A hundred years ago, Teddy Roosevelt gave a speech at Osawatomie Kansas that laid the foundation for the progressive movement. Here is the text of TR’s speech. It’s worth the read. Today, Barack Obama followed in TR’s footsteps with the finest oratory I have seen from him, as he identified and supported the progressive values of the 99% movement. I have been unable to find the complete video, but I do have a link to the text of the speech and four videos from some of my favorite commentators.

Here is the complete text.

Ed Schultz covered the story.

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Then he interviewed Jonathan Alter and Thomas Frank.

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Keith Olbermann covered the story with Robert Reich.

Rachel Maddow covered the Story with Sherrod Brown (D-OH).

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