[clee1]

Amen! I lay much of the blame for the degradation of our Nation directly at FDR's feet. His socialistic policies and heavy-handed governmental actions set the course for what we see from government today.

If George Washington had been like FDR, we would be ruled by a king today.

[unseen]

Agreed. FDR (and Wilson to some extent) brought big government into the here and now because they increased the tax revenue and the outlays. FDR was a broken tired sick man at Yalta. He wanted the war over. Because of him we had two wars in South Asia and the country with the largest population went RED (China). FDR was not the GOD that DEMs like to think he was.

[Sonny M]

I lay much of the blame for the degradation of our Nation directly at FDR's feet. His socialistic policies and heavy-handed governmental actions set the course for what we see from government today.

If it will make you feel any better (and it may not), one of my former professors, who was also George W. Bush's former professor (Bush for his MBA at Harvard, me for my MBA at Baruch) said that he remembers Bush speaking "very badly" of FDR and calling him a socialist in class.

[Vigilanteman]

"This has been a very common view of the far right for many years — that Yalta was a betrayal of freedom, that Roosevelt betrayed the hopes of generations."

The author seems more troubled by who is denouncing FDR than the bare facts themselves.