This President is why America today is run by warmongers and traitors!

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155. That's your opinion...

and I was never defending Reagan (just so we're clear on that).

I don't believe that the republicans got as much blame for the economic melt down in 2008 as they did for the Great Depression. The democrats did try some pretty aggressive legislation (health care was one of Clinton's biggest goals, and he got nowhere with it 10+ years earlier), it takes more than one legislative session to undo 30 years of right-wing 'America screwing'.

You must not have moronic right-wing friends and family on Facebook. I do, and as a result - I see what sort of things 'regular people' believe about what caused the recession. In a word: Obama. Of course after reading your post, I wonder how much you blame it on him.

There are problems that Obama faces that FDR didn't have to face. The biggest thing that he faces is the MIC ownership of the press. When FDR was president he ruled the radio waves - he had mastered the medium. The folks who brought about this last crash have much more control over what goes out to the public.

FDR tried to establish 15 Supreme Court justices because his programs were declared unconstitutional (New Deal programs) by the sitting conservative justices. So the idea that Obama could have done a better job with just one democratic controlled congressional session is absurd. It took years to turn around the economic policies that led to the Great Depression and if Americans hadn't blamed it on the republicans, it never would have happened. That, IMHO, is the big difference between then and now - not the leadership (or lack thereof) of the president. It's because of who controls the press.