Exactly, look at JaaDee's post about Rossevelt, he has no idea. Rossevelt was about the best leader the US had. His 'New Deal' pulled the US out of the depression by its boot straps & help to prepare the US for war. He also reppealled prohibition, which was one of the most destructive peices of legislation ever - afterall it was prohibition which destroyed thousands of old family owned brewers & borbon distillers across the US & also gave the mafia the chance to move up in the world, from its origins of extorting local Italian owned businesses.
Because of the Nuetrality act & the isolationist Republican congress Roosevelt could do virtually nothing about what was happening in Europe & just about every bill of his to improve the US military
(which at that time was smaller than even countries like Greece, Finland, Yugoslavia etc) was blocked by the isolationist congress. The only way he was able to get voted in for a 3rd term was by agreeing to all the isolationist demands of congress. But even then he helped the British every way he could by acts of trickery such as exchanging 50 near obsolete destroyers for airbases in the Azores. Which gave the UK more escort ships for the convoys & freed up British patrol aircraft for other uses as American partrol aircraft would then be patrolling the skys arround the Azores. He also gave American protection to all ships in or near American waters which meant the US Atlantic fleet could then attack U-boats (which they did) even though they were still nuetral, this was then codified under the Atlantic treaty. He also introduced the lend-lease bill so that the US could lease American manufactured arms & supplies to any democracy under attack from a dictatorship (that was to get arround the nuetrality act) so then the US was sending thousands of planes & tanks to Britain & its Commonwealth allies, which help to save the Suez Canal from Rommels Afrika Korp (& all while the US was nuetral).
But the most important thing he did was advance 'new deal' resources to help the US prepare for war under the guise of employement programs. So huge aircraft factories were built in areas of high unemployement using federal aid money & federal loans. Plus under utilised autoplants were converted to tank manufacturing (an example is the Buick plant that made M3 & M5 light tanks with twin Caddilac engines & automatic torque converter drives, which was very popular with crews because of its ease of use & drivability). Plus we mustn't forget the army act back in 1940, where over a period of less than a year he turned the US which had one of the smallerst armies in the world (it then ranked 30th), for a developed nation, to having the 2ND biggest army in the world (other than the USSR), & all while the US was still nuetral.
I shudder to think what may have occurred to the world if Roosevelt had not won that election in 1940.
BTW, whats so arrogant about standing for 4 terms? after all if the people don't want him they can always vote for someone else, but they loved him. The reaction to his death in 1945 was untold, the US mourned like no country had ever mourned that day. Also, maybe he did hide the facts concerning his polio injuries, but you have to understand the culture of the day. There were no anti-discrimination laws than, atitudes were different - I'm sure everyone who had polio injuries back in those days, hid it as much as possible. Plus there was the respect he had from the media, in those times the media just didn't make a noise over things lkie that, so its not as if he actively stoped the media mentioning his polio, they just did it out of respect.