to the White House. Wilson's academic career shows how that career bled into his politics. At Princeton, Wilson was known to murmur, "God save us from compromise." By his early 50s, he had settled in as the president of Princeton, happy, in his own words, to "inspire young men to go into politics."

Elected governor of New Jersey in 1910, Wilson proved an aggressive reformer and quickly caught the eye of national Democrats. In 1912, only two years after his official entry into politics, Wilson won the presidency—thanks largely to his skill as an orator - describes Obama's history too.

At the start of his administration, Wilson pursued an ambitious progressive agenda, including the modern income tax and the creation of the Federal Reserve. Then World War I enlisted him as a foreign-policy president. By the end of the war, he had found a new ideal to save from compromise—the League of Nations. My comment here is that the IRS, the Federal Reserve and the League of Nations, now the United Nations, were and are all bad ideas as they intrusively interlope into running personal, public and civic activities with too much Federal interdiction to control everyone.

One hundred years later the Woodrow Wilson Legacy still cripples our nation under its "Progressive" (code: "Socialist") government programs and his understudy, Barack Obama, is repeating the same failed policies and programs.

After the sudden death in office of Warren G. Harding (1921-1923) who proceeded Wilson's death, it took a great President like Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) to turn the Federal government around to curtail spending and waste to get things back on budget. The next President was Herbert Hoover, who was in office only seven months before the October, 1929 stock market crash. Then, FDR, Franklin Roosevelt (1933-1945) came into office wielding his oppressive liberal spending programs and literally was bailed out of the financial mess he created by entering into the WWII wartime economic boom.