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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-16-08 10:24 AM
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Blogger "p.m. carpenter" on Limbaugh v. McCain (great references to FDR)
Edited on Sat Feb-16-08 10:44 AM by DemoTex
.. Rush represents what Franklin Roosevelt denounced as "government by organized money" -- "the old enemies of peace, business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism war profiteering" who were aligned in rabid opposition to the New Deal. But rather than accommodating them, rather than seeking peace with them, rather than staging pow-wows of compromise, Roosevelt announced: "I welcome their hatred." He then cleaned their clocks in the '36 election. (my emphasis)

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http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/p_m_carpenters_commentary/2008/02/reading-the-tea.html


Ru$h Limbaugh is self-destructing into pornographic marginalia and shit-house graffiti. I always figured it would end this way.



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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-16-08 01:00 PM
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1. GREAT FDR quote! We need a return of that uncompromising spirit against...
..."organized money"!
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