Quote Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
Says you.

But dont you think your exagerating things a bit here?
No, not at all. This country was in severe crisis when FDR took charge. When everything looks bleak, people are starving, and there is no light at the end of the tunnel...that is when revolutions happen my friend. If you look at what was happening in other parts of the world in the decades leading up to this you can appreciate why this is quite plausible.


I say just like those who say anyone would have dona as good a job as Bush on 911 that any president could have gotten us out of the depression and probabaly faster than FDR and any president would have won WW2 if put in his position. In fact it was the war that got us out of the deperession and gave him the presidency for four terms.
Anyone could have done as much as Bush did--it is not that impressive of a record. McCain would have done much better on 911 and thereafter. We would have gotten Osama in the first year, and quite possibly Omar too. Economically, he would not have busted the budget. If he had decided to go into Iraq he would not have done it under false pretences, nor would he have fouled up the occupation with an understrength force. He wouldn't have left Afghanistan is a state of suspended animation. More importantly, he wouldn't have divided this nation like the "Great Polarizer" has.

I don't think "any president" could have won WW2. FDR did what he could to put a reluctant nation in some preparedness for war against its own will. He managed to keep the UK in the show while we had stagefright.