Better than FDR isn’t saying a whole lot, and the fact is that 0bama cannot measure up to even an FDR. FDR instituted a draft in order to expand the military and train some 15 million draftees in the spring of 1940, with co-operation of the republicans in congress. that’s quite a feat, considering that in spring 1940 no one, not Germany or Japan had attacked us, nor would either of those two (Japan, as it turned out) until 1 year and a half later in December 1940.

And when we were at war with both of them, FDR accepted no less than unconditional surrender from both Germany and Japan, and President Truman followed through in accepting nothing less than the unconditional surrender of both defeated imperial nations.

FDR prolonged the depressed economy with the some progressive policies Hoover had tried and failed with. He even worsened the depression in 1938, so if killing the economy, and with individual enterprise is the goal of both FDR, his minions, and Obama and his, then Obama just might be “bettter” than FDR by those standards.