[Hoot Gibson]

Just a history lesson for you Hoot, you are correct the recession did not end in 1936. The Quote above was during his second campaign in which he was reelected and was during his admin implementing the Second New Deal. Thus, the quote above does pertain because his policies and the becoming of an industralized nation pulled us out of the recession. Aparently you are all for big media because that is the only way there are people like you in this world. A misconstrude mind will lead you to an unhomley future. Just saying.

Also I have not one said Obama's message has been diluted. The fact of the matter is we never get correct information from the media. In example ACORN (Right wing media's coverage of) was partially accurate and partially innacurate. However, the mission of the company was sullied due to the false information presented. Can you not open your eyes for one second Hoot, are you that entrenched in Fox News and Glenn Beck to realize that our news cycle misrepresents America. You continue to act like I am pro Obama which, I am not. However, history does repeat its self and this current matter is a representation of that. As I said I am not confident that Obama will pull us out of the recession. But I do know that based on the policies that FDR put into place (much like Obama's) and the transformation of economic policy i.e (FDR to and industralized nation), (present day to an service sector nation). The foundation is there now our Administration must find the common relief for those policies and act upon then just as the late 30s early 40s. Its war time economics at its worse.

Just a history lesson for you - FDR did not do anything to bring this country out of the Great Depression (not "recession"). The US recovery lagged most other developed countries and I have no idea where you got the notion that FDR had anything to do with turning this country into an industrial powerhouse. That is what we were before the Great Depression and that was what we were after. Men like Ford, Firestone, Rockefeller, Edison, Tesla, and many others working in the private sector ushered in the industrial boom in this country. Government had nothing to do with it except it interfered much less in the pre-FDR days than it does under the industrial no-nothing 0bama.

BTW, I do not fault FDR for trying to spend his way out of the Great Depression because it was an unprecedented event. Modern day liberals should have learned from his mistakes. To FDR's credit, at least he put people to work building the country's infrastructure. Nancy Pelosi recently argued that unemployment benefits stimulate the economy. Tax cuts stimulate the private economy. Welfare kills jobs.

Please take another look at spending under 0bama - the graph that shows )bama adding as much to the national debt in two years as Bush and the Democrats did in 8 full years. Have you seen this point made on any of the TV channels or newspapers that you read? Let that graph sink in and then tell me that you really believe that 0bama has not received a fair shake from the media.

As for ACORN, it was not a "company." It was supposedly a non-partisan, tax-exempt organization. In reality, it was a corrupt, highly partisan organization that should not have received the first dime of taxpayer funding. The national media, including the conservative media was not tough enough in its reporting on ACORN and it was too late to save millions of wasted dollars. Now, the same scammers that worked for ACORN have formed new non-profit organizations and are setting themselves up to loot more money from hard working taxpayers.

One final point. I am not a big Glenn Beck fan. Because I work for a living, I rarely watch or listen to him. I like Fox News Channel but I decided that I could live without cable here in DC, so I probably watch FNC less than you do. Please do not let that stop you from making more unfounded assumptions about where I get information about current events and national politics.