Tom Roeser disagrees with Charles Krauthammer, whom he rates highly, in the matter of Obama’s being blamed if the economy continues bad.
I don’t believe [it] for a moment. Amity Shlaes shows how the FDR’s wild experimentation convinced the voters that at least he was trying. The compliant, supine media will be in Obama’s corner throughout and even if nothing is accomplished, his sunny visage of hope-hope-hope will be portrayed in Rooseveltian style.
They loved FDR too, of course, as John T. Flynn says in his 1948 Roosevelt Myth. Reporters “played along with this maker of news” as he pulled rabbits from hat, ex-Rooseveltian Flynn wrote.
Blithe Spirit 