Barack Obama as FDR

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"Further, "national unity" has given way to the worship of individual cultural heritage and dozens of opportunistic organizations that seek to create a classes of "victimhood" for nearly every group except white Christian males or women who are pro-life."
Congrats on the new "victimhood" for White Christian males(only white?)and women (any color?) who are pro-life.
Oh Boy. There wasn't much unity and shared cultural practices between my half Irish, and half German family. Ah...but they were both white.
GET OVER YOURSELF. YOU ARE JUST AS MYOPIC, SELF INTERESTED, AND NEEDY AS YOU PERCEIVE EVERYBODY ELSE TO BE. BUT YOU ARE WHITE. AND FEEL ENTITLED, AND BLESSED WITH THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WAY.
Only time will take care of the likes of you.

Holly of AZ 10:22PM November 24, 2008

Just a little reality check... The US got out of the Great Depression not because of FDR but rather, in spite of him.
America became The Arsenal of Democracy in the late 1930's. Manufacturing power is what pulled the nation out of its economic pit and I might add, won the war against Fascism. That industrial strength and an united, self sacrificing, national will is what led to victory over the forces of darkness.
We no longer have the industry or the national unity. Industries have been gutted by draconian environmental regulation, greedy corporate executives, out sourcing of jobs and factories - and progressive elitists in education who, for decades, have scoffed at blue collar jobs as being beneath contempt to the nation's school children.
Further, "national unity" has given way to the worship of individual cultural heritage and dozens of opportunistic organizations that seek to create a classes of "victimhood" for nearly every group except white Christian males or women who are pro-life.
I know these truths are a bitter thing and so will be rejected by those progressive relativists on the left and Republican barons of greed on the right. And so, we will fail as a nation divided - As Lincoln and the Bible simply put it, "A house divided against itself can not stand."

R.L. Schaefer of CA 12:01PM November 24, 2008

Some economists claim that the policies of FDR prolonged and worsened the Great Depression. In any case, the Great Depression did continue for 7 years after FDR took office.
I am hopeful that we do not repeat history!

Kevin Moore of AL 11:24AM November 24, 2008