Roosevelt, The Best President
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YodaFan465 — 20 years ago(May 08, 2005 04:06 PM)
FDR a great person? I think not. He didn't get us out of the Depression as he promised, and he dragged us into a World War. Even before Pearl Harbor, he was selling weapons to the belligerents and "conquering" places like Iceland and Newfoundland.
He even sent troops into the Philippines to "watch" the Japanese. If we had no intention of getting into the war (he always pledged to stay neutral, despite engaging in the Atlantic Charter), why was my great-uncle forced into combat with the Japanese before Pearl Harbor? Because of FDR, my great-uncle Frank Yonan (look him up if you don't believe me) had to 2000spend 3+ years in a Japanese prison camp. Ever hear of the Bataan Death March? My great-uncle was there, and it was FDR's fault. We shouldn't have been in Manila before Pearl Harbor.
Another note, FDR did nothing to free the Bataan prisoners. I believe that they received a total of 2 Red Cross care packages, but I KNOW that Uncle Frank had to free himself from the camps. MacArthur, who abandoned his troops, didn't come to liberate our boys from Bataan.
FDR a great person? I think not.
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Balberith — 20 years ago(August 25, 2005 09:56 PM)
Well by the time the Yalta conference took place in February of 1945 Roosevelt was pretty much senile. His worst moment by far was putting Japanese Americans in internment camps without the apporval of congress.
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Idocamstuf — 20 years ago(September 11, 2005 07:53 PM)
FDR was at the very least the best president of the twentieth century. He brought America hope during one of the darkest periods in our history. Not to mention his programs that created millions of jobs for hard working Americans, and his creation of social security in 1935. We need more presidents like FDR, somebody with the true integrity to fight for the average hard working American and not back down. FDR will always be my picture of how a true American president should be.
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manny535 — 20 years ago(September 17, 2005 07:19 PM)
FDR was the best presidents of the 20th Century. He championed the common man and restored hope the nation. For the time being, the entire country decided that he was the savior. But like all men, his public charm masked his private struggles.
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tim0122 — 20 years ago(January 16, 2006 06:22 PM)
Ok I don't know if anyone else has said this but I don't think a lot of people credit FDR for getting the USA out of the great depression but they do credit him for Greatly making the USA better and
imrpoving people's lives during the great depression.
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weezer-20 — 19 years ago(April 15, 2006 08:24 AM)
I don't understand how anybody could see FDR as a bad president. Most people just don't realize the enormity of the situation Roosevelt entered. He dealt with both of the biggest emergencies in the 20th century (the Great Depression and World War II) and he managed to preserve our democracy (it is nonsense to consider FDR's America anywhere near Soviet-style socialism). His critics fail to realize that shortly after the stock market crash, the country was on a verge of a communist (or perhaps even a fascist) revolution. The crisis was so bad that fringe extreme left figures like Huey Long and Charles Coughlin were expressing what were considered to be mainstream views in the climate of economic ruin and capitalist failure. In this climate, FDR was anything but a socialist; he was a moderate, even right wing according to Long.
This, in addition to FDR being elected four times in a row, and several opponents of his openly breaking down and expressing their admiration for the man on the news of his death. Historians (liberal and conservative alike) generally agree without question that FDR, despite his flaws, was the best president of the 20th century.
In my view, he was our best president. He saw the character of America and put the fate of our democracy, and the fate of our world, in our hands. Before Roosevelt America was a wealthy but weak banker for the European nations. After Roosevelt it was transformed into the most powerful nation in the world. He knew something about us that no other politician did, and he trusted us by giving us the world. We are living in the world he envisioned - not Hitler's world, or Stalin's world or even Churchill's world. We should all be very grateful. -
tjvs — 19 years ago(May 02, 2006 12:15 AM)
roosevelt was a warmonger who was led by 73 jewish "advisers" who pushed america into a war it had no buisness in don't beleive look it up i'll name just a few bernard baruch jokingly called the "real" president sam rosenman his speechwriter, felix frankfurter,ben cohen henry morgenthau,stephen wise and many more kinda like the jews behind bush like wolfowitz, pearle, kristoll and company
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coxm-1 — 18 years ago(July 12, 2007 06:13 AM)
"roosevelt was a warmonger who was led by 73 jewish "advisers" who pushed america into a war it had no buisness in don't beleive look it up i'll name just a few bernard baruch jokingly called the "real" president sam rosenman his speechwriter, felix frankfurter,ben cohen henry morgenthau,stephen wise and many more kinda like the jews behind bush like wolfowitz, pearle, kristoll and company"
And here I thought Hitler was dead. Apparently he's alive and posting on the net as tjvs.