Here's how you handle the scum. Here's how you fight back. FDR, 1936: "I welcome their hatred"

[Faygo Kid]

". . . For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me, and I welcome their hatred.

I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master. . ."

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/text/us/fd...

[hisownpetard]

1. K&R. Beautiful.

[Coexist]

2. kick!

[billybob537]

3. I WANT A NEW DEAL!

[BlueIdaho]

4. K and R

Someone please make viral video of this - its OUR STORY!

[Gabi Hayes]

5. most excellent.....where'd you come up with that? on your own?

a kudos to you

[Faygo Kid]

7. Thanks. (Love the pic.) No, it's just history. Just Dems FIGHTING BACK.

Our greatest Dem, perhaps. Backbone, my friends.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. but, were you already familiar with that, or were you just skimming?

or what?

my GM used to talk about how much my GP hated him (both born in the 19th C), but she likes the memory of what he did for the country

[Faygo Kid]

13. I was familiar with it. We all ought to be familiar with it here.

FDR would find it extraordinary that clowns like Hannity and O'Reilly would try to intimidate him. He would laugh at their futility, then go after them with everything he had, and win.

As an aside, I happened to catch Glenn Beck one night when he said FDR "ruined" this country, and then gave "historical" reasons why. The ignoramus had no knowledge of history. Nor does Hannity. Nor does Limbaugh.

[BeFree]

15. Yep

I've read the same here a few times. But never quite so poignantly or more timely. Many thanks for the reminder.

[Faygo Kid]

20. You're welcome. And I'm kicking my own post for those who are thinking of wimping out.

I don't think so.

[democracy1st]

6. K & R

[gateley]

8. K&R! nt

[islandmkl]

9. K&R!! THAT'S what we are talking about...

we need to send about a thousand links to this to Barack's crew...they know the score, and some historical perspective would be good for them to share around...

who knows the procedure?

[Neshanic]

11. That puts some perspective on carefull, parsed, focus group talk.

[nam78_two]

12. Nicely done

:thumbsup:

[RepublicanElephant]

14. what would fdr do with the media whores of today?

i know he had his share of them... but nothing like we have today!

[Faygo Kid]

17. See my post 13. He would handle it all beautifully. HST would have scared 'em.

Bottom line: Neither FDR, HST, nor JFK would have ever apologized or backtracked, for doing the people's business, in the face of entrenched power. History proves that. That's what Obama must now do.

[RepublicanElephant]

18. yeah, journalists back then were smarter than the talking heads of today. n/t

.

[Flying Dream Blues]

16. I think that's a good, no great, way to go! nt

[Faygo Kid]

19. I sense that the overreach is backfiring. I think that Barack may benefit here.

Sure, Hannity will use it for three weeks. But this is such obvious BS, Barack will beat this back.

[D23MIURG23]

21. Error: You've already recommended that thread.

[undergroundpanther]

22. NO DEAL.

You cannot reason with psychopath republicans,or deal with snakes in suits without getting hurt and hated.NO DEAL with repukes, I want YOU republicans to shut the fuck up,clean up your corporate mess,remove your loudmouth preachers off the street harassing people, and go away,leave us, you are not civil enough,compassionate, adult enough or emotionally mature enough to live in a free country.. So take your greed, fascism ,authoritarian bullshit and your hate and LEAVE.. I want a NEW society.One WITHOUT the right wing cancers,the oligarch pigs, or the christian taliban in it. AMPUTATE THE RIGHT WING For it has Gangrene and it will sicken us all.

[DeepModem Mom]

23. What an eloquent statement! K&R!

[I Have A Dream]

24. K&R! nt

[judasdisney]

25. The Plot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

[Ganja Ninja]

26. Some things never change.

:kick:

[TheUnspeakable]

27. k&r

[maxpower]

28. I love FDR

The GOP has been trying to dismantle all the good he did for 60 years. They can't stand the fact he is considered one of our greatest presidents. That is why they lamely try to make Reagan into something he was not, a good president.

[Faygo Kid]

31. Agreed. Some of the cretins tearing down FDR have no knowledge of history at all.

Glenn Beck comes to mind. I heard him once talking about his hatred of FDR. FDR would dismiss the little worm with one stare.

[ColbertWatcher]

29. k+r, n/t

[SeaLyons]

30. K&R

Beautiful...