I welcome their hatred...

[kpete]

FDR: "For these things, too, and for a multitude of others like them, we have only just begun to fight."

Our Documents: Franklin Roosevelt's Address Announcing the Second New Deal
October 31, 1936


Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.

Those who used to have (access to the White House) are not happy. Some of them are desperate. Only desperate men with their backs to the wall would descend so far below the level of decent citizenship as to foster the current . . . campaign against America's working people.


http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/od2ndst.html

[Poboy]

1. Obama to left :"I welcome your hatred"

[rurallib]

2. sure he didn't say 'we must compromise'?

[bigtree]

10. he made many compromises

. . . of course, he didn't need 60 votes out of the 62 Democrats in the Senate at that time.

[Lint Head]

3. FDR had courage. He fought for the underdog.

He would not allow the banks or the wealthy to roll over the majority of Americans as is being done with impunity now.

[jtown1123]

15. FDR was a leader. Obama, a compromiser. We were duped.

[neverforget]

4. I wonder what FDR thinks about what's going on today.......

[sabrina 1]

5. FDR actually fought for the people. And he began, contrary

to what Obama said recently, the moment he got to the WH.

And now we have members of FDR's party assisting in the dismantling of the New Deal.

:kick:

[RufusTFirefly]

7. Next up. Social Security!

Keeping the tax cuts is going to do a number on the deficit, which in turn will put Social Security in the cross-hairs, even more so than it already is.

When they begin to dismantle it, they'll claim they had no choice.

And now -- in a sense -- they'll be right.

[sabrina 1]

12. No they won't be right. SS has nothing to do with the deficit.

Cutting it will do absolutely nothing to help reduce the deficit. It is an entirely separate fund. So when they tell people that they are blatantly lying, and I hope people will not fall for that lie.

Raising benefits for SS benificiaries would help the economy however, and the money is there to do it with. That money belongs to the American people, NOT the U.S. government and is not part of the Government's budget.

However, they have borrowed from it and want to keep borrowing, so they want that fund to grow. That is why they want to raise the retirement age and cut benefits. The fund has over a 2 trillion dollar surplus right now, doubling by 2023 even if we do nothing about it. It is that solvent! But it will have more if they cut benefits, and the war mongers can keep borrowing from it.

PLease do no fall for the lie that SS is in any way connected to the deficit.

[RufusTFirefly]

13. Believe it or not, I agree with you, sabrina

But the fear-mongering regarding SS is almost entirely based on lies. This should provide yet another opportunity for those who wish to dismantle it.

If I remember correctly, Dubya once offered up the California "energy crisis" as a reason why SS should be privatized.

[roguevalley]

8. he 'betrayed his class' and saved us. He was a four time

god and Obama will be a one time footnote in the failed presidents hall of infamy.

[rug]

11. Well, at least that's one thing they have in common.

[WillyT]

6. Hey kpete...

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=9701371

And check out post #3 too!

:hi:

:yourock:

:kick: & R !!!

[bigtree]

9. He got Social Security passed, but it was flawed at its inception

Job categories that were not covered by the act included workers in agricultural labor, domestic service, government employees, and many teachers, nurses, hospital employees, librarians, and social workers.

The act also denied coverage to individuals who worked intermittently. These jobs were dominated by women and minorities. For example, women made up 90% of domestic labor in 1940 and two-thirds of all employed black women were in domestic service. Exclusions exempted nearly half the working population.

Nearly two-thirds of all African Americans in the labor force, 70 to 80% in some areas in the South, and just over half of all women employed were not covered by Social Security. At the time, the NAACP protested the Social Security Act, describing it as “a sieve with holes just big enough for the majority of Negroes to fall through.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_%28United_States%29

[Laelth]

14. k&r for the Great FDR. n/t

-Laelth

[bobbolink]

16. I've been thinking... since the Prez isn't strong enough to say those words, maybe forming a "I

Welcome Their Hatred Club", complete with buttons, writing LTTEs, collecting enough $$$ to place ads in newspapers, etc., would be in order.

I WELCOME THEIR HATRED

Wear it proudly.

PS... this is the closest I could find: