Because President Obama is NOT evil; that is why many of us trust and defend him...

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115. FDR and LBJ deserve praise & I guess I shouldn't be surprised at your citing only the negatives

of those two presidents, which, in the case of FDR, especially, pale in the face of the great things they did

for the people of this country..

Although I'm less informed about LBJ's accomplishments than I am those of FDR, I do know

he fought -- and got -- very important Civil Rights legislation, and at least attempted a

"War on Poverty" through his Great Society programs. FDR has been named by presidential historians

as the 3rd GREATEST American president in history. He brought America out of The Great Depression

through a number of actions. One, he establishing a Federal Public Jobs program known as the WPA

which both built and beautified America while time employing the multitudes out of work.

He established Social Security which cut the suicide rate of the elderly in HALF. He abolished

the practice of Child Labor and, along with the first woman cabinet member, Francis Perkins, established the

National Labor Relations board which set minimum wages and working conditions, the 40 hour work

week, plus mandatory overtime for longer hours. All of this brought MILLIONS of Americans out

of poverty and built a Middle Class, the size of which, the world had never seen. Twenty years

into FDR's New Deal, America had THE LARGEST middle class in the World*

Even allowing for the fact of different eras, and some different circumstances, can you explain how PBO's accomplishments

thus far, come even CLOSE to those of these two men?


*We are now possessed of the SMALLEST middle class among all the western industrialized nations.