Reply #10: The midterms ensured that Obama will never compare favorablely with FDR.

[Hart2008]

Franklin D. Roosevelt - Second New Deal 1935-36

After the 1934 Congressional elections, which gave the Democrats large majorities in both houses, there was a fresh surge of New Deal legislation, driven by the "brains trust" of young economists and social planners gathered in the White House, including Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell and Adolf Berle of Columbia University, attorney Basil O'Connor, economist Bernard Baruch and Felix Frankfurter of Harvard Law School. Eleanor Roosevelt, Labor Secretary Frances Perkins (the first female Cabinet Secretary) and Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace were also important influences. These measures included bills to regulate the stock market and prevent the corrupt practices which had led to the 1929 Crash; the Social Security Act, which established Social Security and promised economic security for the elderly, the poor and the sick; and the National Labor Relations Act, which established the rights of workers to organize labor unions, to engage in collective bargaining and to take part in strikes in support of their demands.

http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/franklin%20d.%20roosevelt%20-%20second%20new%20deal%201935-36/id/1404818

Obama is no FDR.