Santa Claus Politics

Townhall.com ^ | January 1, 2008 | Thomas Sowell

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Thank you. I couldn’t recall who it was. Happy New Year.

[VR-21]

You’re quite welcome, and Happy New Year to you.

[dcwusmc]

Telling the truth is never bashing... and there are a LOT of unflattering (and documentable) truths to be told about the unsavory, NON-conservative Bush now occupying the white house.

[pnh102]

First, FDR was a failed president in the sense that in his first two terms he failed to get the country going again and he failed to prevent WWII.

Personally, I don't believe FDR could have prevented World War 2. However, I agree with you 100% that he was a complete failure as a president from 1933 up until our entry into World War 2. Had he not steered the country towards socialism, the Depression would have been much shorter and the recovery much more robust.

... you will have no illusions that anything the US did that helped the USSR to our detriment was an accident.

No kidding. That's why I stated that FDR sold out Eastern Europe after World War 2. I'm fully aware of the fact that FDR ate Patton's medals for daring to suggest that we push the Soviets out of Eastern Europe after the fall of Berlin.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

FDR ate Patton's medals for daring to suggest that we push the Soviets out of Eastern Europe after the fall of Berlin.

Well, of course it would have been absurd to have started a war with the USSR after the fall of Berlin. But the reality is that FDR's first diplomatic act was to recognize the USSR, which the US had not previously done. And FDR only started acting like he wanted to fight Germany after Hitler invaded the USSR. And if the USSR accused an American of being antiSoviet, FDR took it as a serious charge.