>That's what's happening now, isn't it? Please thank them for me for nothing.
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>The roots of todays ecomomic crisis go all the back to FDR and his New Deal. So please thank the Dems for me.

Now there is a reach back into the distant past. Most reflexive Republicans put it on Bill Clinton.

Thinking about it, though, FDR faced exactly the same situation Obama inherited. History remembers his "ceaseless, relentless tinkering" (wasn't that his phrase?) with the economy pulling us out of the Depression. It wasn't exactly like that. Nothing he tried really worked. The economy remained the pits for the first 9 years of his presidency. Then a wonderful thing happened: Pearl Harbor was bombed. Factories geared up with the war effort, everyone was at work again, and we entered an age of unprecedented prosperity that lasted for decades. I hope it doesn't take that for Obama to enjoy similar success.