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Has Time lost what little mind it has?
Daily Pundit — The cover of Time. Obami as FDR complete with cigarette and holder.

Did Time Magazine “Borrow” Its Obama/FDR Cover Idea From Firedoglake?
Firedoglake — ... (FDL in Sept. above, Time this week below.) To paraphrase another blog's tagline, reading Firedoglake is like getting Time magazine two months early... literally. I had a deja vu experience yesterday when I came face ...

The First New Deal Didn't Work But Libs Want Another One Anyway
Gateway Pundit — Here's some advice for the libs... We're not in a depression. Barack Obama is not Lincoln... or FDR. ...Except Obama is still smoking. And, as George Will says, the New Deal Didn't Work: Hat Tip Think Progress. Yid with Lid reported: ...

I've got a theory we should work this out
The Sideshow — ... "I'm used to seeing so many acorns around and out in the field, it's something I just didn't believe," he said. "But this is not just not a good year for oaks. It's a zero year. There's zero production. I've never seen anything like this before." [...] The absence of acorns could have something to do with the weather, Simmons thought. But he hoped it wasn't a climatic event. "Let's hope it's not something ghastly going on with the natural world." Nice cover. Wish I believed it. Clips from Elvis Costello's new show, featuring Sting, ...

‘Depression Fetishism’ All the Rage
Pajamas Media — ... fetishism.” It’s an affliction of the political left where pundits, liberal economists and far left bloggers endlessly decry “predatory capitalism.” Economic exaggeration and doomsday scenarios proliferate far and wide, with attacks on the Bush administration’s “malign economic neglect” bolstering the case on the Democratic left for a “New, New Deal.” Recall, for example, one of the great national newsweeklies sold magazines with a mock-up of President-elect Barack Obama riding in a vintage open-air sedan , while decked out with a crumpled fedora and an elongated cigarette ...

The Clock is Ticking...
TPM Election Central — ... to sign by Inauguration Day. After all, the stakes couldn't be higher, and Obama's recovery challenge is already being likened to FDR's. ...

Inauguration Day, 2009: A Day of Mourning
Antiwar.com Original — ... of FDR, a president Obama is expected to emulate and may even surpass in the sense that the new administration seeks more power than even Roosevelt ever managed to grab. Certainly the current economic turmoil mirrors the 1930s in ways we have only just begun to experience, yet I agree with ...

1932 or 1923?
Sister Toldjah — ... . And President Obama has spent the last two months since his inauguration telling us we’re in the worst crisis since the Crash of ‘29 and the Great Depression. (Not to mention the repeated attempts to cast him as a new FDR.) ...

The more things Hopeandchange…
Patterico's Pontifications — ... Barack Obama (and TIME magazine) may have thought the last election opened the door to the New New Deal, but history would again suggest the opposite. Democrats picked up ...

IEA: Obama’s Depression Era Mistakes Will Hamper Growth
Blue Star Chronicles — ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt is seen in the eyes of liberals as a great president; to some he is the greatest ever. That is until now, they have Obama. Time magazine likened Obama to Roosevelt when he was inaugurated. They made the comparison of the current financial “crisis” to the great depression, of course going on the assumption that Roosevelt made all of the right moves in getting America out of the depression. ...