MB Civic

By Richard Cohen | Tuesday, November 18, 2008 | The Washington Post

“…Enough Lincoln. More FDR. This is my shorthand advice to Barack Obama, who in several interviews has talked about wanting to emulate Abraham Lincoln. He said that along with the Bible, the book he would take with him to a desert island would be Doris Kearns Goodwin’s ‘Team of Rivals.’ It’s a useful book — but not if that desert island has high unemployment, a housing crisis, a frozen financial system and no consumer confidence. In that case, a book about Franklin D. Roosevelt would do better….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/17/AR2008111702919_pf.html