You Saw It Here, First

August 30:

Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, wrote:

amid talk of a second Great Depression, Obama was often compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt. But by the time FDR took office, the economy had been in free fall for more than three years, creating mass desperation.

July 11:

I wrote that while Bush was in danger of becoming Herbert Hoover to Obama’s FDR,

Here’s the big factual difference. . . The Great Depression clobbered Hoover in his 7th month in office (October 1929), and he lived with it for the next 41.