haha! I love it! Shame our politicians today can't be like FDR was. The Fala Speech is probably one of my favorites aside from the "Let Me Warn You" speech. Where'd the politicians' balls go?
Don't mistake that I'm Democrat or Republican, I just think that FDR was quite genuinely one of the best presidents we've had in our history.
Jesus Christ. You right wingers are such fucking liars. Bush is an evil scumbag. His administration did everything wrong. He ruined the economy. He let 911 happen and used it to justify his evil agenda. He handled the aftermath of Katrina horribly. Does your racism and hatred extend so far that you STILL defend this evil fuck?
I think we can say, however, that Bush was like FDR and not the other way around in that he continued the failed Keynesian policies that keep magnifying our recessions and artificial surpluses.
Not sure how FDR's reaction was much different. Japan bombs Pearl Harbor so the US invades Africa, Italy, and France, and bombs Germany.
Meanwhile The USSR and UK are lavished with lend lease equipment while US forces in the far Pacific are abandoned to their fate; as per War Plan Orange.
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. US declares war on Japan. Four days later, Germany sides with ally Japan and declares war on US. US & UK hit Germany in N. Africa because it was easier to go there first. Succeeding there, went to Italy. USSR pushes them back. Weakened everywhere else, Allies then able to invade "Fortress Europe" at Normandy. Allies went there because, unlike in Iraq in 2003, that's where the enemy was.
Of course, that's Jim Farley getting the $113, not Rockefeller.
Japan attacks America an F. D. R. responds with a tax cut,typical Democrat rational just change the subject an talk about something else .What a moron!
President Clinton thought Saddam was a serious threat but took no action although he violated UN sanctions multiple times. The Europeans who opposed the war even had business dealings with Saddam.
I am sick and tired of far-left radicals accusing Bush of lying because he didn't lie; he based his decision on faulty intelligence. Even the British said Iraq was looking for uranium in Africa, which was also false.
Iraq is much more peaceful today than it used to be and is now a democracy.
I'm a bit puzzled that believing the military actions of the commander in chief ought to make America more safe is now considered a "far-left radical" notion.
However, I'm happy to meet you halfway, and agree that Bush was didn't lie; he just fired everybody who told him something he didn't want to hear, leaving him free to believe whatever he wanted to.
Do not distort my words and then mold them into your own meaning.
A far-left radical is someone who holds such a warped worldview that no matter what the US does to protect its citizens in the War on Terror, we ( not the terrorists) are the bad guys.
I disagreed with how the Iraq War was prosecuted, but mistakes happen in every war and we have since corrected those mistakes.
Now you may argue that the Iraq War was a mistake and I wouldn't blame you. But now we are leaving a more peaceful Iraq as the Iraqis are taking more responsibility for their own security. Our efforts there will not have been in vain.
If I'm not mistaken, Bush's approval ratings are somewhere between 10-20%. The cross-section of Americans who identify themselves as "conservative" are well over 20%. This would suggest that "conservatives" CAN accept the truth.
I realize that my estimate isn't air-tight, but I think it's fair.
Regardless of political identification, most Americans are reasonable people when they are thinking clearly, and not distracted by divisive partisanship.
"If I'm not mistaken, Bush's approval ratings are somewhere between 10-20%. The cross-section of Americans who identify themselves as "conservative" are well over 20%. This would suggest that "conservatives" CAN accept the truth."
That is a great point. Most people are way too complicated to pigeonhole in this way. It gets tiring to always see people potrayed in such black and white terms.
If FDR had been like Bush, he would have launched a pre-emptive strike against Germany and Japan. This would have saved the lives of some 40 million people who died during the course of the war. Of course, anti-war groups would have protested, calling FDR the greatest war criminal of the age.
So often, the difference between any two political figures is the way the media portrays them.
Pearl Harbor has been heavily declassified for a decade, now. It's a fact that FDR planned and intentionally provoked the attack in order to sway popular opinion in favor of America entering the war.
