[Resettozero]

I’ve had more lefties give me the FDR example the past few days than ever before total in my lifetime. (Not calling any FReeper a leftie.)

There was a legitimate war-time psychological reason for the press’ handling of FDR photos.

[Gaffer]

I certainly am not a leftie, nor is the press hiding his infirmity PRIOR to WWII lost on me either.

[taterjay]

FDR was already President. There is a difference and there is protocol for situations in the government. All this Hillary baloney is rooted in lies at every turn. And we have the press obfuscation. Ask yourself, ‘What if Trump was the one with the bad health, would the press be so obliging as they were to FDR. NO WAY!

[katana]

It's a good analogy only in so far as a compliant press did everything they could to hide the fact that FDR was a paraplegic. But the comparison ends there. FDR may not have had use of his legs, and he may have famously had a second-class intellect but a first-class temperament (Oliver Wendell Holmes), but from the waist up he was robustly healthy and in control of his faculties until the last year or so of the war.

Hillary is like one of those cartoon derelict race cars that approaches the finish line with parts flying off in various directions. And all that's happening in a modern version of a "front porch campaign".

If she can't make it from a ceremony to the car without collapsing into a rumpled, head lolling, drool cup heap how exactly would she deal with the rigors of an office that has traditionally put five years age on healthy men for every year served?

[Paine in the Neck]

FDR’s debilitation led to Hiss and Hopkins convincing him to deliver half of Europe into Soviet slavery. Debilitated Presidents, acting as sock-puppets for who knows who behind the scenes manipulators, are not a good thing.