Posted on 08/30/2003 11:59:46 AM PDT by Cathryn Crawford
"Nobody... knows how to end them once they begin..."
Well, you socialist's claim you do.
"He was a fresh face trying new things. Sometimes that's the best humanity can expect."
Do you realize what an empty, pitiful, comment that is in light of the 100 million lives that the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt was directly and indirectly responsible for, from the Depression until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Is that all you have to say? "He was a fresh face"!
That's what my father thought. My Dad was orphaned at three in 1913, so he went through a lot of this nations history until the 60's. He said he voted for FDR twice, but began to see that Franklin was on his way to being America's first dictator. My beloved "Ol' Man", became a Republican in '42 and passed on a Republican in '65. Not long after he voted for Barry Goldwater.
You're late. Wilson did it first. FDR was his student.
All those public works projects built real things and gave real people real work but...yes that's all I have to say.
You don't even have that.
Today's 4-5% unemployed include high numbers of willingly unemployed and pure loosers. We have no idea what 15-17 % unemployment feels like.
There has been no coup. Just lot's and lot's more folks arriving everywhere. The world's most powerful country could wipe out billions of people if the leader could convince them it was worth it.
Freedom is something that humans have never had, like most of the US is in possession of now.
Ah...I missed this first time around. Yes we socialists claim we know everything and you conservatives know nothing.
Of course, it's true. Even fools know that.
Umm. I guess you're right there. So was Hitler.
Sometimes that's the best humanity can expect.
Alas.
Thanks. The inclusion of the Rockefellers into the world socialism crowed is well earned by these evil people. The best metaphor I have ever seen regarding the 1964 election is the portrayal of the Scottish/English, Battle of Fallkirk, in "Braveheart". Just as Wallace was left to defeat on the field by the Scottish "Nobles" (?), so was Goldwater left to defeat by Nelson Rockefeller in the election of '64. I wasn't old enough to vote then, but I knew it was a tragedy.
failed to get the country going again andCompare with a real president and it doesn't look so hot. Ronald Reagan
failed to prevent WWII.
got the country going again
whipped inflation
ended the energy crisis and
transcended Communism.
I was just talking to my 80 year old aunt (born 1923) this week. My husband made some disparaging remark about FDR, and she leaped to his defense, saying that "there's a lot of us that would've starved without him". I told her that many people now believe that he actually made the depression last longer, but she believes it would have been a lot worse without him. After all, he started social security so old people wouldn't have to starve...
I've never seen any evidence that Stalin thought this of Roosevelt. Could you cite your sources?
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