Now and then I take this clipping off my fridge and reread it..

[JohnnyRingo]

...and I tear up as I remember what we Democrats stand for.

I've had it stuck on my refrgerator since I cut it from my local paper almost 15 years ago.

While the author's name is long forgotten, his message is as relevant today as it was then. As long as a Republican in power is drawing his breath, the threat to the working class is relentless and unwavering:

[NJCher]

1. that's beautiful

beautifully said.

Thank you Arthur _____, whoever and wherever you are.

And thank you for scanning it in and posting for us, Johnny Ringo.



Cher

[cascadiance]

8. It wouldn't be the late Arthur C. Clarke would it?

That looks like a C next to his name...

[DavidDvorkin]

10. Not likely, given that he was a Brit.

[JohnnyRingo]

12. No... It was written by a local man here in Warren Ohio

I didn't purposely tear that corner off, it was lost to years of hanging in my kitchen before I got a computer. I just can't remember his name anymore.

Sometimes it's good to listen to common older people because they can warn us against repeating history.

[liberalhistorian]

26. My former home state of Ohio, where most of my family

and friends still live, has been hit very hard by Repubs these past fifteen years. By the time the state wised up and quit voting the same repukes in over and over, albeit in different state positions as they played Musical State Cabinet Jobs, the damage had been done and it looks like it's almost too late for Strickland and company to fix it. And I'm sure the same hateful, corporate-shill repukes responsible for the mess are busy putting the blame on the Dems instead of looking in the fucking mirror (I'm looking at you, Voinovich and Taft (useless do-nothing who coasted on the laurels of his family name for eight years while the state burned) and Blackwell and Petro and Montgomery and on and on and on).

[Blue_Tires]

37. how old is the letter?

[Cronus Protagonist]

16. Also, I'm pretty sure he would be able to spell correctly

lol

[Lancer]

2. Well said.

Alas, ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.

[4 t 4]

5. Wow That is Beautiful

and so sad. Do you remember by chance what paper that was from? This time around with President Obama we need to make some very drastic And Permanent changes.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Wow!

FDR: Isn't that just grand!
ER: Indeed it is! Bravo!
FDR: Johnny Ringo 'gets' it.
ER: Yes, he does, the dear.

[demmiblue]

4. That gave me the chills... thanks for sharing!

[Still Sensible]

6. Should be on everybody's refrigerator!

eom

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Agreed. Kick and rec! n/t

[rvablue]

7. HOW. VERY. COOL. Thanks for posting! n/t

[samplegirl]

11. Don't let your heart bleed today...

Obama will be our FDR!!! If we have to huddle I'll be beside you.


K&R

[MrsBrady]

13. kick to the top & R

[Coexist]

14. .

[mdmc]

15. nice find

[glitch]

17. Thank you for posting this JohnnyRingo. It's going on my fridge. nt

[beac]

18. K&R! n/t

[Laelth]

19. Your Setvenson sig reminds me that our struggles are not new. k&r

n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[JohnnyRingo]

20. And you sigline reminds me that we've made recent headway

But as I say: "as long as a Republican in power draws his breath......."

[Laelth]

21. You're right, of course.

It's entirely possible, however, that the R party is on path of certain destruction. If you haven't seen this essay, I highly recommend it.

http://www.regressiveantidote.net/Articles/What_To_Do_When_Your_Party_Sucks.html

:dem:

-Laelth

[liberalhistorian]

28. Exactly. My paternal grandparents grew up during

the Depression and they hated republicans to their dying day. It was very painful for them when one of my aunts married a rabid Reaganite and proceeded to trash everything he believed in, right in front of him.

[Maat]

31. Oh, that would have been rough.

My paternal grandparents essentially raised, and talked to me also about the Great Depression. I think that Hubby and I have been prepared for it BECAUSE of them; or, should I say, anything we've done right I credit to their teachings.

[Kaleko]

22. That one hits home.

Bulls eye.

[Kajsa]

23. What a great letter!

I'm going to copy it and post it on
my refrigerator,too.

His words ring as true today as they did
when he wrote this.

