http://www.inthesetimes.com/archives/tags/roosevelt/ In These Times features award-winning investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, insightful analysis of national and international affairs, and sharp cultural criticism about events and ideas that matter. en-us Expression Engine jessica@inthesetimes.com seamus@inthesetimes.com Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:00:00 -0600 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4182/the_dragon_we_must_slay/ Obama as Lincoln. Obama as FDR. The instantly classic image of Obama, sticking his jaw defiantly into the pouring rain in Chester, Pa., during a campaign rally, as if he had just come down from Mount Olympus. He was not even sworn into office, and yet all this hagiography cast him, already, as a god. Which standards will the news media use to judge Obama? Will the benchmark be FDR, circa 1944, having revolutionized the government, the economy and on the brink of winning WWII? Or will the benchmark be Bush, despoiler of the economy, of civil liberties and human rights, and of our image worldwide? By the latter standard, if the Obama administration simply shuts down Gitmo, denounces torture… obama roosevelt media Rachel Jefferson