I never thought I'd see the day,

[speak easy]

never thought I'd see the day, in my lifetime, when a sitting president was compared to FDR.



Remarks by President Biden in Press Conference, March 25, 2021

I predict to you, your children or grandchildren are going to be doing their doctoral thesis on the issue of who succeeded: autocracy or democracy?

We’ve got to prove democracy works.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/03/25/remarks-by-president-biden-in-press-conference/

[katmondoo]

1. I am 91 and I saw FDR in Biden. I was 14 when FDR passed. It was a sad day

[speak easy]

2. Hs health was failing,

he did not want to run for a 4th term, but all and sundry said he had to run for the war effort.

[SheltieLover]

4. I'm not neay your age, but I've always seen Joe as a modern day FDR

[Elessar Zappa]

10. I admire your generation so much.

Unfortunately when I was young the Reagan "revolution" was in full bloom.

[betsuni]

3. Well, Biden isn't going to put Japanese-Americans in interment camps.

That's for sure.

[aocommunalpunch]

5. Like Obama's Peace Prize.

Premature. Accolades come after the work is done.

[speak easy]

6. Agreed. And the New Deal was not The New Deal until after Social Security.

And that was passed after the 1934 mid-terms.

[scarytomcat]

7. yes he needs to rethink some stuff

a trillion dollar tax hike on the rich is not near enough the rate needs to go to 50%
his cannabis position needs some work... end to war on drugs it is personal freedom

[speak easy]

12. FDR did not raise the top tax to 75% until 1935.

[smb]

8. I Expect He'll Get (And Earn) The Peace Prize After Rebuilding The Western Alliance

I'm already picturing Sponge Blob Golf Pants having a meltdown when he sees the news, throwing something at the screen, and losing his prison TV lounge privileges.

[KS Toronado]

9. Love your "Sponge Blob Golf Pants", it fits him rather loosely.

[NNadir]

11. It is appropriate. The good fortune of our country has always been that...

...great Presidents have followed our most disastrous ones.

Trump was the worst President since James Buchanan, and I think we all agree that he does something to raise both Buchanan and Andrew Johnson from the title of worst of the worst.

I had my doubts that at his age Joe Biden could match his predecessors in undoing the damages of a horrid Presidency. I can cheerfully say that I was wrong.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. I read this cartoon as Biden seeing himself as FDR, not that the cartoonist or the rest of us do.

[speak easy]

14. As in

he is modeling himself after FDR, as many have noted.

Biden is using FDR as his role model.
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-using-fdr-role-model-160106455.html

in the middle of this esteemed group is a fifth portrait in a place of honor over the fireplace: Franklin D. Roosevelt. Biden, who will be the last president who lived during FDR’s momentous era, deeply admires our 32nd president, and it shows in both his style and way of governing.