The NYT moans bout Obama's failure to be FDR:
In similar circumstances, Franklin D. Roosevelt offered Americans a promise to use the power of his office to make their lives better and to keep trying until he got it right. Beginning in his first inaugural address, and in the fireside chats that followed, he explained how the crash had happened, and he minced no words about those who had caused it. He promised to do something no president had done before: to use the resources of the United States to put Americans directly to work, building the infrastructure we still rely on today. He swore to keep the people who had caused the crisis out of the halls of power, and he made good on that promise. In a 1936 speech at Madison Square Garden, he thundered, “Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.”
In similar circumstances?
When FDR gave that first inaugural speech, he'd been elected by 42 of the 48 states, his party outnumbered the GOP by almost 200 in the House, and by over 20 in the Senate.
These are not similar circumstances.
Those were the shoes — that was the historic role — that Americans elected Barack Obama to fill.
Actually, no, you don't know what I voted for.
