Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.