TWO TIME MAGAZINES IN ONE: This week, Time asks, “Are We Already in A Recession?”

But in late 2008, the print division of Time-Warner-CNN-HBO was trumpeting, for no other reason — other than his party designation, or perhaps because Newsweek had already run with the Lincoln comparison on their cover, a tyro Chicago machine politician as The Next FDR:

Four years on, why are they expecting results that are any different from the old FDR?