A great commander in chief abroad does not always make a great president at home.
That is the case when it comes to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. My cmnt: I agree with the author, Amity Shlaes, that FDR was a horrible president at home. As the transcript below shows he was a command-n-control, communist-loving autocrat when it came to battling the Great Depression, a depression that HE made great, by his domestic policies. Like Obama and especially O’Biden he handed out goodies from the treasury and by government policy to voting blocks who tended to vote democrat. My cmnt: However I disagree that he was a great commander in chief. He and his hand-picked generals made … Continue reading A great commander in chief abroad does not always make a great president at home.