Wingnuts' fear: Obama can be FDR

Now that McCain seems to be ready to lose, the right wing is now talking about how much they "fear" an Obama presidency.

And what do they fear?

To put the point differently, before the financial crisis, there was a realistic chance that electing Obama and a Democratic Congress would be Jimmy Carter in 1976 or Bill Clinton in 2000 [correction: presumably he means 1992 - IS] - presidencies that soon led to Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich. But with the financial crisis, there is a much greater chance that electing Obama and the congressional Democrats will be like electing FDR in 1932. Obama could use the emergency to transform the country in a very bad way. And, given the crisis and Obama's political skills, it is quite possible that the country would reelect him, even if he does badly - which, after all, is what happened when FDR was reelected during the New Deal in 1936. (In 1936, the unemployment rate was still 17 percent.)

http://volokh.com/posts/122368...

The horror! Obama could be a second FDR. Remember him? He was the terrible president that took the country out of a depression, brought social security, the 8 hour workday, and won WWII. Whose financial regulations brought a stable market until market fundamentalist undid them.

FDR pretty much created the modern American middle class.

And this is what they are afraid of?  

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