Posted on 06/08/2004 6:19:25 AM PDT by Theodore R.
The answer to the main question - NO!
FDR was the worst president we ever had.
It was his administration that set up all the socialist/communist programs that are sucking money from the tax payers to this day.
I believe the guy was a commie.
No..
Farah needs to get over his hatred of Bush. He brings up some legitimate points but greatly overstates his case and ignores many of relevant points.
No.
In a word: No.
Just my two cents. I don't want to slam FDR, as many here DO regard him highly. Every other issue aside, I would rank Reagan ahead simply because he ended the Cold War, which FDR did his best to help the Soviet Union begin.
A leader can only be judged in the context of time. FDR was right for the time but wrong for today. I believe that many of the programs he set up to address The Great Depression were intended to be temporary.
I judge FDR to be the best and worst on any given issue. Carter has the distinct "Worst Overall" title.
Hmm, a trick question. Ok I'll play.....
For the USA and world freedom - a resounding NO
For Marxism & Stalinist Despots - YES
I agree. Read "Treason" by Ann Coulter. If Roosevelt wasn't a supporter of Joe Stalin, I'll eat my hat.
He thought Uncle Joe was the best thing Russia ever had - the man who murdered more people than Hitler than did.
Also, I think Roosevelt deliberately engineered the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and was responsible for all those dead Americans because he wanted a reason to enter the war after having promised America to keep us out of it.
If I'm not mistaken, Roosevelt was Secretary of the Navy during WW1 and helped engineer the successful German attack on the Lusitania, with the connivance of Churchill, in order to accomplish the same thing he did at Pearl Harbor in WW2.
Roosevelt always envied his relative and great American Teddy Roosevelt. He was a poor excuse for Teddy Roosevelt in every way.
I don't think FDR was great in terms of policy, but he exuded some needed confidence for his first term. And he may have been a safety valve against the country going even further left out of despair. That said, his legacy of paternal government is a burden. I need to read more about him, hopefully from a concise, historical point of view.
You gotta give FDR credit for the one good decision he made: developing the atom bomb.
"Temporary government program," an oxymoron.
No. One of the things he is supposedly remembered for - getting us out of the Depression, he failed miserably at. It took a world war to get the economy going again, and he had been on the job 8 years by that point in time. In addition, in trying to pull us out of the Depression he abrogated and nullified many of the principal structures of our system of government and economy, unleashing a collectivist virus that, to this day, chronically infects us.
.............Besides, he couldn't keep that damned wife of his shut up.
he threw japanese in camps, tried to load the supreme court w/ extra leftists and gave away eastern europe to russia
he threw japanese in camps
But don't Japanese Americans still pay total fealty to the Democrat Party and hold FDR and HST in the highest rating?
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