http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/roosevelt/ en-us Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:42:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2476150/posts Something else in President Obama's speech on Friday... This isn't the first time this point of drivel has come up in the current debate on healthcare, but here's another item President Obama has used in the past and repeated again at George Mason University to buttress his case: THE PRESIDENT: A few miles from here, Congress is in the final stages of a fateful debate about the future of health insurance in America. (Applause.) It's a debate that's raged not just for the past year but for the past century. One thing when you're in the White House, you've got... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2476150/posts#comment Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:42:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2435380/posts If one goes by the Pentagon’s recent report on the Ft. Hood terrorist attack, the Pentagon’s PC putzes wouldn’t recognize a Muslim terrorist if one jumped up and bit them on the butt. So in the interest of national security, I have collected some statements made by folks over the years, which might point the Pentagon in the right direction. One lives in hope—the poor dears are awfully slow on the uptake though. “Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it…have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all... CFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2435380/posts#comment Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:22:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420075/posts Some 65 years ago, as World War II raged in Europe and the Pacific, the American people faced an unprecedented constitutional crisis of which they were completely unaware — and which has remained a secret ever since. It has long been known that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, during the last year of his life, was gravely ill with serious cardiac problems: He'd been diagnosed with acute heart failure in March 1944 and suffered from astronomically high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis. But what the public did not know was that four years earlier, while still in the second of his four... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420075/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 18:15:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414871/posts WASHINGTON -- The spirit of Christmas seems to have escaped Congress, maybe even the country. Have you ever encountered such mean spiritedness and political conniving as are now on display on Capitol Hill? In the past, we have had great philosophical divisions in the struggle for civil rights, especially when southern legislators ran the show. In praise of democracy, fortunately they lost. And of course there also was the "red scare" fomented by Sen. Joe McCarthy, R-Wis., in the 1950s when he led the commie-hunting movement that ended up victimizing government officials, academia and Hollywood. We recovered from that, too.... TheBostonChannel.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414871/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:01:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407939/posts In 1941, the Roosevelt administration commissioned a radio special, “We Hold these Truths,” to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. Listen to it here. The producer and writer was Norman Corwin (an ardent New Dealer who is still going strong at age 99). It featured an all-star cast including Orson Welles, James Stewart, Walter Brennan, and Edward G. Robinson, and closed with a speech by Roosevelt. Broadcast only a week after Pearl Harbor, it still holds the ratings record for any dramatic show. About half the American population tuned in. The actors, especially Stewart and Welles, give... Liberty and Power at the History News Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407939/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:28:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401852/posts SIXTY-EIGHT years ago tomorrow, Japan attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. In the brutal Pacific war that would follow, millions of soldiers and civilians were killed. My father — one of the famous flag raisers on Iwo Jima — was among the young men who went off to the Pacific to fight for his country. So the war naturally fascinated me. But I always wondered, why did we fight in the Pacific? Yes, there was Pearl Harbor, but why did the Japanese attack us in the first place? ... The one who had the greater effect on Japan’s... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401852/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 05:17:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365301/posts In 1909, in the great state of Illinois, school teachers one February day were directed to spend at least half the school day in public exercises, patriotic music, and recitations of sayings, verses, and speeches to mark the centennial birthday of a great hero. At the end of it all, they were to have their students face in the direction of Springfield and chant in unison the following: “A blend of mirth and sadness, smiles and tears; “A quaint knight errant of the pioneers; “A homely hero, born of star and sod; “A Peasant Prince, a masterpiece of God.” Who... The New American Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365301/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:57:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2373378/posts Much has already been made of Landesman’s comparisons of Obama to Julius Caesar. As a teacher and lifelong student of history, I find that comparison amusing on various levels. Caesar was an accomplished military leader whose campaign through Gaul was the subject of his major literary work, still available in your local Barnes and Noble. Barack Obama is an indecisive teleprompter reader whose book will certainly be long forgotten 2,000 years from now. Julius Caesar’s actions as leader of Rome turned the Republic into a dictatorial empire that later spawned such rulers as Nero and Caligula. Might the Messiah, who,... The Constitutional Alamo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2373378/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:25:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362474/posts