...just like Bush allowed 9/11 to happen.
FDR used the war to cracked-down on civil liberties, and undermine the Constitution.
The most isolationist Americans in the late 30s, early 40s were mostly conservative Republicans from the midwest like Bob Taft & Sen. Vandenberg. The America First Movement (isolationist) was headed up by Charles Lindbergh & other Roosevelt haters..the same Lindbergh who accepted a medal from Reich Fieldmarshal Goring. It took an attack on Pearl to get this nation ready for war...most conservatives wanted to stay out of Europe's affairs...also, Irish Americans, who hated Britain.
In the WW-II there were many more Americans Killed in a single day than died in the whole war with Iraq or the attack of the insurgents we are now dealing. I have done 2 tours in Iraq and will be going back next month. The last thing we need over there is you treasion ass yellow belly, anti-war protesters using the war as a political smear. When you are man enought to put your coward ass on the line with me. Then you can talk. By the way I support President Bush.
Most of the soldiers that I've talked to do support Bush. From my understanding, they joined the Military to do want they're doing now, which is fight. So instead of protesting against Bush, because he obviously isn't doing anything to bring the soldiers home, why don't you support your fellow Americans that are in Iraq?
ps. I see your problem... you're a yankee rofl, I'm just kidding...
If FDR had been like Bush the Japs would have never made it to Pearl Harbor. FDR fooled around and let the Japs almost beat us, but that's what can be expected out of a Democrat.
Woah You are bad wrong. We took Iraq down in 2 weeks. What we are dealing with now are the insurgents that come afterward. We are still in Germany and Japan over 60 years later to insure simular people don't take over there. We still have thousands of Arericans in those countries.
I'll tell you yankeefogs problem semaj1957... He believes everything that the media is saying. I'm not saying that the media is wrong, but they are very one sided in this war. Instead of reporting the good, they report the evil causing controversy in America...
I'd also like to point-out that FDR allowed Ford & Rockefeller to back the Nazis & supply them with war technology even DURING our involvement in WWII. If FDR wanted quick and effective victory, he would have put a stop to that. ...but FDR and his sponsors had much more to gain by sending the nation to war.
Also, like I said in response to somebody else, Pearl Harbor is declassified. FDR allowed the attack to happen. He wanted it to happen. It's proven.
You're a liar. It was Germany he wanted to fight, and there is no proof that he let Pearl Harbor get attacked. Multiple investigations came up with nothing to prove it.
You are a couple of decades behind the curve. Go down to your local library and read 'Day of Deceit' by Robert Stinnett. Don't worry, it will provide you with a wealth of excuses for why FDR did it. You can learn the truth AND still make excuses for the treason committed by your hero.
P.S. Are you a neo-con or something? Seriously, how dare you call me a liar?
I dare call you a liar because you are, in fact, a liar. Stinnett's whole book centers on the McCollum Memo, and there's no evidence, never mind proof, that FDR ever saw it. Forget "the curve": You're a screwball. The only President who's ever committed treason is the one who sent weapons to Iran, Saddam Hussein, and the guys who became the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Ronald Reagan. Who was not fit to shine FDR's shoes. You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!
Once again, you are a liar. Carter and Mika's dad did nothing of the kind, and none of those guys, except Dubya, committed treason. Reagan's treason was selling weapons to Iran, an impeachable offense before he sent a penny to the fascist Contras.
I don't believe a word you say about FDR. You right-wingers cannot be trusted to run anything bigger than a lemonade stand -- and you'd probably end up poisoning the lemonade!
Oh my gawd, UncleMikeNJ. You are really embarrassing yourself. There's no excuse for you not to know this. Just do a web-search for "How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen".
Hmmm... I suppose selling weapons to Iran could qualify as "Aid and Comfort". But it all boils to whether or not Iran was legally an "enemy" of the United States at the time of the transaction.
Are you aware that both LBJ and H.W. were instrumental in the JFK assassination? Last I checked, that's HIGH treason.
