Newt: FDR Was The ‘Greatest President’ Of The 20th Century

Breibart TV ^ | December 12, 2011 | Staff

[lbryce]

Newt: FDR Was The ‘Greatest President’ Of The 20th Century
http://www.breitbart.tv/newt-fdr-was-the-greatest-president-of-the-20th-century/

[avacado]

Trying to keep up with Newt and believe that he is a conservative!

[sand lake bar]

My mom was a very conservative person. But she also admired FDR. I suspect that Ronald Reagan also had great respect for FDR. The Newt bashers are really desperate.

[surfer]

How is that Kool-aid?

Gingrich praises Teddy, Franklin and admits on the radio he is a progressive...

What exactly are you waiting for?

Do you really want to vote another progressive in the WH?

[F.J. Mitchell]

Like Newt, I was brain washed as a child about what a wonderful President FDR was. As I grew older and learned more about politics and politicians, I saw him in a much different light. I totally disagree with Newt in regards to FDR and do not want a President who believes that BS.

[avacado]

Attempting to believe in Newt...

[Plutarch]

Newt can't be expected to know the history of the the socialism-introducing, Constitution-shredding, Depression-prolonging, Stalin-coddling Roosevelt.

Oh, wait, Newt fancies himself an historian...

[Vigilanteman]

I'm going to post this in honor of my Daddy who was born in 1918, enlisted in the U.S. Navy shortly after Pearl Harbor and saw action at Iwo Jima, Okinawa and other hot spots. Dad figured out FDR in time for his first election (1940).

Rejected

FDR at the gates of Hell

A stranger stood at the Gates of hell
And the Devil himself answered the bell.
He looked him over from head to toe
And said: My friend, I'd like to know
What you have done in the line of sin
To entitle you to come within?

Then Franklin D, with his usual guile
Stepped forth with his toothy smile and said:

"When I took charge in '33
A nations faith was mine," said he
"I promised them this and I promised them that
And I calmed them down with a fireside chat.
I spent their money in fishing trips
And fished from the decks of their battleships.

I gave them jobs in the WPA
Then raised their taxes and took it away.
I raised their wages and closed their shops
I killed their pigs and buried their crops
I double-crossed both old and young
And still the folks my praises sung.

I brought back beer, and what do you think?
I taxed it so high they couldn't drink.
I furnished 'em money with Government loans
When they missed a payment I took their homes.
When I wanted to punish the folks, you know
I'd put my wife on the radio.

I paid them to let their farms lie still
And imported foodstuffs from Brazil.
I curtailed crops when I felt real mean
And shipped in crops from the Argentine.

When they started to worry, stew and fret
I got them to chant the alphabet
With the AAA and the NLB
The WPA and the CCC.

With these many units I got their goats
And still I crammed it down their throats.
My workers worked with the speed of snails
While the taxpayers chewed their fingernails.

When the organization needed dough
I closed their plants with the CIO.
I ruined jobs, I ruined health
And I put the screws on the rich man's wealth.

And some who couldn't stand the gaff
Would call on me and how I'd laugh.
When they got too strong on certain things
I'd pack and head for "Ole Warm Springs."
I ruined their country, their homes and then
I placed the blame on "Nine Old Men."

Now Franklin talked both long and loud
And the devil stood and his head he bowed.
At last he said: "Lets make it clear
You'll have to move, you can't stay here
For once you mingle with this mob,
I'll have to find another job."

[CGalen]

“Unfortunately most people don’t accept our analysis that FDR prolonged the depression.

It’s not that FDR prolonged the depression. It’s just that, like the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, he used pointy-headed academicians who had no real-world experience to theorize us out of the doldrums.”

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It is true that FDR was a disaster economically. However, he did admit many times to the public that he didnt know what he was doing with his economic programs, and that he was just trying to do as many things as he could think of, knowing that lots of things he was doing was not going to work. He said many times he is going to try something, and if it doesnt work then he will try again. I give credit to FDR for at least admitting that he was just guessing about what to do with the Great Depression. Lots of people back then and even today dont know what to do to keep us out of economic depressions. Even some of today’s economists don’t know what they are talking about.

OTOH, FDR handled WW2 brilliantly! The more I study WW2 the more credit I have to give FDR for making all the right decisions, for choosing people like Halsey, McAurther, and Eisenhower for his military leaders, for building an alliance with England and Russia to effectively squeeze germany, invading Europe via Normandy so that the Soviets would not take over Europe, the A-bomb, the way FDR created mind-numbing war time production. From Normandy to V-E Day it took FDR less than a year to defeat Hitler. Most people dont realize that WW2 could have easily been lost.

