Posted on 04/28/2024 5:18:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Hugh Gallagher explored what he called FDR’s Splendid Deception in his 1985 book of that title. In the title Gallagher was referring to FDR’s concealment of the polio-related paralysis that struck him in 1921. Gallagher was also a polio victim who understood the pain underlying Roosevelt’s efforts.
Researching the book, Gallagher found that among the 35,000 photographs of Roosevelt at his presidential library, only two featured him in his wheelchair. Media of the day cooperated by ignoring his polio. Roosevelt himself went to extraordinary lengths to convey the impression that he could walk.
“[T]he overwhelming fact about [FDR] is that he was horribly crippled, and yet through sheer persistence and will, rose above his lower body” — so wrote my teacher Jeffrey Hart in his memoiristic history of America in 1940, From This Moment On. Hart added: “In rising above his crippled body and seeming to walk again…Roosevelt told everyone that America rise again and walk too.” Put to one side that we had to rise again in 1940 by overcoming Roosevelt’s domestic policies.
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It’s been my experience that cadavers do just about what you expect of them. But they can be dressed up and manipulated.
In the days before the 25th Amendment, if the president was alive but but incapacitated, it wasn’t clear what to do. Wilson had a stroke. Now what happens?? Well, his wife sort of became president. Which was not ideal.
So we amended the Constitution to deal with a situation where the president was incompetent for the office.
But we now have a government that ignores the Constitution in so many ways — 1st Amendment, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 8th, many Articles. It’s no surprise that the 25th Amendment means nothing to these people.
People pretend that the Constitution is still in force. But it isn’t. We have no Rule of Law. We just have Rule of Men. Not a Republic, it’s an Oligarchy.
Biden is the ring around the Rosy President. Ashes Ashes We all Fall down.
Are we supposeds to feel sorry for FDR and Biden? FDR had a very bad disease while Biden is an evil bastard. I don’t feel sorry for either.
Biden’s sordid political moves to sideline Trump have backfired bigly.
He’s only succeeded in strengthening Trump, depicting himself as
a demented pygmy waving his fist at a mountain that got in his way.
Did FDR have dementia?
Does Biden have dementia?
What is better: a man who can’t walk but still has a functioning brain, or a man who somewhat walks but lacks a functioning brain?
Boy, that PBS one of Biden - totally not there at all
https://twitter.com/i/status/1758565853044633876
And that one of Biden walking to the helicopter
https://twitter.com/i/status/1734764180593672553
Biden: “Four more years. Pause.”
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1783184198477508785
Hat tip to Brown Deer for that last one
FDR was daman commie.
Speaking of deceptions, haven’t people determined that “polio” itself didn’t really exist as a disease? It was traced down to using lead arsenate as an agricultural pesticide starting around the turn of the century.
Biden is an evil bastard.
And he is a disease on this great country that flourished well from 2016 till the scamdemic 2020 election theft that put him in power.
Biden manifests the utter contempt with which he views the American electorate:
<><>lowering America to new depths of ignominity
<><>opening the borders to every Third World miscreant,
<><>rolling out the welcome mat for illegals, terrorists, drug cartels
<><>suppressing domestic energy production,
<><>making life easy for the genocidal maniacs running Iran,
<><>requiring that men who say they’re women must be treated as such,
<><>imposing the DEI religion
<><>waging lawfare on the opposition
<><>aided and abetted by the MSM accommodating Biden’s squalid deceptions.
Good highlights of the demented one.
Are Dems that dumb?
Looked like that idiot on the right was applauding “pause.”
FDR had no usable legs.
Biden has no usable brain.
In both cases, the media covered this obvious fact up.
PROOF that the media was never independent, even back in the 1940s.
Apparently so (incredible)
OTOH,the fact that 95% of the brain cells that The Big Guy was born with are now dead is plainly obvious to anyone with an IQ > 70. However,there are many who refuse to acknowledge that fact.
I was twelve years old when FDR died. I knew he was a cripple and couldn’t walk. It wasn’t a secret.
You know, they say Biden’s walking style is so distinctive that it inspired a new dance move. It’s called the “Biden Shuffle.” Just imagine everyone shuffling their feet awkwardly while trying to look presidential
Roosevelt gave away the store at Yalta which set up a costly 50-year cold war.
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