Wow. Now Bernie Sanders, St. Bernie, is also FDR.

FDR was a Democrat, and a "red" he was not. Democratic policies by a Democratic President. Or maybe Bernie get to go retro now.

eom.

Some believe themselves above and beyond scrutiny and criticism.

We others think of ourselves as "Human, All Too Human."

Sanders is no FDR and the Democratic Party is not Herbert Hoover.

He just kind of got things done.

weigh them seriously.

Unlike at least two Presidential candidates at either extreme in the current day, he was able to change his mind without being impulsive and, um, well, crazy, and he had a healthy amount of charm well coupled with a certain willingness to hold his cards close to his chest as long as was necessary.

These properties were also well known in the case of Abraham Lincoln.

Both Presidents, FDR and Lincoln, made mistakes, some of which were grievous, but both Presidents are generally acknowledged to have saved their country by growing through, leading through and living through their times.

FDR also had something that at least one candidate in the current election cycle has; a brilliant spouse with a deep knowledge of politics and the art of negotiation. (For me, Eleanor Roosevelt was the greatest Democrat of the 20th century, well, no, not just the 20th century, but of all time; but that's just my opinion. Not a day goes by that I do not think of her.)

(Actually Mary Lincoln, though much maligned by some historians, was also brilliant and had a lot to do with who her husband became.)

And then there's, um, Bernie...

I am not comparing my candidate, Ms. Clinton, with FDR or Lincoln, but merely stating that both of these "greatest" Presidents were well served by strong spouses and this will help the second President Clinton navigate our country through very perilous times.

Have a nice evening.

hostile to PoC - depending on what PoC at the time bothers them.

FDR = Japanese Internment Camps for Japanese-Americans.

Sanders = against comprehensive immigration reform and dumping nuclear waste into the backyards of impoverished Mexican-Americans.

But that's where the similarities pretty much stop between the two.

Also, the liberals of FDR's time hated him.



Do these criticisms ring a bell? They come from the same quarters that have excoriated President Obama and what have lobbed the nastiest things about Hillary Clinton all throughout the Democratic Party primaries. Same movie, different actors.