FDR was the last president to get a Congressional declaration to go to war, the last president to earnestly completely fight to win, and the last American President to win a war.

[xzins]

You are thinking in terms of politics, and Gingrich is thinking in terms of history.

Everything in the 20th century was touched by FDR after he won his first election.

The Great Depression has his mark (good or ill) on it.

He actually was a GREAT war-time president, and he had the good sense to allow generals to fight his wars, and won WWII in a 3rd of the time we’ve been in Iraq and Afghanistan throwing away a military victory on the ground in favor of a long-term loss due to nation rebuilding.

He will be perhaps forever the only president to win 4 terms.

His mark is so firmly on the nation’s intelligence community that I doubt it will ever be forgotten.

Reagan is the only other president to compete with FDR, and his contribution was HUGE! His vision and clarity brought down the Soviet Union and ended the cold war.

Unfortunately, he was limited to 2 terms, and was hampered toward the end with the machinations of Congress and political enemies as well as by his own weakening skills.

I agree with the Gingrich history lesson.

[dfwgator]

A lot of FDR’s policies were merely continuations of policies established under Hoover, but given new names.

[TomGuy]

Geez.
Following Gingrich is like a roller coaster. Once say he says something good (”Palestinians are an invented people”) the next he dishes out crap like this FDR worship.

Several weeks ago, before his new-found #1 status, I posted that Gingrich was eratic and inconsistent and that worries me.

I got skewered by the Newtbots, of course.

I have not changed my assessment. In fact, the more Newt opens his mouth, the more he proves my point. Yeah, I "believe in the environment" too, but stating that as a position is sort of dumb.

May this soon pass and we get a new flavor of the week. Otherwise, we may end up with a long-lasting case of indigestion, if Gingrich does get in the White House.

[kabar]

FDR created the US welfare state. The chickens are coming home to roost now as the welfare state is bankrupting this country. The economic consequences our country faces today pose more of a threat to our continued existence than WWII. With 54 million on SS, 47 million on Medicare, 60 million on Medicaid, and 46 million on food stamps, the culture of dependency is deeply embedded in the national psyche.

And the numbers will increase dramatically with 10,000 Americans reaching 65 every day for the next 20 years. By 2030 one out of five Americans will be 65 or older, twice what it is now. And by 2030 there will be just two workers for every retiree down from the 42 workers for every retiree when FDR created the SS system. SS is the first mandate and Obamacare will close the circle with the last mandate putting the final nail in the coffin of this country.

Liberal historians like to annoint FDR as America's greatest President in the 20th century. The reality is that FDR sowed the seeds for the eventual destruction of the Republic.

[surfer]

What do you think “real-politik Wilsonian” means?

What do you think “the four freedoms still work”?

Who do you think said that?

Yep Gingrich!!!

[ngat]

“Geez.
Following Gingrich is like a roller coaster. Once say he says something good (”Palestinians are an invented people”) the next he dishes out crap like this FDR worship.”

Don’t worry too much about it. Newt is just after Williams’ 85 y/o Aunt’s vote.

[Osage Orange]

Good post.......

[kabar]

FDR affixed his mark on this country with the creation of the welfare state. It will be the ultimate downfall of the Republic.

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

Nancy Pelosi. Newt. Couch. Global warming hoax.

Enough said.

Anyone with such poor judgment is disqualified to be a conservative standard bearer in a local election, much less for the Presidency.

Step away from the balcony Freepers.

[Georgia Girl 2]

My mother still thinks that FDR saved them from the Depression by putting everyone to work on the govt dime. Even when faced with the facts she still hedges.

[grumpygresh]

What does newt admire most about FDR? The IRS audits of political enemies, Japanese internment camps, packing the supreme court, 90% income taxes, make work jobs.
I thought zero was channeling FDR.

[Wonder Warthog]

"To all the FDR haters. WWII was not a minor dust up. 4 terms. Unfortunately most people don’t accept our analysis that FDR prolonged the depression."

Sorry. Gotta compare FDR to Reagan. It took FDR four terms and a major mobilization/war. Reagan won WWIII in two terms, with NO massive realignment for war. By any analysis, REAGAN was the greatest president of the 20th Century.