The sixtieth anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's death was last Tuesday. I'm surprised that the MSM didn't make a big deal of it, considering that he was arguably the last (and perhaps only) great president that the Democrat Party has issued.

Not only that but the History Channel is getting ready to run FDR: A Presidency Revealed.

From the commercials it looks like a hatchet job of what good the man did.

IF they can discredit FDR they can start to raise der schlickmeister to near mythic proportions.

Which raises the next Dem hopeful to the top, MRS. der schlickmeister.

The last? Well, maybe Harry doesn't qualify for some reason, but this Republican thinks today's Party has need of a man who, among other things, snookered the USSR into walking out of a Security Council vote and thus getting UN approval of defending against an invasion.

IIRC, isn't Thomas Jefferson considered to have been the founder of the Democrat party?

If that is so, and counting him as well as FDR, that makes one great president from the Dems. (I despise FDR.)

Hatchet job? The radio commercials give the impression of a puff piece, particularly when you hear the voice of some guy saying that FDR "brought us into the 20th century." (It took three decades to enter the new century?)

It wouldn't be hard to do a hatchet job on FDR if one focuses solely on economic policy. The one act that makes me want to scream "you [bleeping] idiot!" is the agricultural subsidies. Roosevelt expressedly wanted to artificially raise the wages of farmers, but at the cost of raising everybody's groceries during a time of wage and price deflation. Grrrrrrrrr.

That leaves the war as a claim to greatness. And it is well-deserved, not only because of two decisions that altered the course of the war (putting George C. Marshall in charge, authorizing the Manhattan Project) but because of a zillion less conspicuous actions that don't make the history books.