Recall this began with the GayLeftBorg poster child calling for a tribute to FDR. Try to stay on topic, eh? Otherwise we’ll wonder if you’re lazy and evidenced by an attention deficit.

Should I then think that anyone who claims to be a righteous christian is really have sex and taking meth with a prostitute? I don’t think so. And wasn’t it Newt Gingrich who served his first wife with divorce papers while she was in hospital being treated for cancer? I coulduse him as an example that republicans are all philanderers as well. but I won’t.

There are already too many useless blogs cluttering the “internets” as it is.

Most of those are nothing more than ego trips from “nobodies” who think their assholes smell better, somehow. than everyone elses’. Quite humorous, when you think about it

I suggest you beg others to close their blog sites, which would make more sense. I know several places where you can start.

Meanwhile, I’ll just post an ocassional note here until Bruce and Dan can stop reeling from their Dunkirk and get their, much overdue, talking points from the repugnants up and running again.

Reminds me of that guy on TV when they take his Blackberry away. Totally lost.

I feel their pain.

monty

I wrote that aside from either slavery or slaughter on the plains, the internment of Japanese-Americans was the country’s worst moment of racism –and FDR presided over it. FDR felt –like lots of and lots of Democrats today– civil rights (like voting) ought to be extended to those constitutencies which will help the Democrats and no others. And like lots of Democrats today, he was a philandering, ego-centric political hack who deliberately violated more Constitutional provisions in the first term of office than Hillary will ever be able to gore.

Ask monty to let go of your nose ring and do try to think on your own for a little, for once. It’s positively liberating, Kevin. Plus monty can then attend to the latest message from the GayLeftBorg… and get that blog of his finally going… lol.

If you really want a new post: kindly try opening your own blog.

Buh-bye!

They don’t care about facts. Haven’t you noticed?

Anyway….this place is a ghost town.

monty

monty

monty

Your description of his presidency is a horrible twisting of the facts and outright lies as they exist, something conservatives in this country are becoming quite adept at, especially with mr stratergery in the white house. I do agree that internment/imprisonment of Japense americans was the biggest and most horrible mistake of his presidency. I’m sorry, but how exactly was FDR responsible for the enslavement of blacks in this country? He helped advance civil rights more than any other president until that time and actions taken during his years helped advance the civil rights movement into the modern age and the civel rights movements of the 50s and 60s.

And by the way, why do you assume that no republican has ever had an extramarital affair?

But one of your points is solid: There are tons of other sites to do FDR tributes. Dan is under zero obligation, Chase, to do everything.

I want to add that FDR’s reputation in supposedly “saving capitalism” is way overrated. You can’t “save capitalism” by abandoning it for near-dictatorial socialism, which is what FDR’s “First New Deal” was. Which is why the Supreme Court found it unconstitutional and gutted it. And which is why the “First New Deal”, in fact, prolonged the Depression. (Just google “Roosevelt Recession of 1936″. Or check out this book.)

Why would any reader of history or student of modern political thought give FDR anything more than passing reference? Why would any patriot? A tribute? Good God… go over to MyDD for that nonsense.

FDR was, in the best Democrat tradition, a philandering, ego-centric, pompous boor who mismanaged the US and brought about the most burdensome and ill-intentioned growth in the welfare state –bar none. Not even JimmineyCricket or SlickWilly outdid FDR on that latter point.

On the war front, he misled America and put us directly into the last century’s largest, most bloodiest, most costly war –one we’re still trying to pay off. He lied to Americans and invited, goaded, and near begged the Japanese to attack… at a terrible cost. He put our resources and men in Harm’s Way in 2 theatres even though Congress had specifically denied him that option.

Aside from the genocide of American Natives and the enslavement of African blacks, he presided over the country’s worst moment of racist, zenophobic action by ordering the internment of American citizens of Japanese ancestory.

And if all that wasn’t bad enough… he allowed science to unleash nuclear power as a weapon of war and destruction. Let alone his complicity in the division of Europe. Let alone… oh, how we could go on.

FDR deserves a tribute? Ha. He deserves to be held up as a model of the American presidency run to ruin. He deserves any student of history’s scorn. But Chase, I appreciate how you think he deserves a tribute… that LifeLongDemocrat button must be shining like new. Buff it somewhere else, ok?

#21 – You can find a ton of great Churchill quotes here: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/winston_churchill.html

Among my faves:

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”