FDR stuff, take a lookie

[sandnsea]

I'm looking for quotes when they were calling FDR a communist.

I ran across this piece. Holy Snikey! There's more, this is really an interesting article. They have been turds all along. I'll post my Lincoln cartoon down in this thread. It's pretty big, but interesting too.

"At neither end of the ideological spectrum did respect for civility of discourse restrain the Roosevelt-haters. The Communist leader Earl Browder said that FDR was "carrying out more thoroughly and brutally than even Hoover the capitalist attack against the masses," and the domestic fascist William Dudley Pelley called the President the "lowest form of human worm - according to Gentile standards." One critic accused him of "blathering platitudes like a parson on vacation." and another wrote to him savagely, "If you were a good honest man, Jesus Christ would not have crippled you." It was in a formal address to the Chicago Bar Association, not in a harangue to an extremist rally, that a United States Senator from Minnesota did not hesitate to liken Roosevelt to the beast of the Apocalypse," "who set his slimy mark on everything."<4>

Roosevelt, his critics maintained, had shown himself to be a man without principles. Herbert Hoover called him a "chameleon on plaid," while H. L. Mencken said, "If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he so sorely needs, he would begin fattening a missionary in the White House backyard come Wednesday." The Sage of Baltimore declared, "I am advocating making him king in order that we may behead him in case he goes too far beyond the limits of the endurable."<5>


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/fdryears.htm

[sandnsea]

1. Lincoln cartoon

This isn't "mine", I just copied it and have it saved because I think it's just so telling. Lincoln was NO Republican in the modern sense and southern "whatevers" have always been slime. Southern meaning that group of white men who just can't seem to assimilate, they're here in Oregon too.

[ginnyinWI]

2. that helps explain my step-father-in-law

He's 80, a repub, ex-Marine WWII veteran, and says that FDR "ruined" America. (heehee--but his wife, my mother-in-law is also 80, reads the New Yorker and Atlantic, and voted for Kerry in the primary and general! But she can't talk about it at home--lol!)

[elshiva]

3. "Sage of Baltimore," indeed!

I'm sick of these RW liars whatever year they come from...