Reply #152: "The bottom line was that FDR was in a much better position to effect sweeping changes....

[pnorman]

... than Obama could ever hope to be." Quibble about other things, but that much is undeniable.

FDR not only had a FAR more compelling electoral win, but his "Economic Royalists" enemies were largely in shame-faced disarray, for at lest the first year. His potential DINOs, the later to be Dixiecrats, were still on board and in full populist mode. And a substantial wing of the Republican Party, the Progressives, were actively supporting much of his New Deal legislation. The American Liberty League, and that "Plot against The White House" were at least a year in the furure.

Please consider all that, before writing Obama off. Instead, give him some much needed support, "critical" as it may be, at least for the first half of this year.

(Full disclosure: I just turned 80 yesterday, so I my be foolishly biased towards my fellow elderly farts)