Those of us who followed Obama very closely during the 2008 campaign KNEW he was far more supportive of Ronald Reagan and his "transformative" policies than he was of FDR. As Krugman points out in his blog post for today, Obama wasn't above peddling the right-wing smears of FDR.
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It was there for all too see, but too many bought into the media hype this guy was the "change" candidate when in fact he was just as bad as any neolib Republican.
(H/T to commenter Mary Louise. That was an excellent catch.)
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