...the American government dared to nationalize some of those companies and banks. Were Marx, Lenin, and Mao Tse Tung resurrected today, they would celebrate the sweeping victory over brutal capitalism...
Kings and queens have clung to the past before and humiliated themselves in public, but this time it was merely a United States president. Or what is left of him.
This crisis will enter history through the widest of doors, as it has blown out the flame of capitalism and the free market, and made the huge institutions of Wall Street rush to Washington to scrounge for rescue.
Yes, Americans will elect a president, one who will face both domestic and international situations of daunting difficulty, but will he enter the office with the requisite semblance of worthiness of it?