Posted on 09/23/2008 3:21:02 PM PDT by Chet 99
WASHINGTON - Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said today's leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to a financial crisis.
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened,'" Barack Obama's running mate recently told the "CBS Evening News."
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AP holding open the “Exit” door for Joe.
No mention of the Sonys, Samsungs, and Zeniths available at that time?
No TV and No Roosevelt...Go Joe...Little dementia settling in?? Naw...You just like to make it up as you go...
My greatgrandfather said it was all over TV then ....
Imagine if Sarah had said anything 10% as ignorant....
LOl! I wonder how many people instantly recognized this. I know I sure did!
New Democrat mantra... “Inaccurate but True!”
That’s nothing. MY grandfather said he had to watch TV by candlelight!
(sorry, stolen from another FReeper on another thread...)
FDR walked on the moon.
How this idiot has gotten elected in Delaware, term after term, tells me that Delaware has to be the dumbest stae.
I wonder which network?
Remember how we used to sit around the radio and listen to Roosevelt’s Fire Side Chats?
Limbaugh was in tears over Biden today.
It was great.
I wish they would make up their minds. Do they want us to remember Herbert Hoover or forget him?
“Stand up, Franklin!”
CNBC, duh
Are you sure FDR didn’t put his speech on YouTube, Joe? What a gold-plated putz!
b> Was it over when the germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
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