Reply #9: +1000

[frazzled]

I listened to the entire speech and felt the same thing: I've heard much of the same from him over the last several years. People like to think that because they weren't listening it never occurred. But the themes have all cropped up in his speeches on specific topics before. Framing it within the Roosevelt speech was new and lent historical force (though even that he's done in different ways before, focusing on how "doing things together" to better the nation and doing things that help everyone, not just the few, is good for everybody). Each time he gives a speech focusing on stimulative matters he has invoked this populist spirit.