Did Hillary just compare herself to FDR?

Upset over McCain’s statement on the mortgage crisis that it’s not the government’s responsibility to “reward those who act irresponsibly,” Hillary equated McCain to Herbert Hoover, president during the Great Depression, whose inaction led to widespread ‘hoovervilles’ and did little to resolve the recession.

Is she comparing herself to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hoover’s successor, who took a more proactive approach to resolving the Great Depression? Unlike Hoover’s failed policy of lifting oneself up by one’s own bootstraps, the New Deal programs of FDR assisted nearly-bankrupt banks and “saved capitalism in 8 days” during the “First 100 Days” of his presidency through emergency banking acts.

Hillary’s proposal for solving the mortgage crisis is both progressive, costly, and akin to FDR’s program of government intervention: she would immediately allocate $30 billion to be used to help states fight foreclosures. A 90-day moratorium would be enacted on foreclosures and rates on subprime mortgages would be frozen for at least 5 years. Lastly, legislation would be introduced that would provide legal protection to mortgage services.

Now is not the time for the next president to sit back and do nothing. If we are entering a recession it will require government intervention to bring us out of it. McCain’s policy of not helping those affected, because of his erroneous belief that they brought it upon themselves, has been proven historically false.

While no one would equate Hillary to FDR in terms of charisma or oratory ability, her policies of government intervention in a time of crisis is similar to what FDR implemented during the Great Depression and WW2. It took, however, a do-nothing president before people were so fed-up that they voted in FDR, who expanded the federal government’s role in an effort to bail the country out of economic turmoil. Hopefully now only one do-nothing president is sufficient.