Legal Commentary

Obama No FDR

By Big Tent Democrat

Ezra Klein on midterm elections in the first term of a Presidency:

The pattern here is obvious: Losses, and big ones. Except for FDR's first midterm and George W. Bush's post-9/11 victory, there've been no gains at all.

(Emphasis supplied.) A commenter responds:

But the relevant comparison is FDR.

This isn't just a "slump." And he had a *massive* mandate to address it, huge majorities, huge public trust. 70 million voted for hope and change. Millions of us are having our hearts broken or watching those we love have their hearts broken by this economy. If we had any reason to think it would be much better in 5 years, maybe you'd have a point. But we don't.

Yep.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 19, 2010 (boomark / email).