Quiz for GayPatriot Readers
In his speech tonight, Barack Obama referred to his party as “the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy.“
Did he leave anyone out?
I mean, you know like the only Democrat save FDR to win two consecutive terms since Andrew Jackson?
9 Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI
Yep, Bill Clinton, who BY THE WAY, never got a majority of the vote. (Another little snippet the Dems love to leave out when talking about his 2 terms.)
Comment by E.N. — August 29, 2008 @ 1:11 am - August 29, 2008
He also left out Truman, whom someone noted did a great deal more than JFK. Perhaps afraid to reference a president who was incredibly unpopular at the end of his presidency, yet is now widely recognized as one of our greatest.
Comment by American Elephant — August 29, 2008 @ 1:33 am - August 29, 2008
Truman served for more than one term (1945-48, 1949-52) but was only elected once.So technically, Truman didn’t win 2 Presidential elections.
Food for thought: How many present day Democrats do you know would ever say “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for our country?”
Comment by Right Turn — August 29, 2008 @ 1:47 am - August 29, 2008
He also left out Carter.
Roosevelt and Kennedy would not support defeat in Iraq. We can argue about whether they would have supported going in - I say they would have, because Roosevelt got us into Europe in WW2 and Kennedy got us into Vietnam - but whether they would have gotten us in or not, I’m fairly confident that they would not have supported the Obama-Biden-Carter policies of defeat.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — August 29, 2008 @ 11:02 am - August 29, 2008
He may have omitted President Clinton in that particular passage, but he praised Clinton in his opening remarks and later made references to Clinton’s record as President.
Comment by Jack Allen — August 29, 2008 @ 11:41 am - August 29, 2008
#4 — “…Roosevelt got us into Europe in WW2.” ?? I think Nazi Germany’s declaration of war against the United States on December 9, 1941, had quite a bit to do with it.
Comment by Jack Allen — August 29, 2008 @ 11:46 am - August 29, 2008
Jack, of course. So obvious. But by today’s standards - and by that, I mean the standards of today’s crazy left-liberals - please note the following:
- “It was Japan that attacked us.”
- “Roosevelt provoked
Putin to invade GeorgiaSaddam to invade Kuwait and develop WMDGermany to attack our Atlantic shipping.”I’ve constructed those arguments two against U.S. intervention in the European theater of WW2 as exact equivalents of the left’s bogus arguments against the Iraq war. I can’t know, but I do suspect, that Roosevelt would never buy them.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — August 29, 2008 @ 12:48 pm - August 29, 2008
As for Roosevelt provoking Hitler’s declaration - again, NOT what I really think, but what some of today’s liberals really think and have said on occasion - just look at the Lend-Lease Act, whereby from Hitler’s point of view we ‘hurt’ him and Germany by militarily arming Britain.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — August 29, 2008 @ 12:54 pm - August 29, 2008
Not to mention the fact that FDR was illegally selling ships and planes to England and THEN asking congress for permission after the deals were done.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — August 30, 2008 @ 12:22 am - August 30, 2008