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To: Non-Sequitur
Without the harm caused by Southern presidents like Wilson and LBJ and Carter and Clinton and Bush I think that FDRs excesses would have been reigned in by Congress and the Supreme Court...

That makes no sense at all. FDR was president decades BEFORE all of the other men you listed except Woodrow Wilson. How did the harm they caused prevent FDR from being reined in by the Supreme Court?

672 posted on 04/21/2010 6:42:48 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: WayneS
That makes no sense at all. FDR was president decades BEFORE all of the other men you listed except Woodrow Wilson. How did the harm they caused prevent FDR from being reined in by the Supreme Court?

Southern hyperbole aside, Wilson and FDR did more to establish the concept of a big, intrusive government than anyone else. Without the support of the 'solid south' and it's leadership in the House and Senate would FDR have been able run amuck to the extent that he did? Without FDRs example, would LBJ or Carter or Clinton done the damage they did?

Since the rebellion we've had 9 Democrats in the White House. Five of them have been Southerners. A sixth wouldn't have been elected without the South. Without the damage done by them then the U.S. would be a much different place.

677 posted on 04/21/2010 7:09:04 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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