Posted on 11/29/2008 4:06:23 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Working on the day after Thanksgiving, Brian Williams used Friday's NBC Nightly News to promote a new book from FDR's grandson, providing Williams with an opportunity to propose: “In your estimation, could we use a little FDR right about now?” Though Franklin Delano Roosevelt's policies failed to end the Depression, Williams hailed him as “the man who led this nation out of financial disaster.” Conceding “we can no longer talk to him,” as if we'd benefit from doing so, Williams trumpeted how “tonight we think we have about the next best thing” in FDR's grandson, Curtis, who “lives in the south of France after a career with the UN.”
Williams cued up Roosevelt, “I know you've been asked for comment along these lines lately: In your estimation, could we use a little FDR right about now?” Roosevelt naturally agreed as he recalled “FDR is credited with a fantastic list of legislative achievements,” but “to me, his achievement in conveying confidence and hope to the American people was far more important” and so “I hope Obama picks it up” and will “convey to the American public that they have to join him in coping with this recession.”
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[Though Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s policies failed to end the Depression, Williams hailed him as “the man who led this nation out of financial disaster.”]
That’s kind of like saying “Though Hitler’s policies failed to unite the world under one government, he’s the man who led Germany out of World War Two.”
FDR raised taxes so high many small businesses went under, increasing unemployment and creating longer ‘soup’ lines. The American people need to realize that small business is the largest employer of Americans. Roughly 70% of all Americans are employed by small buisness.
I’d prefer a little WSC.
We just had one last term! One that liked his mistresses closest to him by working for him.
Which is why ALOT of new GOP folks were former Democrats.
Hmmm, let’s ask an economist.....
.....okay, they all tell me that FDR actually prolonged the Great Depression, rather than helped ease or stop it.
Well what do you know, our high school textbooks got it all wrong.
Williams is evidently not aware of two top UCLA Economists, (not exactly a bastion of Convervativism), whose research recently credited Roosevelt with extending the Depression by 6 or 7 years by implementing exactly the wrong Economic policies from what was needed.
Of course we couldn't expect the Mainstream to research anything they write - could we.
We need another President cheating on his wife?
No thanks.
Hell no, FDR was the worst socislist to ever be elected President!
We need a full blown depression to run it’s course without government intervention.
L0L!
We could use a little less selective reporting, Brian.
Williams has screenplay writers who feed questions to him. But, he has good hair, and makeup, and knows the camera angles, and that's all that matters.
Its amazing to me how FDR, still to this day, enjoys such an undeserved reputation. He took a two year deep recession and turned it into a 10 year depression.
Hyperinflation is exactly where i think we are headed as i go to the store and buy 10 lbs of flour each trip...rice/beans every other trip and have two packed freezers in my garage. Yup Hyperinflation is on its way.
if i’m wrong the food bank will make out great
FDR fooled a lot of people, but Joe Stalin fooled FDR AND CHURCHILL, didn’t he?
Maybe it was all deliberate so that he could “demonstrate” to the hapless voters that he had “their” interest at “heart”.
Also, FDR fooled Ronald Reagan four times too, and five if one counts the Truman “fifth” term for FDR.
Churchill: “we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender”)
Yes, but what about Poland in 1946?
Sure, I remember those newsreels of FDR going to the gym to work his quads.
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