"Let Me Warn You" About the GOP FDR 1936 Speech

[damnedifIknow]

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And yet we compromise with the Republicans? Why?

[msongs]

1. "I welcome their hatred" vs I will appease them nt

[damnedifIknow]

2. We could use FDR about now

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

[L0oniX]

3. K & R

[PinkFloyd]

4. I wish he was our president right now.

FDR was always and probably always will be my favorite American politician of all time. However, I never knew the man was a prophet.

RIP good man.

[Gregorian]

5. My dad has talked about hearing him on the radio. It always feels nostalgic.

But it also feels sad in the way that we have seemed to learn nothing. I always yearned for politics to be like a game where the good side eventually beat the bad side, and the game was over. But it's a continual struggle. A tug of war. And hearing FDR makes me feel tired of being dragged down by the fools.

The good news is- Thatcher's dead!

[lobodons]

6. We did

We did turn it over to them in 2000 (well the SCOTUS did anyway) and look at how well that turned out. FDR was turning over in his grave saying, "I told you so!"

[Moostache]

7. That depresses me now...in 2008 I thought Obama would be a transcendental figure like FDR...

Holy cripes was I wrong.

He had the oratory skills to make me believe in him and to reassure me that, even though the economy was in free-fall and the things I had struggled for seemed to be a risk by the hour - my career, my house, my kid's educations- President Obama's stump speech and campaign made me believe that better things could still happen in America.

Its too bad that everything since has been a long series of self-negotiations, half-measures and missteps. There's still time left for President Obama, but his speeches are not echoing FDR's principles when he talks about CPI and being party to the dis-assembly of Social Security just as my mom and dad are starting to need it more than ever as they live out their final years.

[blackspade]

10. I hear you on that.

[JDPriestly]

8. FDR -- our greatest president of all time.

[mother earth]

9. FDR, we so need you now. K & R nt

[Eberly]

11. Maybe we get the president we deserve.

If the voters had given Obama the majorities in congress and the senate that they gave FDR them Obama may have been that transformational president. Someone once said that the voters get the president they deserve. Maybe we didn't want it as badly as the voters during the Great Depression did. People were dying for unions them. When we suffer like they did (and we will until we stick together) maybe we will work as hard as we want our president to.

[hrmjustin]

12. Welcome to DU Eberly!