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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Sat Feb 1, 2014, 06:39 PM Feb 2014

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F.D.R...One of our greatest Presidents..

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F.D.R...One of our greatest Presidents.. (Original Post) Playinghardball Feb 2014 OP

And no Civil/Voting rights for minorities. bravenak Feb 2014 #1

Plus, that whole thing where he saved the world (nt) Nye Bevan Feb 2014 #2

You know why the US was "the global economic superpower"? Spider Jerusalem Feb 2014 #3

k&r for the truth. n/t Laelth Feb 2014 #4

....and despised by the Bush Family.... KauaiK Feb 2014 #5

Plus one other result the graphic omits: Jim Lane Feb 2014 #6

bravenak

(34,648 posts)

1. And no Civil/Voting rights for minorities.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sat Feb 1, 2014, 06:41 PM

Feb 2014

I guess it wasn't our turn yet.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)

2. Plus, that whole thing where he saved the world (nt)

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sat Feb 1, 2014, 06:45 PM

Feb 2014

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)

3. You know why the US was "the global economic superpower"?

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sat Feb 1, 2014, 06:46 PM

Feb 2014

It wasn't because of FDR. It was because of two things: WWII destroyed the industrial capacity of Europe and Japan and it took them decades to recover, and the US was fortunate enough to have massive amounts of coal and oil (the US produced FIFTY PERCENT of all of the world's oil in 1950). The economic scenario of the immediate post-WWII years where the USA was the only major industrial country left standing, and was self-sufficient in energy, are never going to return.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)

4. k&r for the truth. n/t

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sat Feb 1, 2014, 07:29 PM

Feb 2014

-Laelth

KauaiK

(544 posts)

5. ....and despised by the Bush Family....

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sat Feb 1, 2014, 07:56 PM

Feb 2014

who swore to undo all of the New Deal because he closed the Bush Family bank that was financing the Third Reich.

Read your history people!!

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)

6. Plus one other result the graphic omits:

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sun Feb 2, 2014, 04:43 AM

Feb 2014

Decades of Democratic political dominance except when the Republicans ran a war hero.

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