No, I didn't know that, and neither did you, because you're lying again. But Nixon was in Dallas that day. No joke, he was doing legal work for Pepsi. Iran had committed terrorist acts against us, by the Bush-Cheney definition aiding them was treason. Carter and Brzezinski did not aid the future Taliban and al-Qaeda. They did let the Shah into the country, which was bad enough. Still far less than the bastards you support.
haha! I love it! Shame our politicians today can't be like FDR was. The Fala Speech is probably one of my favorites aside from the "Let Me Warn You" speech. Where'd the politicians' balls go?
Don't mistake that I'm Democrat or Republican, I just think that FDR was quite genuinely one of the best presidents we've had in our history.
xDraconianKingx 1 year ago
FDR was a monster
governmentdidit 1 year ago
Haha, awesome
ReadmanJ 1 year ago
what a bunch of crap
bluegsp 1 year ago
Jesus Christ. You right wingers are such fucking liars. Bush is an evil scumbag. His administration did everything wrong. He ruined the economy. He let 911 happen and used it to justify his evil agenda. He handled the aftermath of Katrina horribly. Does your racism and hatred extend so far that you STILL defend this evil fuck?
weircali 2 years ago
I think we can say, however, that Bush was like FDR and not the other way around in that he continued the failed Keynesian policies that keep magnifying our recessions and artificial surpluses.
selfrealizedexile 2 years ago
Not sure how FDR's reaction was much different. Japan bombs Pearl Harbor so the US invades Africa, Italy, and France, and bombs Germany.
Meanwhile The USSR and UK are lavished with lend lease equipment while US forces in the far Pacific are abandoned to their fate; as per War Plan Orange.
KSB26 2 years ago
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. US declares war on Japan. Four days later, Germany sides with ally Japan and declares war on US. US & UK hit Germany in N. Africa because it was easier to go there first. Succeeding there, went to Italy. USSR pushes them back. Weakened everywhere else, Allies then able to invade "Fortress Europe" at Normandy. Allies went there because, unlike in Iraq in 2003, that's where the enemy was.
Of course, that's Jim Farley getting the $113, not Rockefeller.
UncleMikeNJ 2 years ago
Japan attacks America an F. D. R. responds with a tax cut,typical Democrat rational just change the subject an talk about something else .What a moron!
sunglasses20 2 years ago
President Clinton thought Saddam was a serious threat but took no action although he violated UN sanctions multiple times. The Europeans who opposed the war even had business dealings with Saddam.
I am sick and tired of far-left radicals accusing Bush of lying because he didn't lie; he based his decision on faulty intelligence. Even the British said Iraq was looking for uranium in Africa, which was also false.
Iraq is much more peaceful today than it used to be and is now a democracy.
smartamateur 2 years ago
I'm a bit puzzled that believing the military actions of the commander in chief ought to make America more safe is now considered a "far-left radical" notion.
However, I'm happy to meet you halfway, and agree that Bush was didn't lie; he just fired everybody who told him something he didn't want to hear, leaving him free to believe whatever he wanted to.
yankeefog 2 years ago
Do not distort my words and then mold them into your own meaning.
A far-left radical is someone who holds such a warped worldview that no matter what the US does to protect its citizens in the War on Terror, we ( not the terrorists) are the bad guys.
I disagreed with how the Iraq War was prosecuted, but mistakes happen in every war and we have since corrected those mistakes.
smartamateur 2 years ago
Now you may argue that the Iraq War was a mistake and I wouldn't blame you. But now we are leaving a more peaceful Iraq as the Iraqis are taking more responsibility for their own security. Our efforts there will not have been in vain.
smartamateur 2 years ago
If it was faulty intelligence (and it was). Answer me this. Why did President Bush go by it? Knowing that the evidence he was given was not certain.
genxdude1991 2 years ago
Great video, too bad conservatives can't accept the truth.
justindane123 3 years ago 2
justindane123—
If I'm not mistaken, Bush's approval ratings are somewhere between 10-20%. The cross-section of Americans who identify themselves as "conservative" are well over 20%. This would suggest that "conservatives" CAN accept the truth.
