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Posted on 09/10/2011 3:55:10 PM PDT by mc5cents
FDR
Upon further review ... I can definitely see your point. And maybe here’s where one just has to put FDR into a category like Nixon, a frustrating mix of good and bad.
Because even with WW II, prior to FDR being practically on his death bed by the time Yalta arrived, a lot of his support of the Soviet Union was mixed up with FDR’s starry-eyed bromance with Stalin.
And ultimately, you have the New Deal. That monstrosity caused a 2nd Depression and torments us to this day with the unsustainable Social Security system and the notion that government can “prime the pump”.
And what truly sets Washington, Lincoln, and Reagan, and George W. Bush, as a cut above FDR is their single-minded, clear-eyed view about how to deal with the great threats of our time.
Even with WW II, FDR was a bit muddled, even though he did keep his eye on the prize about Germany and Japan. But FDR, as noted, was thick headed about the USSR.
But Washington was singled-minded about the War of Independence and that, as president, he should not evolve into “King George the 4th.”
Lincoln was singled-minded about saving the Union — and he freed the slaves along the way.
Reagan was singled-minded about chopping taxes, fixing the economy and leaving the Soviet Union “on the ash heap of history.”
GWB was singled-minded about fighting the Islamo-fascists. And he was successful at that. No terrorist attacks after Sept 11, 2001. None. Not one.
You can’t argue with success like Bush had against the terrorists. Just like you can’t argue with Yorktown, Appomattox, or a Berlin Wall that was torn down by its own prisoners.
Those are all milestones for fine leaders.
-George
“...It’s amazing how long those horrid ideas like the United Nations and globalism have been around...”
They continued to thrive because we continue to let liberal socialists dominate the education system, the media, the government, etc., - every avenue of control and thought. That’s all our kids hear, day in, day out, 24-7.
We’re so damned far away from where we’re supposed to be, as America was founded, that I don’t know if we’ll ever get it back without serious pain and bloodshed.
“...starry-eyed bromance with Stalin...”
Pretty good description...
Bromance with a murderous communist scumbag who killed 25 million Ukrainian peasants because they didn’t want to give up THEIR private property - their farms - to the new socialist utopia. A man who personally ordered the deaths of hundreds of his own officer corps through purges(and thereby directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of his own soldiers early in the war).
Stalin has more blood on his hands than Hitler ever dreamed of having; to my mind, Stalin, Mao, Lenin, etc., make Hitler look like a rank amateur.
I’ve always had the impression that FDR’s “Germany FIrst” policy - which left thousands of American GIs and Phillipino allies to die and be captured by the Japaneses - was simply an attempt to rescue his International Socialist (Russian communist) buddies from the hands of the National Socialists (Nazis).
Some simple research into that time period shows that the American Communist Party and their American liberal apparatchniks were firmly AGAINST America getting involved in “an unjust war” (gee....ain’t that a familiar phrase...) when Hitler and Stalin were buddy-buddies with the Non-Agression Pact - when they carved Poland up and met in the middle as allies. German forces even TRAINED on Russian soil during the mid to late 20s in violation of the Versaille Treaty with the blessings of Stalin.
But when the Germans turned on Russia, well, then, suddenly, overnight from our very own Fifth Column liberals, it was “we MUST rescue a gallant Ally from Fascist aggression!” And FDR was quick to jump on it.
Japan attacked us at Pearl Harbor. Germany didn’t. But he went after Germany first because his socialist buddy was getting his ass kicked.
At least that’s my interpretation, and I’m pretty sure all the scholars and other experts are going to jump all over it and tell me how wrong I am...not that it matters; we know how the book ended.
As for Dubya...He did a helluva job, and I am thankful he was President. I just wish he would have gone after the Saudi connection. Most of the Wahabi crap that launches and funds the Al Queda’s and other lunatic groups come from the Saudis. Did he do a good job vis-a-vis terrorist attacks? Certainly did. But he also put things in place that further eroded our liberty, ESPECIALLY in the hands of this buttclown that we have now. It’s kind of a double-edged sword. On a positive note - he also did let the “AWB” sunset in 2004 (even though he said he would renew it - knowing full well that Tom Delay would NEVER let it get to his desk).
Geo Washington: No argument there. Except when he used the power of the fledgling FedGov to put down the Whiskey Rebellion. Most of those farmers were Revolutionary War veterans who, I can imagine, had a sudden “Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot” moment when they realized they were going to fight the very people they had stood beside a few short years ago over - TAXES!
Abe Lincoln: Some folks south of the Mason-Dixon look at him VERY differently...to them, he invaded and burned their homes and lands. But he did keep the Union together, and had he lived, I don’t think the whole animosity of the Reconstruction would have taken place.
Reagan: He is a giant to me. It was a wonderful time to be alive and be an American when he was here with us. Sorely missed.
Btt
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
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Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
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