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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 07:15 AM
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How you gonna always criticize President Obama, dawg?
From Darrin Bell's "Candorville"
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 07:18 AM
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1. K&R
And furthermore, FDR had a more solidly Democratic Congress, a mandate due to the Depression, and face it, white privilege in an era that had a lot more of that.

And what did his name calling accomplish? The New Deal passed Congress - that name calling was pivotal? :rofl:

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closeupready Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 07:19 AM
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2. Roosevelt didn't worry about being an 'angry black man', true. But Roosevelt
famously quipped, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
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boston bean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 07:28 AM
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3. I'm sure Barack Obama is very proud that people think he can't be FDR-like
because he is black.

ugh.
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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 08:26 AM
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4. As I understand it, Roosevelt had *much* more to worry about than snide comments like that (nt)
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 12:54 PM
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5. Unrec
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