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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-13-10 08:37 AM
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36. Well let's just let the teachers go then because we don't want
to act cynical, do we?
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  -Liberal Criticism of Franklin Roosevelt and The New Deal Pirate Smile  Aug-11-10 04:10 PM   #0 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Aug-11-10 04:16 PM   #1 
  - kick nt  Smarmie Doofus   Aug-11-10 04:21 PM   #2 
  - This shows how much more formidable the American Left was in the 1930s.  leveymg   Aug-11-10 04:29 PM   #3 
  - Yup. FDR was acting to placate the far left and to throw a sop to the communists so they wouldn't  Brickbat   Aug-11-10 04:39 PM   #5 
     - No, the left bitched about the New Deal  sandnsea   Aug-11-10 04:46 PM   #7 
     - The difference is, nothing Obama is doing is to placate the left.  Brickbat   Aug-11-10 05:02 PM   #11 
        - I don't think there is anything that will placate the left at all.  Kdillard   Aug-11-10 05:05 PM   #12 
     - We're barely a factor in their calculations, until they need us to get re-elected.  leveymg   Aug-11-10 04:51 PM   #9 
     - Well let's just let the teachers go then because we don't want  Solomon   Aug-13-10 08:37 AM   #36 
     - Thank God the left was there to push FDR into things like the New Deal!  villager   Aug-12-10 12:34 PM   #27 
  - It's impossible to quantify what percante of "the left" criticized FDR  30rock   Aug-11-10 04:35 PM   #4 
  - But then they couln't use it to trump up the rightious anger against their newfound enemy?  Go2Peace   Aug-11-10 08:21 PM   #16 
  - Oooh, I like that Harold Ickes letter  sandnsea   Aug-11-10 04:45 PM   #6 
  - Wordy, but Ickes didn't really say much beyond,  leveymg   Aug-11-10 04:56 PM   #10 
  - Word  hedgehog   Aug-12-10 01:46 PM   #30 
  - Let me in on this too.  Solomon   Aug-13-10 08:38 AM   #37 
  - +1  Tarheel_Dem   Aug-12-10 02:05 PM   #31 
  - It fits.  Pirate Smile   Aug-12-10 07:01 PM   #32 
  - You're Looking At A Pre-Civil Rights World  Yavin4   Aug-11-10 04:49 PM   #8 
  - kick  Pirate Smile   Aug-11-10 06:13 PM   #13 
  - I can imagine them saying  CTLawGuy   Aug-11-10 07:45 PM   #14 
  - It's been said many times - "FDR saved capitalism" - nothing here that's surprising -nt  democrat2thecore   Aug-11-10 07:53 PM   #15 
  - Do you agree with the attacks on FDR from the left?  Pirate Smile   Aug-11-10 10:14 PM   #17 
  - Wow the quotes sound like many a posting on here  SpartanDem   Aug-12-10 12:29 AM   #18 
  - Maybe if he had listened to them more instead of trying to placate the  jtuck004   Aug-12-10 01:10 AM   #19 
  - My current thought is that FDR's detractors were not so far off  TheKentuckian   Aug-12-10 01:10 AM   #20 
  - Excellent read Pirate Smile, thank you  SunsetDreams   Aug-12-10 01:22 AM   #21 
  - Are you SERIOUSLY trying to equate what Obama has done to the New Deal?  Waiting For Everyman   Aug-12-10 02:04 AM   #22 
  - As usual, you're missing the point  scheming daemons   Aug-12-10 08:46 AM   #25 
  - Are you seriously misreading the OP that badly!...n/t  POAS   Aug-12-10 07:45 PM   #34 
  - K&R  WonderGrunion   Aug-12-10 05:26 AM   #23 
  - Great article. Politics look much different in the rear view mirror than when you are in the middle  pampango   Aug-12-10 06:41 AM   #24 
  - I don't know what else to say about this, except it's one of the best things I've read all year. nt  quiet.american   Aug-12-10 10:09 AM   #26 
  - kick  Pirate Smile   Aug-12-10 12:39 PM   #28 
  - That was worth reading. Thanks for posting. n/t  Laelth   Aug-12-10 01:14 PM   #29 
  - Too late to rec but here's a kick...  POAS   Aug-12-10 07:43 PM   #33 
  - kick  scheming daemons   Aug-13-10 12:54 AM   #35 
  - I don't bookmark many, but this one is a keeper.  Solomon   Aug-13-10 08:41 AM   #38 
 

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