Reply #82: Well, that might be part of your your problem

[Proud Liberal Dem]

I don't believe that Obama ever tried to make himself out to be FDR (or LBJ). I imagine that we all wanted to get the Repubs out of the WH so badly that we were hoping that by electing Obama POTUS we'd be getting another FDR (or FDR-like) Presidency (even though FDR didn't quite start out as the revolutionary leader that he later became). I suspected that Obama was more of a moderate/centrist/pragmatist like Clinton (read "Audacity of Hope") and so far that seems to be more or less what we've got- which IMHO is still light years better than anything we got under Buscho.
I never expected Obama to come in and rip out capitalism by its roots and let the banks and auto companies die on the vine, immediately withdraw all of our troops from every country and shut down our military, and ram all of our pet initiatives through Congress. I also suspect that we'd be pretty much having some of the same discussions and disappointments had Hillary, who is even more moderate/conservative/hawkish on some issues, won instead (which I would've still supported). We'd all, of course, be utterly suicidal had McCain/Palin (or Palin/McCain) somehow eked out a win. The point is that I think that some people expected Obama to be somebody different than he really was- which isn't bad but a bit unfair.