The absolute power that FDR held was something to behold, so much so that he was able to cause the depression that began in 1929, three years before he took office.
/sarcasm
Actually, a politician CAN cause economic mayham even before he takes office because investors can see what's coming.
The crash of '08 was due to the country foreseeing that McCain was losing and a socialist was about to take take the Presidency...I have no doubts about that.
3 years before? Well, I don't know...investors may have seen Roosevelt approaching on the horizon (he became Gov. of NYC one year before the crash...wouldn't be surpised if that was a large part of what made the crash inevitable)...or they may just have seen the spectre of a socialist army getting closer and closer.
You idiot. He prolonged the economic problems with his crazy leftist policies.