I hope you're not of the mind to agree with lines like "Too many people expected Obama to cure all the ills overnight." Nobody expected that. It's the "rainbows and unicorns" charge again. It's deriding straw men, and I'm sick of it.
Look, FDR didn't cure the Depression overnight. In fact, he never cured it at all. It cured itself when the war started, because that demanded enough deficit spending to get the job done. The entire New Deal programs put together were tiddlywinks in comparison, far too small to get the job done.
So why was FDR revered, even at the time? Because he showed he cared, because he put all his effort into getting the best he could, because he kept the goal in sight and constantly aimed at, because he didn't cower before political opposition but kept on pushing, even when defeated again and again. (The Supreme Court was a thorn far worse than it's been for Obama: the Republican majority on that court didn't hesitate to do the kinds of things Roberts has quailed at doing.)
That's the likes of what Obama promised to do when he ran, that's the way he ran his campaign, that's what we expected in the crunch. Not achievement: effort.
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Date: 2016-02-05 05:40 am (UTC)Look, FDR didn't cure the Depression overnight. In fact, he never cured it at all. It cured itself when the war started, because that demanded enough deficit spending to get the job done. The entire New Deal programs put together were tiddlywinks in comparison, far too small to get the job done.
So why was FDR revered, even at the time? Because he showed he cared, because he put all his effort into getting the best he could, because he kept the goal in sight and constantly aimed at, because he didn't cower before political opposition but kept on pushing, even when defeated again and again. (The Supreme Court was a thorn far worse than it's been for Obama: the Republican majority on that court didn't hesitate to do the kinds of things Roberts has quailed at doing.)
That's the likes of what Obama promised to do when he ran, that's the way he ran his campaign, that's what we expected in the crunch. Not achievement: effort.