Comments on: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Hillary Haters and the Roosevelts

By: 1950democrat

1950democrat — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:41:52 +0000

Isn’t it more like, Bill’s term was FDR and Hillary’s is Truman? Bill’s term showed us how the economy could be fixed and things could run well. Hillary’s job is to defend and continue that deal, hopefully with a better congress.

Hillary doesn’t need to grow into the office: the Clinton team already did enough growing in 1992-2000 to balance the budget, keep us out of wars except the one they won with iirc zero US casualties, etc etc.

Give ‘em hell, Hillary!

(Sorry, a little nostalgia there….)

By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:38:40 +0000

I think Biden’s a loud-mouthed dipstick (with occasional flashes of sanity), but even he’d be better than any of the Republicans.

FDR wasn’t even FDR until he took office; we have no choice but to toss the Dem dice and hope whoever it is grows into the office.

By: DC Madman

DC Madman — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:32 +0000

I’m sold, Hillary’s FDR. The rest of the top Democratic presidential candidates would be too if they were truly principled Democrats. Kucinich and Dodd better represent what FDR stood for.

By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:51:58 +0000

From the old folks I’ve talked to who were alive during the early days of the Great Depression, many were convinced either we were going to have a Communist or fascist dictatorship — Russia or Mussolini’s Italy. They also didn’t think the aristocratic and wealthy FDR would do much — he was just a tad better than the loathed Hoover, who did nothing.

Seems like we’re going to have to dodge that bullet again as the economy crumbles.

By: greyhawk

greyhawk — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:43:45 +0000

FDR knew from the very start that the way to restore the economy was to provide security for those hit the hardest by the depression. Ever since then the conservatives have tried to take that security away. I wonder if they realize how close we came to a left wing communistic style goverment(i.e. Huey Long).

By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:35:07 +0000

It’s curious that the Moneyed Elite would hate FDR so, but one explanation would be that they wanted it all for themselves and they resented him giving away even a fraction to the poor to keep the peace.

As we’ve seen with Bush and his privileged cronies, that’s the bizarre and stupid way these rich folk think.

Someone once said that first generation riches — the ‘self-made’ kind — usually results in a decent person with money but succeeding generations come to think of wealth as an entitlement. They also, as the Hapsburgs, the House of Windsor, and Junior and Neil Bush prove, tend to inter-breed and produce more than their share of idiots.

By: Rainlander

Rainlander — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:10:21 +0000

My position during the first Clinton administration was that it kept the Neo-Cons too
busy trying to bring down My president for them to work thier hidden agenda,the agenda that never is spoken of on the Sunday morning political shows but which after these seven long and bloody years have manifested itself similar to the horsemen of the apocolypse.