We need another Franklin Delano Roosevelt

[bleedingheart]

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.

[pepperlove]

1. YES!

and maybe throw in a Harry S. Truman ... glory days!

[slackmaster]

2. Harry S Truman nuked Japan

:nuke:

[bleedingheart]

3. I think FDR may have done it too

but he is dead so no one knows.

FDR funded the project behind the bomb.

[pepperlove]

7. Yep

but anyone remember Pearl Harbor? THEY attacked US? Not like * an dhis little war.

[Captain Hilts]

10. Eleanor, also, would have dropped The Bomb.

Her correspondence is full of references on how it's okay to bomb civilian populations because they work in war industries, etc.

[rockymountaindem]

4. Please please please don't turn this into another A-bomb thread.

Those always get ugly.

[slackmaster]

11. Ugly beats the living shit out of tedious

:argh:

[Selatius]

5. The last time we elected someone like that, he was killed

Certain sectors of our society simply will not tolerate that kind of populism and would react against such a proposition.

[INdemo]

13. Whats wrong with being a liberal?

Thats what it will take to get this country back on its feet

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. I'd settle for another

William Henry Harrison.

[understandinglife]

8. His name is Congressman John Conyers Jr. -- give him a call and ...

... ask him to declare his candidacy for President of the United States of America.

Thank you.


Peace.

[spuddonna]

12. Yeah, I'd vote for Conyers in a heartbeat! :)

Conyers/Boxer, Conyers/Waxman? any comments?

[Burning Water]

14. You might,

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.

[Captain Hilts]

9. Actually, we need a Harold Ickes. (nt)

[lindisfarne]

15. FDR would not make it past today's moral police.He was having anaffair n/t