This has been posted today, but it bears repeating: FDR; GOOD! Hoover, BAD!

[Joe Fields]

For all the flat-earth, New Deal denying historical revisionists who call yourselves Americans, I am a recurring voice that you cannot get rid of. For all of your intentional misconstruing of facts to build a case for your agenda, which your weak-minded minions always follow(in lockstep. Heh, they have already elevated Sarah Palin to the head of their party. What's that tell you?) I have NEVER heard ANY liberal or progressive make the claim that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs got us out of the Great Depression.

What is widely known and cannot be disputed is that he created the jobs that kept millions from being homeless. His programs put us back on the road to recovery.

But you people love to distort the truth, and, just like the way you all distorted the truth about Al Gore "inventing" the internet, which we all know was made up by your party leaders to discredit the man who WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN PUSHING FOR THE FUNDING OF A PROGRAM THAT ENDED UP BECOMING THE INTERNET, (AND THE VICE PRESIDENT never CLAIMED ANYTHING ELSE) You are once again doing what you do best: flagrantly distorting the truth, then turning around and warning your followers that we will claim you are distorting the truth. You will also say it is a common "leftist" tactic. The TRUTH is that Roosevelt's programs wrapped a much needed tourniquet to the flat-lined economy he inherited from the lazzais-faire Hoover administration. Over time, FDR's programs reversed the trend. They did not cure the Great Depression. The war buildup did that, but I am 52 years old, and NEVER, not ONCE in my life did I EVER hear anyone from my parent's generation badmouth Franklin Roosevelt.

He could have been nominated for sainthood, at one time.

So, fuck off, all of you revisionists. As long as you keep sounding off with distortions, guys like me will be here to set things straight.

We are on to you. We have been on to you. You are transparent, and, in fact, have lost all credibility with the electorate.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Okay...

FDR: Let's all say it together...
FDR & ER: "FDR 'good', Hoover 'bad'."
ER: There, that feels better.

[deaniac21]

2. I never liked minions or mince pie.

[Staph]

3. I've just started reading ...

Traitor to His Class -- The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, by H. W. Brands. It is wonderful! And it proves quite nicely that Republicans haven't changed in at least 80 years.

Chapter 19, page 238, Roosevelt begins to explain his view of the presidency ...

Roosevelt proceeded to explain what his candidacy entailed. In radio addresses and in person he spoke, as he put it, on behalf of the "forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid." For too long, he said, government had operated for the benefit of the wealthy, consigning the poor to the margins of public life. The Hoover administration had responded to the crisis by furnishing aid to big banks and corporations. This approach was characteristic of the Republicans, Roosevelt said, and characteristically wrong. It treated ordinary men and women as secondary to the powerful firms that had long dominated American life. And it certainly hadn't done anything to alleviate the depression, which grew worse with each passing month. Roosevelt advocated "building from the bottom up," as he put it: supplying aid to those who most needed it.

[Yavin4]

4. I Asked My Depression Era Father About The Success of the New Deal

He told me, "Why do you think so many people name their kids, Franklin?"

[Joe Fields]

5. amazing, isn't it? the intentional disconnect that the repukes share.