Writing in the NYR Blog, Jonathan Freedland notes that Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded by a committee of five liberal politicians from a country whose population is half the size of London, reflecting a “Norwegian consensus” that “favors multilateralism, yearns for nuclear disarmament, and believes in international institutions, revering the United Nations above all.” The speculation in Oslo is that what clinched the award for Obama was chairing a UN meeting and “using that body as the vehicle for his disarmament ambitions.” READ THE REST AT COMMENTARYMAGAZINE.COM Commentary Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362474/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:46:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358544/posts Below are all the American Presidents and Vice Presidents who have received the Nobel Peace Prize, in order from first to most recent. It was an educational experience to review all the awards since the first was given in 1901. That bears on whether the Prize just awarded to President Obama is a positive or negative thing with respect to international war and peace. 1906 - (President) Theodore Roosevelt who “drew up the 1905 peace treaty between Russia and Japan.” This was an actual shooting war, which ended with the Treaty which Roosevelt negotiated. 1919 - (President) T. Woodrow Wilson... Special to FreeRepublic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358544/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:05:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344587/posts During his current media bombardment, President Obama is wisely downplaying the charges of racism his allies have been making. He told CNN’s John King that race wasn’t “the overriding issue” for the opponents of his health care plan. Not exactly an exoneration of his critics’ racial attitudes, but at least an acknowledgment that there is more than bigotry at work. What Obama says is really driving the negative response to his policies is fear. Fear of “big changes.” Fear of “uncertainty.” The president likes to equate the resistance he’s facing with that met by Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. The Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344587/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:31:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336969/posts NEW YORK – A government that is constitutionally required to offer each citizen a "useful" job in the farms or industries of the nation. A country whose leadership intercedes to ensure every farmer can sell his product for a good return. A nation that has the power to act against "unfair competition" and monopolies in business. This is not a description of Cuba, communist China, or the USSR until 1991. It's the vision of the future of the U.S, as mandated by a radical new "bill of rights" drawn up and pushed by President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336969/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:42:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336749/posts You owe your life — and everything else — to the sovereign. The rights of subjects are not natural rights, but merely grants from the sovereign. There is no right even to complain about the actions of the sovereign, except insofar as the sovereign allows the subject to complain. These are the principles of unlimited, arbitrary, and absolute power, the principles of such rulers as Louis XIV. Intellectuals have assiduously promoted them; think of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes. A new intellectual champion of absolutism has now emerged. Mild-mannered University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein has been advancing the... NationalReviewOnline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336749/posts#comment Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:49:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2328030/posts An economist is saying that President Hoover set the stage to worsen The Great Depression because of his pro-labor union stance. Pro-labor policies pushed by President Herbert Hoover after the stock market crash of 1929 accounted for close to two-thirds of the drop in the nation's gross domestic product over the two years that followed, causing what might otherwise have been a bad recession to slip into the Great Depression, a UCLA economist concludes in a new study. Lee E. Ohanian, a UCLA professor of economics, lays the worst of the Depression at the feet of Hoover who, in his... Publius Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2328030/posts#comment Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:28:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321945/posts   Once, when asked his philosophy, Franklin Roosevelt answered simply, "I am a Christian and a Democrat."   As always with Roosevelt, there was more to it than that. He was not just a Christian, but a Protestant, an Episcopalian, a descendant of Huguenot and Yankee New Englanders on his mother's side. And he was not just a Democrat, but a New York Democrat, whose leaders and most faithful voters were overwhelmingly Catholic, especially Irish Catholic. There was a tension, always, between this Protestant patrician and his Catholic party, a tension that this congenial country squire and shrewd politician... ic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321945/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:00:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2319815/posts I ran across this on vox and with amnesty coming up for dicussion when congress comes back, I thought I'd post it. A Quote by President Theodore Roosevelt... Aug 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM 1 comment Share Where to begin... It is always difficult to start one of these. I mean, what the hell do you put in a blog? What should you put in a blog, is probably a better question. Answer? I will figure that out later. For now, I'll post a quote from former-President of the United States, Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt. One that I believe to be... http://wilfordtibbetts.vox.