Reply #29: We should view FDR through a sober lens [View All]

[Selatius]

He did many great things that make Bush pale in comparison, and I wish we had candidates with some of FDR's policies running today, but the treatment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War is one of the darker chapters in US history--a point of shame unbecoming of what America should represent, at least in the minds of some. I am not a Japanese-American, but as a fellow minority (Vietnamese, to be exact), I'd say he deserves credit where credit is due, but he also deserves criticism where it is due as well.

I'd say, though, that he does rank up there as probably the most popular in the 20th century, and if that is the rubric with which to measure, then yeah, he probably is the best in the 20th century. I only ask that people see FDR for the things that were done on his watch both good and bad. That is all I ask.