If Franklin Delano Roosevelt were alive today, would he visit the protesters in Wisconsin?

[LoZoccolo]

Poll question: If Franklin Delano Roosevelt were alive today, would he visit the protesters in Wisconsin?

[bluestateguy]

1. I am unaware of an example of a sitting president personally visting protestors

Some presidents have sent written or recorded messages, but that's about it.

[OutNow]

14. How about Nixon? Yes, that Nixon.

Nixon, in a delusional state, came out and spoke with anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. on the evening of May 17, 1970.

[bluestateguy]

17. Um, OK, but not to support them

He came to the Lincoln Memorial to chit chat with them. It did not go well.

What I meant, and what I thought was obvious, was that no sitting president has ever personally appeared at a protest rally to support the demonstrators.

[JoePhilly]

2. I'm sure he would have wheel-chaired himself there on his new highway system!!!

:sarcasm:

[PeaceNikki]

3. He'd be 139 so I doubt it very much. That's pretty fuckin' old.

edited cuz math is hard

[Obamanaut]

11. Math is hard. He was born in 1882. nt

[Countdown_3_2_1]

4. if FDR was alive, he's be in the hospital. How OLD would he be? 150+?

More likely he would call, or send his best wishes.

A Hale and Hearty would FDR probably reside in the Smithsonian. In that case he would visit WI. But people might suspect he was a vampire or something.

[Obamanaut]

10. Born in 1882. n/t

[rzemanfl]

5. If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd march with them. If you are

going to posit miracles, why be half-hearted about it?

[krispos42]

6. No, he was in a wheelchair.

He would probably have given a fireside chat about it, though.

[dennis4868]

7. If the unions told him not to get involved....

he would not get involve since he was a responsible president like Obama....

[Itchinjim]

8. Did FDR visit the GM sit down strikers at Flint in 1937?

Did he visit the Ford Dearborn strikers? Coal miners? Steel workers? Farm workers? Nope, nope, nope, nope and nope. Should Obama visit the protesters in Wisconsin? Nope.

[NYC Liberal]

9. No. But...Eleanor very well might have.

Eleanor Roosevelt Visiting Bonus Army Camp
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt is a popular visitor to the new Bonus Army camp at Fort Hunt, Virginia. Mrs. Roosevelt is being lustily cheered by the Bonus Expeditionary Force veterans shortly after her arrival May 16, 1933. She brought a message of peace to the 1,500 veterans at the camp.

[pacalo]

12. Yep, my answer, too.

[no_hypocrisy]

18. + 1

[LanternWaste]

13. Which strikes did he attend during his tenure...?

Which strikes did he attend and support during his tenure...? I imagine that would be the answer.

[rug]

15. No, he'd form an alliance with the Bund against communists.

[mrmpa]

16. He wouldn't be there but Eleanor would show up

[pulledpork]

19. Only after he freed the Americans he had put in camps

For the crime of having Japanese ancestry.

So, no.

[Rowdyboy]

20. He'd send Eleanor...he called her his "legs"