I realize that my estimate isn't air-tight, but I think it's fair.
Regardless of political identification, most Americans are reasonable people when they are thinking clearly, and not distracted by divisive partisanship.
gunsandbullhorns 3 years ago
"If I'm not mistaken, Bush's approval ratings are somewhere between 10-20%. The cross-section of Americans who identify themselves as "conservative" are well over 20%. This would suggest that "conservatives" CAN accept the truth."
That is a great point. Most people are way too complicated to pigeonhole in this way. It gets tiring to always see people potrayed in such black and white terms.
carloz1 2 years ago
lies...
tgaddis 3 years ago
If FDR had been like Bush, he would have launched a pre-emptive strike against Germany and Japan. This would have saved the lives of some 40 million people who died during the course of the war. Of course, anti-war groups would have protested, calling FDR the greatest war criminal of the age.
Tiffakev 3 years ago
So often, the difference between any two political figures is the way the media portrays them.
Pearl Harbor has been heavily declassified for a decade, now. It's a fact that FDR planned and intentionally provoked the attack in order to sway popular opinion in favor of America entering the war.
...just like Bush allowed 9/11 to happen.
FDR used the war to cracked-down on civil liberties, and undermine the Constitution.
...just like Bush did with the USAPATRIOT act.
gunsandbullhorns 3 years ago
The most isolationist Americans in the late 30s, early 40s were mostly conservative Republicans from the midwest like Bob Taft & Sen. Vandenberg. The America First Movement (isolationist) was headed up by Charles Lindbergh & other Roosevelt haters..the same Lindbergh who accepted a medal from Reich Fieldmarshal Goring. It took an attack on Pearl to get this nation ready for war...most conservatives wanted to stay out of Europe's affairs...also, Irish Americans, who hated Britain.
ciraldofan 3 years ago
My friend, I'm proud to say that I hated Bush long before it was popular to hate Bush.
yankeefog 3 years ago
Amen!
guany 3 years ago
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA THIS MADE MY DAY!!
VaderTaT 3 years ago
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buzigems 3 years ago
How many American soldiers die in Germany and Japan every month?
How many die in Iraq every month?
Do you maybe see a difference?
yankeefog 4 years ago
In the WW-II there were many more Americans Killed in a single day than died in the whole war with Iraq or the attack of the insurgents we are now dealing. I have done 2 tours in Iraq and will be going back next month. The last thing we need over there is you treasion ass yellow belly, anti-war protesters using the war as a political smear. When you are man enought to put your coward ass on the line with me. Then you can talk. By the way I support President Bush.
noxxxrated 4 years ago
Most of the soldiers that I've talked to do support Bush. From my understanding, they joined the Military to do want they're doing now, which is fight. So instead of protesting against Bush, because he obviously isn't doing anything to bring the soldiers home, why don't you support your fellow Americans that are in Iraq?
ps. I see your problem... you're a yankee rofl, I'm just kidding...
aswk 4 years ago
If FDR had been like Bush the Japs would have never made it to Pearl Harbor. FDR fooled around and let the Japs almost beat us, but that's what can be expected out of a Democrat.
semaj1957 4 years ago
Good point!
If took FDR a whole four years to win World War II, and George W. Bush has already not won the Iraq war in longer time than that! W for the win!
Also, W has made the entire Middle East even less stable, giving him the chance to not win even more wars in the future! Yay, W!
yankeefog 4 years ago
Woah You are bad wrong. We took Iraq down in 2 weeks. What we are dealing with now are the insurgents that come afterward. We are still in Germany and Japan over 60 years later to insure simular people don't take over there. We still have thousands of Arericans in those countries.
semaj1957 4 years ago
I'll tell you yankeefogs problem semaj1957... He believes everything that the media is saying. I'm not saying that the media is wrong, but they are very one sided in this war. Instead of reporting the good, they report the evil causing controversy in America...
aswk 4 years ago
Seriously Semaj, if you think American soldiers are stationed in Germany for fear of insurgency should they leave you are nuts.
