Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Kaslin

It was always perplexing to me the reverence that my parents had for FDR.

My father...a republican...was always averse to criticizing FDR, or any president. When I was complaining about Carter, and or Clintoon, or even said that FDR was wrong, that his policies made the recession of the 30’s worse, etc I was shushed down as though one didn’t speak badly of the president.

My mother...a registered republican but a democrat at heart...would always say you weren’t there and her life during the depression was much worse than my father’s. when I would specifically delineate why FDR was bad for the US.

Obama is just as bad as FDR...maybe worse. The difference is that the media monopoly that existed in the 1930’s....the local newspaper and network radio, severely limited the information getting to the public, the timeliness of news and the near universal tone of reverence for FDR and the contempt of those who opposed his policies.

Now there is the internet, TV, talk radio, and the instant media, so Obama cannot operate in the the same vacuum that FDR did. Obama has tried to to operate in a similar vacuum, but the information back-fill is almost instantaneous and they can’t get a good seal on the bell jar.


8 posted on 10/13/2012 5:39:07 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Ouderkirk; mickie
"It was always perplexing to me the reverence that my parents had for FDR".

The reverence is still here. Droves of the retirees living in Florida and elsewhere flock to the polls every election and are still voting for Roosevelt as their families did before them.

The recollection I have of my Irish grandma's kitchen is the two framed photographs on the wall above the ice box, FDR and Pope Pius, surrounded by two crumbling palm leaves appropriated from Sunday mass.

I maintain that FDR was the first presidential cult figure, achieving that position mostly through poor education, ignorance and superstitions infecting the electorate at the time.....some of which still lingers today.

Obama now is the second presidential cult leader in our history. JFK came close with the Camelot bunch, etc. but his followers were not uneducated and emotionally crazy.....and he never was a genuine political cult leader.

Obama's cult followers are true believers, their adoration of him based again on political, economic and cultural ignorance, unchecked emotions, unbridled greed and envy, unrealistic hopes and pathetic dependency on a supposed messiah and savior. Many would actually drink the doctored Kool-Ade for him.

The question is not whether "Obama will never be as bad as FDR".....the question is, and should be, "Are the cult followers of Obama more or less dangerous to our society than the cult followers of FDR were and are?"

The answer is obvious.

13 posted on 10/13/2012 6:13:01 AM PDT by MinuteGal
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: Ouderkirk

When my mother, born in 1917, moved out of Detroit to Plymouth 29 years ago, she refused to look at a house on Roosevelt Street.
FDR may have been worse economically, but he didn’t carry the “hate America” baggage too. In multiple ways, Obama is purposely laying siege to the US from within.


16 posted on 10/13/2012 6:24:46 AM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: Ouderkirk

I know what you mean. My parents are both Catholic Republicans who are conservative and they both would NEVER speak ill of JFK. They don’t particularly like Teddy but JFK is someone not to speak negatively about. Me I am a conservative who happens to be Republican (Catholic as well).


25 posted on 10/13/2012 8:01:12 AM PDT by napscoordinator (GOP Candidate 2020 - "Bloomberg 2020 - We vote for whatever crap the GOP puts in front of us.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson