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In reply to the discussion: This is what a REAL Democrat sounds like. [View all]KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)6. You'd probably have called him sell-out & rejected Social Security cause it didn't cover everybody
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*sigh* most DU'er bleating about the Third Wayer Corporatist Authoritarians would have hated FDR
KittyWampus
Dec 2014
#7
With very few exceptions, the "left" of today in the US bears utterly no similarity to the
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#93
Even Eleanor said she'd be inclined to support Wallace if FDR wasn't running nt
dflprincess
Dec 2014
#149
Hunt never said the CIA has literally controlled every President from LBJ to Obama.
merrily
Dec 2014
#148
Post that on a Communist board. Most of America, esp traditional Dems, revered him.
merrily
Dec 2014
#167
I've got to say I am a bit sick of this false characterization that he "sponsors the TPP."
MADem
Dec 2014
#101
Thank you for your post, MADem.. President Obama is the punching bag. .facts be damned.
Cha
Dec 2014
#125
If people are demanding no criticism against Obama here, they aren't at all successful.
MADem
Dec 2014
#180
And he didn't let that stop him from providing for the people who elected him. In fact
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#3
His own class made a FORTUNE off of WW2, that more than compensated for the taxes they paid in
MADem
Dec 2014
#18
They're not friends of yours? I was referring to President Obama who when asked about the
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#27
Don't ask me those questions, I despise Reagan. Ask Obama why he admired him so much.
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#36
That book was written in 1980 and is often quoted by conservatives to tear Carter down.
MADem
Dec 2014
#138
FDR did not integrate anything because Party loyalty and "pragmatism" directed those actions.
merrily
Dec 2014
#132
I doubt you--or anyone here -- would be "meh" -ing if GW Bush tried to pack the court
MADem
Dec 2014
#153
As long as we're doing hypotheticals, I doubt everyone here would be upset if Obama did it.
merrily
Dec 2014
#154
He never tried it? It's in the history books! He most certainly "tried" it--otherwise,
MADem
Dec 2014
#158
As I said twice before, we know he threatened and we know it never happened. All else is
merrily
Dec 2014
#159
I'm not speculating about anything. If he didn't try it, it wouldn't have been recorded in history
MADem
Dec 2014
#161
The reality of FDR is he was chastised by the Far Left and many DU'ers would have called him
KittyWampus
Dec 2014
#8
FDR's social programs have saved millions of lives. Since then every greedy, Wall St crook has tried
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#37
Where is anyone in this thread declaring "FDR's social programs DID NOT SAVE any lives?"
MADem
Dec 2014
#42
Who's doing that? Not me. I am a pragmatist. I see the man as he was, warts and all.
MADem
Dec 2014
#22
Could you please show me where the OP is trying to get us to believe that FDR was perfect?
Luminous Animal
Dec 2014
#50
And the Civil Rights Act and Nixon's Southern Strategy were the reasons we lost it.
MADem
Dec 2014
#56
That's the very point! No one can know--it's an exercise in an Unprovable Thesis. nt
MADem
Dec 2014
#58
My grandfather was a black man born in the late 1800's who was an FDR man
TheKentuckian
Dec 2014
#74
Lucky him. Not sure who you are accusing of "generaliz(ing) to lie" but that sounds pretty uncivil
MADem
Dec 2014
#78
Who, would you say, are the ideological equivalents of Frances Perkins and Henry Wallace
MannyGoldstein
Dec 2014
#51
Those kinds of comparisons are pointless. It's not 1933 and we're not in the midst of a Great
MADem
Dec 2014
#52
You may be right in some respects, but most of us who criticize Obama do not hate him.
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#109
He understands that "living to fight another day" is more important than blowing one's powder all
MADem
Dec 2014
#116
A corporatist hated by The Corporatists, who vilified him to the point than many simply referred to.
LanternWaste
Dec 2014
#135
Warren was nurtured on the same New Deal Policies that most of my generation benefited from
whathehell
Dec 2014
#72
You'd probably have called him sell-out & rejected Social Security cause it didn't cover everybody
KittyWampus
Dec 2014
#6
Really? FDR fully explained his plans for SS AND he had a tendency to ACT FAST on
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#39
"I doubt eg FDR would be pushing the TPP ..." Who knows but he did push for lower tariffs, the IMF,
pampango
Dec 2014
#48
The Democratic Party became a liberal party largely through the "New Deal" policies of FDR
RiverLover
Dec 2014
#21
You know who down plays and disparages FDR and hates liberals? Far right Republicans
TheKentuckian
Dec 2014
#25
Conservatives have tried to make liberal a dirty word, but there are those of us who have refused
liberal_at_heart
Dec 2014
#111
Eleanor was the real "true" Democrat, probably the most "real" Democrat
mountain grammy
Dec 2014
#73
Before that, he was too busy saving the US while fighting the SCOTUS, Congress, and Hitler and
merrily
Dec 2014
#130
Yes, FDR got the SCOTUS to do what he wanted without packing it. That was the genius of it.
merrily
Dec 2014
#182
So it's not a cancer claim because you could have meant something else
Progressive dog
Jan 2015
#188
Whatever, dude. You don't like my replies, don't keep posting to me on a thread from Dec 5, 2014.
merrily
Jan 2015
#189
"Fuck the corporatists and their enablers." Boy you sure pissed off some 'liberals' with those words
Rex
Dec 2014
#83
Well they pretended there was a purge, then they pretended everyone here wanted purity.
Rex
Dec 2014
#122
It would have, if so many leftists hadn't been banned or didn't give up. As it is, it's over 100.
merrily
Dec 2014
#128
Yep. I still remember the gist of Katie Couric's intro to showing the clip at about 7 am
merrily
Dec 2014
#129
Love to see the dude dressed in a tuxedo for the occasion of a radio address, hahaha!
beerandjesus
Dec 2014
#133