bleedingheart
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Tue Sep-20-05 12:21 PM
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We need another Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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We need a modern era FDR to pull our country out of the shambles that the GOP has made of it.
We need a leader who sees the government as a vehicle to make PEOPLE'S lives better not corporations.
We need a leader who will rebuild the hurricane devastated South with programs like the CCC.
We need a leader who has the courage to admit that the nation has taken the wrong course in the war on terror and that we need to withdraw from Iraq.
We need a leader who will push for better fuel economy and push for innovation in the energy industry.
We need a leader who appreciates education and knows that the people of this country are very capable.
We need a leader who will make healthcare for all a right and not a privilege.
We need that leader and we need him or her to emerge NOW.
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pepperlove
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Tue Sep-20-05 12:22 PM
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and maybe throw in a Harry S. Truman ... glory days!
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Tue Sep-20-05 12:23 PM
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2. Harry S Truman nuked Japan |
bleedingheart
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Tue Sep-20-05 12:25 PM
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3. I think FDR may have done it too |
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but he is dead so no one knows.
FDR funded the project behind the bomb.
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Tue Sep-20-05 12:29 PM
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but anyone remember Pearl Harbor? THEY attacked US? Not like * an dhis little war.
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Tue Sep-20-05 12:38 PM
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10. Eleanor, also, would have dropped The Bomb. |
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Her correspondence is full of references on how it's okay to bomb civilian populations because they work in war industries, etc.
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Tue Sep-20-05 12:25 PM
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4. Please please please don't turn this into another A-bomb thread. |
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Tue Sep-20-05 12:38 PM
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11. Ugly beats the living shit out of tedious |
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Tue Sep-20-05 12:26 PM
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5. The last time we elected someone like that, he was killed |
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Certain sectors of our society simply will not tolerate that kind of populism and would react against such a proposition.
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Tue Sep-20-05 12:50 PM
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13. Whats wrong with being a liberal? |
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Thats what it will take to get this country back on its feet
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Tue Sep-20-05 12:27 PM
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6. I'd settle for another |
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Tue Sep-20-05 12:31 PM
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8. His name is Congressman John Conyers Jr. -- give him a call and ... |
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Edited on Tue Sep-20-05 12:38 PM by understandinglife
... ask him to declare his candidacy for President of the United States of America.
Thank you.
Peace.
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Tue Sep-20-05 12:38 PM
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12. Yeah, I'd vote for Conyers in a heartbeat! :) |
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Conyers/Boxer, Conyers/Waxman? any comments?
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Tue Sep-20-05 01:28 PM
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I might, everybody on DU might, but Conyers has as much chance of being elected President as Bush does of being re-elected. Maybe less. There's 3 years to get the Constitution amended to make him eligible for a third term.
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Tue Sep-20-05 12:37 PM
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9. Actually, we need a Harold Ickes. (nt) |
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Tue Sep-20-05 07:37 PM
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15. FDR would not make it past today's moral police.He was having anaffair n/t |
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