Megan McArdle has an excellent post on the problems with both the FDR myth and the folly of trying to make Obama into another FDR. I agree with pretty much everything she writes. But I’d add a few other points. The idea that Obama could be another FDR was always absurd, given that FDR wasn’t even FDR. But nearly all comparisons to pre-television and internet age presidents are going to be strained, at best for the simple reason that the job description has changed so much.