Reply #27: You need look at FDR's job's record during his first term.

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Coming out of the Depression, FDR had an abysmal jobs record during his first term. And FDR faced the same type of republican hatred and resistance that Obama is facing. It was only when FDR stood to be denied a second term did he take a more hostile stance toward republicans, winning re-election and ushering in a super majority of democrats in Congress. During and after the second term is when the New Deal that some many Leftists here on DU wax nostalgic about began. The question is whether myopic views of history by purists prevent another New Deal that will launch american into a secure future?

Obama's challenge is to start taking a hostile tact toward republicans. Recent actions that he took concerning agencies working around Congress to get jobs projects rolling indicates that Obama has in fact began to realize the same logistics that FDR saw after spending most of a first term trying to work with republicans to provide for the nations' best interests.