Thanks so much for sharing this.

:)

[Deep13]

24. FDR's greatness is pretty hard to overstate.

In addition to everything else he did, his intervention laid the foundation for the polio vaccine. He urged Americans to send him a dime for polio research and that first fund-raiser for the March of Dimes resulted in over a million dollars in dimes. That's why it is now the Roosevelt dime.

[Beavker]

36. If you listen to CNBC esteemed Octobox of Idiots

His actions didn't do anything to help the economy, as all money injections from the Federal Government does not. History shows that it does not help.

Hmmm, I beg to differ. So does old Arther here I suppose!

[Deep13]

38. All that money from the government must have gone bad...

...sitting on the shelf or something. These Cato idiots seem to forget that cash is cash no matter where it comes from. I heard one economist on NPR a couple weeks ago who said that the real shortcoming of the New Deal was that FDR didn't spend enough money to replace the damaged private sector. But what he did spend knocked unemployment from 30% down to about 10%. And if WW2 wasn't government spending, then how did we pay for it?

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. K&R

[uberblonde]

27. Thanks, I needed that.

Now if only President Obama stops listening to the voices of "moderation"....

[zipplewrath]

29. Sounds like my father

He lived through the Great Depression. He said that for all the bluster of the folks that hated FDR, when he was elected, people started getting food, and jobs. And they were thankful to FDR. And no amount of bluster since was ever going to change those folks minds.

[Greyhound]

30. The window's still open, but Obama does not have a lot of time. Will he step up?

:kick: & R

[defendandprotect]

32. Remember that FDR was also being pushed in the right direction . . .

because many were moving to the Communist Party which was making clear the

need for social/retirement programs -- and I believe that Huey Long was also

quite out there speaking for a populist agenda?

Right now we're decades into right wing political violence which has disappeared

all progressive/liberal leadership!

[11 Bravo]

33. That's a beautiful thing, JohnnyRingo. (Now I feel badly about rooting for Doc Holliday.)

Thanks for sharing.

[ooglymoogly]

34. My mother, one of the Rosie the Riveters, told me when I was

growing up, that untold millions spontaneously came out in the streets and wept for sometimes days when FDR died while serving his fourth term in the Whitehouse. She spoke of him as if he were a god.

Beware the pukes and some on this site trying to rewrite the wonderful, almost fairytale, history about this greatest of men who made the lives of virtually every man woman and child of this country far better than it would have been without him. Much of that wonderment still exists today though every year the pukes whittle away at it considering his legacy their worst enemy and many of the dems are either complicit, getting paid off, or just don't get it. I am hoping that O does get it and he will be as great to mankind as was FDR to "we the People" and the world and the generations to come.

[JohnnyRingo]

40. I had a similar experience

Before I was ten, my mother explained to me how bad Hoover was and how only democrats help the working people. She would get adament about how evil the republicans were and cried openly when Kennedy was shot.

She gloated that Pat Nixon had to continue to wear a cloth coat, and welcomed civil rights and women's health legislation. She made sure I registered to vote at my first opportunity in 1972 for McGovern (it didn't take much).

I didn't know then that my mother only had four more years to live, and when I step up to a voting machine now, I'm sure she'd still be proud of her son.

It's clear your mother must be equally proud.

[Beavker]

35. After that, why is there even a Republican Party at all?

Hopefully our latest dilemma will help take care of this. Latest Gallup shows that more people, by a huge margin however, think that Infrastructure will help more than Tax Cuts. Yes, America still differs from the GOP, yet they still keep pounding that drum. Incredible. We need ALL independents to get on board and more Re-pukes to Retire as they are now.

Let's go people! There's no I in USA! Can't spell USA without "us". "United" States...not "The 50+ States and Territories of America".

[deaniac21]

39. Isn't that a daisy!

[TheUnspeakable]

41. kick-yesterday, I saw 3 people on my teevee..

Glen Beck,Sen John Ensign,Sen Mitch Mconnel all saying, matter of factly, The new deal didn't work, blah blah blah,, They KNOW they're lying, just to let the stimulus fail. This has to stop!!