LiamE69 3 years ago
semaj1957—
I'd also like to point-out that FDR allowed Ford & Rockefeller to back the Nazis & supply them with war technology even DURING our involvement in WWII. If FDR wanted quick and effective victory, he would have put a stop to that. ...but FDR and his sponsors had much more to gain by sending the nation to war.
Also, like I said in response to somebody else, Pearl Harbor is declassified. FDR allowed the attack to happen. He wanted it to happen. It's proven.
gunsandbullhorns 3 years ago
You're a liar. It was Germany he wanted to fight, and there is no proof that he let Pearl Harbor get attacked. Multiple investigations came up with nothing to prove it.
UncleMikeNJ 2 years ago
UncleMikeNJ—
You are a couple of decades behind the curve. Go down to your local library and read 'Day of Deceit' by Robert Stinnett. Don't worry, it will provide you with a wealth of excuses for why FDR did it. You can learn the truth AND still make excuses for the treason committed by your hero.
P.S. Are you a neo-con or something? Seriously, how dare you call me a liar?
gunsandbullhorns 2 years ago
I dare call you a liar because you are, in fact, a liar. Stinnett's whole book centers on the McCollum Memo, and there's no evidence, never mind proof, that FDR ever saw it. Forget "the curve": You're a screwball. The only President who's ever committed treason is the one who sent weapons to Iran, Saddam Hussein, and the guys who became the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Ronald Reagan. Who was not fit to shine FDR's shoes. You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!
UncleMikeNJ 2 years ago
Oh my gawd, UncleMikeNJ...
Are you telling me it's a coïncidence that FDR implemented all the recommendations contained in that memo? If so, then you're the screwball.
BTW, Carter & Brzeziński created and armed al-Qa'eda. Was that treason?
Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Clinton, H.W. and G.W.Bush all committed treason. I'm unaware of Reagan's treason, but it wouldn't surprise me.
gunsandbullhorns 2 years ago
Once again, you are a liar. Carter and Mika's dad did nothing of the kind, and none of those guys, except Dubya, committed treason. Reagan's treason was selling weapons to Iran, an impeachable offense before he sent a penny to the fascist Contras.
I don't believe a word you say about FDR. You right-wingers cannot be trusted to run anything bigger than a lemonade stand -- and you'd probably end up poisoning the lemonade!
UncleMikeNJ 2 years ago
Oh my gawd, UncleMikeNJ. You are really embarrassing yourself. There's no excuse for you not to know this. Just do a web-search for "How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen".
Hmmm... I suppose selling weapons to Iran could qualify as "Aid and Comfort". But it all boils to whether or not Iran was legally an "enemy" of the United States at the time of the transaction.
Are you aware that both LBJ and H.W. were instrumental in the JFK assassination? Last I checked, that's HIGH treason.
gunsandbullhorns 2 years ago
No, I didn't know that, and neither did you, because you're lying again. But Nixon was in Dallas that day. No joke, he was doing legal work for Pepsi. Iran had committed terrorist acts against us, by the Bush-Cheney definition aiding them was treason. Carter and Brzezinski did not aid the future Taliban and al-Qaeda. They did let the Shah into the country, which was bad enough. Still far less than the bastards you support.
UncleMikeNJ 2 years ago
You're a funny guy, UncleMikeNJ. Perhaps you'd care to name one of the "bastards" that I support.
Go ahead. Tell me who I support.
gunsandbullhorns 2 years ago
Ron Paul? A genuine bastard.
I'm guessing because you have taken shots at both parties, including the one the Mad Doctor actually belongs to.
Or maybe the bastards you support were defeated in 1865. Or 1945.
Clearly, you don't support Americans.
UncleMikeNJ 2 years ago