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2319815/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:19:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2318021/posts  The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, has come in for some richly deserved criticism in recent months, publishing articles that have ranged from the inane (tributes to Michael Jackson and Easy Rider) to the damaging (a claim that Barack Obama is not pro-abortion). Still let's give credit where credit is due, and the latest attention-grabbing headline from L'Osservatore deserves applause.For many years now, critics of the Vatican have claimed that Pope Pius XII was silent in the face of the Holocaust. The criticism is unjustified; it ignores the ample evidence that the wartime Pontiff made great efforts, and took substantial personal... Catholic Culture http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2318021/posts#comment Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:32:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910887/posts Al Gore’s campaign against global warming is shifting into high gear. Reporters and commentators follow his every move and bombard the public with notice of his activities and opinions. But while the mainstream media promote his ideas about the state of planet Earth, they are mostly silent about the dramatic impact his economic proposals would have on America. And journalists routinely ignore evidence that he may personally benefit from his programs. Would the romance fizzle if Gore’s followers realized how much their man stands to gain? Earlier this year Gore experienced a notable public relations debacle. The Tennessee Center for... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910887/posts#comment Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:35:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283481/posts One thing to remember is that while the depression that started in 1929 may have come to a bottom in 1933, it took a long time to recover... The Daily Crux http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283481/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:14:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268583/posts On Glenn Beck's Tuesday show on Fox News, he recommended reading Franklin Delano Roosevelt's January, 1944 Speech, for a better background to what's happening today with Obama's GIANT LEAP toward's FASCISM. Here it is. Fireside Chat 28: On the State of the Union (January 11, 1944) Franklin Delano Roosevelt This transcript contains the published text of the speech, not the actual words spoken. There may be some differences between the transcript and the audio/video content. Transcript Today I sent my Annual Message to the Congress, as required by the Constitution. It has been my custom to deliver these Annual... Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268583/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:24:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2263048/posts New Deal Reality Check by: Malcolm A. Kline, June 02, 2009 As self-proclaimed intellectuals get embarassingly excited over the prospect of a new, New Deal, the rest of us would do well to take every opportunity to examine how the first one turned out. For one thing, it didn’t start under Roosevelt. In The Politically Incorrect Guide To The Great Depression And The New Deal, economist Robert P. Murphy, Ph. D., gives us a very useful comparison of what happened in another recession that occurred in the 1920s when so-called laissez-faire economics was practiced and the more famous economic collapse... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2263048/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:42:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2257558/posts Over 5,000 years ago, Moses said to the children of Israel , "Pick up your shovels, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you to the promised land." Nearly 75 years ago, Roosevelt said, "Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses, and light up a camel, this is the promised land." Now Obama is going to steal your shovels, kick your asses, raise the price of camels, and mortgage the promised land. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2257558/posts#comment Mon, 25 May 2009 01:13:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252901/posts ... [E]ven if another depression is next to impossible, there is still the danger that next year, or the year after, might turn into 1936. Let me explain. From its bottom in 1933 to 1936, the G.D.P. climbed spectacularly (albeit from a very low base), averaging gains of almost 11 percent a year. But then, both the Fed and the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt reversed course. In the summer of 1936, the Fed looked at the large volume of excess reserves piled up in the banking system, concluded that this mountain of liquidity could be fodder for future inflation,... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252901/posts#comment Sun, 17 May 2009 23:48:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252358/posts Herbert Hoover was no laissez-faire president like Calvin Coolidge, however he did respect the constitution, and he never was willing to go as far as Franklin Roosevelt. He made a speech just before Roosevelt’s election to a third term, in which he made some salient points—ones we would still be wise to consider today. With Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin in power, and with a myriad of other dictators and authoritarian powers sprinkled across Europe, it was critical that the free citizens of America see the danger of handing over the reigns of industry to government—that economic power is so much... The Heritage Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252358/posts#comment Sat, 16 May 2009 20:36:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2242799/posts He set several records as President. Theodore Roosevelt became the youngest person, so far, to become President of the United States (POTUS). The youngest to be elected remains, as of this writing, John F. Kennedy who was 43 when elected. Roosevelt was 42 when he took office as the 26th President following the assassination of his predecessor in 1901. Although other Vice Presidents had taken office following death of the President, TR was first to go on and win an election in his own right, preceding Harry S Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson in the feat. He also remains (as... Associated Content http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2242799/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2009 17:58:55 GMT