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In reply to the discussion: SELLOUT! This is NOT what we voted for! He ran on $250k and now is pushing $450K. Guess who is going [View all]NYC Liberal
(20,152 posts)The poster to whom you are responding is 100% on the mark. Obama had one of the most successful terms of any president in history in terms of legislation passed. And he did it despite unprecedented opposition from a right-wing GOP, which also controlled half of Congress for 2 out of 4 years in his first term and despite a 24/7 media finding fault with everything he did -- neither of which is something FDR faced.
Are we talking about the FDR who refused to support an anti-lynching bill because he needed Southern support? If it were Obama, you would be no doubt calling him a "caver" or an "appeaser" or "Repub-lite". How about the FDR that put over 100,000 Americans into prison camps based solely on their race? If Obama did that, I doubt anything else he did would matter to you; you would be SCREAMING bloody murder. I mean Obama got shit from some quarters here just because he killed Osama. FDR refused to desegregate the armed forces; Obama fought for the repeal of DADT and the equal inclusion of all Americans in our military.
Now, none of this is to say I do not think FDR is a great president, because I do. He is one of our greatest. But I am simply exposing YOUR double standards. If Obama had done some of the bad things FDR did, or made some of the mistakes FDR did, you would be excoriating him for it.