the best single sentence in summing up Obama so far...

[statman]

"Instead of following the Roosevelt 1933 formula of squarely acknowledging a crisis and pledging an immediate plan of action with inspiriting calls for solidarity and national effort, he magnified the problems in order to try to create an appetite for a more radical turn to higher taxes and social benefits than the country wanted."

From: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q...czMzIwMWY2MjY=

[PaloAltoCougar]

"Instead of following the Roosevelt 1933 formula of squarely acknowledging a crisis and pledging an immediate plan of action with inspiriting calls for solidarity and national effort, he magnified the problems in order to try to create an appetite for a more radical turn to higher taxes and social benefits than the country wanted."

From: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q...czMzIwMWY2MjY=

How weird is it that The National Review, which spent the first forty years of its existence excoriating FDR and the New Deal (I was a subscriber in my youth and loved WFB's rips on both), now points to him as a model for crisis management? In fairness, I suppose it's more a reflection of their distaste for Obama than praise for FDR, but still.

For bettter and worse (and both adjectives are apt), I think years from now Obama's and FDR's approaches will be viewed as far more similar than the author currently believes.

[LA Ute]

How weird is it that The National Review, which spent the first forty years of its existence excoriating FDR and the New Deal (I was a subscriber in my youth and loved WFB's rips on both), now points to him as a model for crisis management? In fairness, I suppose it's more a reflection of their distaste for Obama than praise for FDR, but still.

For bettter and worse (and both adjectives are apt), I think years from now Obama's and FDR's approaches will be viewed as far more similar than the author currently believes.

I guess any popular president who's been dead long enough starts getting quoted by his ideological counterparts. Funny, no one quotes Hoover or Nixon . . . .

[I.J. Reilly]

How weird is it that The National Review, which spent the first forty years of its existence excoriating FDR and the New Deal (I was a subscriber in my youth and loved WFB's rips on both), now points to him as a model for crisis management? In fairness, I suppose it's more a reflection of their distaste for Obama than praise for FDR, but still.

For bettter and worse (and both adjectives are apt), I think years from now Obama's and FDR's approaches will be viewed as far more similar than the author currently believes.

I was thinking the exact same thing. I don't even know how the NR can reputably print this.

[il Padrino Ute]

How weird is it that The National Review, which spent the first forty years of its existence excoriating FDR and the New Deal (I was a subscriber in my youth and loved WFB's rips on both), now points to him as a model for crisis management? In fairness, I suppose it's more a reflection of their distaste for Obama than praise for FDR, but still.

For bettter and worse (and both adjectives are apt), I think years from now Obama's and FDR's approaches will be viewed as far more similar than the author currently believes.

My guess would be, that it's more of a "Dang. We thought FDR was bad." kind of thing. NR needed something to which to compare Obama and he's certainly not to the right of Reagan.