This post can be construed as harassment , your post history doesn ' t show signs of a problem , so I ' ll assume that this is a bad joke Please understand that us moderators have to take these types of comments seriously . <| sep |> They could ' ve just talked to him , or give him a paper without a name . <| sep |> 8 months is a lifetime in politics . Roosevelt entered office with enormous political capital . Americans of all political persuasions were demanding immediate action , and Roosevelt responded with a remarkable series of new programs in the first hundred days of the administration , in which he met with Congress for 100 days . During those 100 days of lawmaking , Congress granted every request Roosevelt asked , and passed a few programs such as the FDIC to insure bank accounts that he opposed . Ever since , presidents have been judged against FDR for what they accomplished in their first 100 days . You seem to think I ' m arguing Obama didn ' t do much good , or that he wasn ' t faced with a batshit crazy Congress . My point is much simpler than that broadly speaking , Obama was in a similar situation to FDR regarding the domestic front i . e . not counting the wars . They both entered office with the economy in absolute shambles due to broadly predatory speculation , unchecked greed , and panic in the financial and banking sectors . One made a series of bold and sweeping decisions that would change the fabric of the country ' s economy and thus it ' s standard of living and lay the bedrock for what would become the most prosperous nation in the world . The other made a series of steadytheboat decisions , where relief and recovery were bartered against the prospect of no tangible reform . Long term , this is these are the kind of things Presidents are remembered for other than wars , not marine reserves , environmental policy or the decriminilization of Marijuana which has still not happened at the Federal Level and has literally nothing to do with Obama other than him saying the Feds wouldn ' t interfere in states that have decriminalized , although in fact they continued to do so . Obama was a pretty good president , paricularly compared to numnuts we ' ve elected now , but he had the opportunity to really create lost lasting change in America , but he wasn ' t bold enough to do it . This has been the problem with the Democratic party that ' s been unmasked in this current election , they no longer stand for anything outside of the centrist status quo if it costs too much political capital .