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In reply to the discussion: FDR: "I welcome their hatred" [View all]Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)86. I doubt it. He'll go down as having accomplished little of lasting merit.
He'll be the "But my hands were tied! My hands were tied!" president.
Roosevelt (and probably Truman) would have kicked congressional ass. Obama chose not to. As a consequence, besides the health care bill, Obama will be credited mainly for accomplishing long time *Republican* goals.
Like public school privatization and Iraq War #3.
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why bother standing up to Wall Street or the MIC when your sycophants can just say you are?!
MisterP
Sep 2014
#10
You posted... "..although decorum will probably prevent that from happening...."
Bigmack
Sep 2014
#60
it's like the Nothing from The Neverending Story: looking at it straight-on is an impossibility,
MisterP
Sep 2014
#110
As opposed to the Clintons who gave them the key to the Lincoln Bedroom.
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2014
#6
My favorite thing FDR said was when told the rich would leave America if he raised taxes.
mountain grammy
Sep 2014
#7
I was later brought up by my union aunt and uncle who revered FDR as well. They told me about the
freshwest
Sep 2014
#28
Believe me, a lot of people here were saying exactly this in 2009 and 2010.
Smarmie Doofus
Sep 2014
#25
I doubt it. He'll go down as having accomplished little of lasting merit.
Smarmie Doofus
Sep 2014
#86
“Men will thank God on their knees a hundred years from now that Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the
dflprincess
Sep 2014
#105
I also protested the LIES that "started" this mess... and what "good" did it do? Ignored.
Amonester
Sep 2014
#58
He was a giant among men, though he himself could barely stand up...
FailureToCommunicate
Sep 2014
#36
I guess when they talk sh#t about you, you know you're on the right track.
grahamhgreen
Sep 2014
#37
FDR was president when I was born, and I remember hearing the news of his death
No Vested Interest
Sep 2014
#45
FDR is my hero. But he entered office in the depths of the Great Depression
SleeplessinSoCal
Sep 2014
#63
Good points. We live in a totally different age now, in terms of technology and media
YoungDemCA
Sep 2014
#67