I'm sure FDR wouldn't mind the comparison to Obama. In his fabled Second Bill of Rights, FDR was going to try and push for national healthcare, like Obama did. Roosevelt's Vice President, Harry Truman, made a push for government run healthcare in 1945, but it was shot down by a hostile congress.
FDR might mind the comparison to Kennedy, though. Joseph Kennedy Sr. (JFK's dad) highly irritated Roosevelt.
Interesting choice of visuals. I wonder if people didn't hope that Obama was going to be another FDR. Unfortunately there was only one FDR, warts and all, he was the best man for the job at that time. My grand aunt though was convinced that FDR was a communist. My grandparents, parents knew the depression. Grandpa told me he once went to his bank in about 1933 and there was a closed sign on the door, next time he went there was no bank. Amazing there wasn't a revolution. If it happened now???
i know people are arguing bout the government but in the comments but i mean the song aint that bad for its time and actually i thought was pretty good it puts a smile on my face
@chrisagehman And China devalues their currency and turns a blind eye to companies not paying their workers for overtime. Workers will often work 80 weeks and only get paid for 40, and the Chinese government does nothing! That's why we're losing jobs. It's not a free market...its our free market vs. their slave labor. And I never claimed to be Libertarian...I'm a centrist.
Apparently this was performed in a New York hotel on 'Black Thursday' 24 October 1929, the day of the Wall Street Crash. The band leader handed out the music and said to his men ''Play it for the corpses", the audience of diners picking at their food with ashen faces.....
The USA will break up into smaller sovereign states in a decade if the Republicans win two consecutive elections starting 2012. The Republic of Texas, the Republic of Utah, the Republic of California (WA, OR, NV, NM, AZ, HI), the Confederate States (slavery legalized again woo hoo!!), the Liberal States of America (NY, New England), apocalyptic state of Montana, and other loser independent states. No civilization lasts forever. Vote Republican Party!! Yeah!!
The song was politicised when it was used at the democratic conference in 1932. Still its a great piece of music and despite all criticisms FDR is a legend!
@coco360 Uncooperative congress has been, dare I say it, uncooperative. Besides, the economy has a habit of being sluggish to respond to government activity, for all we know this might be the result of the war or something Clinton did in the 90's... Remember it took FDR 4 terms, a yes man congress, and a World War to dig us out last time, albeit it was a bigger hole.
@19lionkingfan It's the unofficial anthem of the Democratic Party.
What did you think the comments would be about? Knitting? Did you notice the images used in the video? Did you bother reading the attached information.
@19lionkingfan Because the comment was there. This is YouTube. I don't need elaborate excuses for responding to a comment. You should just be glad I gave you an answer instead of responding with profanity-laced trolling.
@Tokopol ok, your obviously trying to start trouble so im just going to leave. I watched this video to listen to a cool song, not argue with some political dumbass.
@Tokopol how old are you? like in your 20s maybe? idk. Well, I'm 13. And it feels weird saying it to someone im pretty sure is an adult, but GROW UP. Do you pick random comments and just decide to bug them? Why are you being such a jerk? I say something happily, and you pound me down with negativity. I was raised in a positive home, with positive people, and when people like you start talking, i get extremely irritated. Please, leave me be.
@19lionkingfan I guess I keep "picking" on you because you keep responding. It's like you're painting a target on your ass and handing me a BB gun. I can't help it. Besides, what the fuck are you gonna do about it? Turn into the Hulk? Eh, Internet Tough Guy?
@Tokopol i have to admit, you argue well.. I tried to think of a decent reply but i couldn't. And your sudden outburst when you cussed kinda made me laugh. I haven't taught myself to shut up and walk away which is why im still replying. I can imagine all the people reading our argument and thinking "what idiots." Idk why but all of a sudden the whole thing seems hilarious to me. oh and imma girl not a guy btw. i hate when people assume im a guy.
Yeah after Woodrow Wilson starts to walk away from the U.S. CONSTITUTION this Progressive Leftist Starts the Unfunded Social Security Ponzi crap that Obama loves to add Trillions upon Trillions of more debt,using ideology with arrogance and lack of understanding to lead us into default.."Hope & Change";;;;Bull Sh_t!
@Xxexe You sound like one of those peevish, quarelsome and petty Republicans. With that sorry lot you just put up in Iowa Preident Obama is a two term President.
Actually, both parties aren't going after the economic saboteurs: the robber barons of Wall Street and Big Business who get multi-million dollar salaries while leaving investors and workers in the dumps. Declare the Big Boys guilty of Economic Treason. We need a Republic Teddy Roosevelt and a Democratic FDR to hang the real guilty ones. It's Greed, Greed, Greed, and everyone on high backs them up.
I think the only reason why people are mad at our president is because it is taking a long time and people are starting to get scared. but the truth is that it probably wont be fixed over night. SO STOP BITCHING AND START LISTENING TO THIS BADASS MUSIC! =D
@Fogartarian Yes- your're right. But then, the war was just on the horizon. I wonder what's on OUR horizon? "Where have you gone, Franklin Roosevelt, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you...woo woo woo"
OMG Ben Selvin is Mr.Selvin's grandpa!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM in Mr.Selvin's class!!!!!FOR REAL!!!!! Also he played this during Math and so.... like ya....we watch this video and WATCH THE ANNOYING ORANGE! BEST TEACHER EVER!!!! :D
Well, they were a long way from Happy days when this song was written, but some could already see it coming. Let's learn from them...our happy days are coming again, but we must be patient
@Tokopol Hmmm, yeah. Because he totally freed the slaves or actually helped us out of the depression. Hint: It was a major even that happened while he was president that got us out.
Obama is making our economy much worse, you can't spend your way out of debt, our country has been on a moral slide fror years, we are going to reap what we have sown , we as a nation do not follow the 10 comandments, and we teach our children that there is no God, the Creator. So the next generation believes that anything goes, and no one will have to answer for what they do. For this we are under a curse. Read Deut. chapter 28, blessing and cursings , please read and repent.
@tellingthetruthagain The very idea of Keynesian Economics is that you spend, spend, spend during a recession to get the cash flow going again. John Maynard Keynes is considered by many the father of modern Capitalism.
@GeorgeVreelandHill Read N37BU6: The Dems had Congress when the Crash came in 2007. Did they fix anything? Did they reward all the big rollers on Wall Street and Detroit? YES. Rhetoric is free. Actions cost. The Dems did nothing the last four years. The Republican Congress of 1995 balanced the budget against the complaints of the Dems that it couldn't and shouldn't be done, and Clinton signed the bill. Howard Dean said it was "under Clinton"! Yes, but Republicans enacted it.
@michaelscot23 If you think FDR is a communist... then maybe communism is whats best for this country. After all, look where capitalism has gotten us.
@Ocelllian2 We don't have capitalism. What we have, and have had for far too long is corporatism, bureaucracy, and cronyism. These things have unfortunately gotten associated with, and soiled the name of capitalism. Subsidies, government sanctioned monopolies, printing presses with the "OFF" switch ripped out, and grotesquely over sized government have "gotten us" where we are now. Marxism empowers government, believing it is infallible, Capitalism empowers people, realizing it is not.
@Ocelllian2 You said that capitalism was responsible for the economic detriment for the past couple decades. When in fact government involvement/central planning can be directly attributed to the Great Depression, the current recession, high cost of living and high unemployment.
@quarterxchange Greed in the private sector is what is responsible. There is no such thing as "government" - just powerful people who rely on campaign donations to get elected. As such, they want to make as many wealthy friends as possible, and, with most of the wealth concentrated among the top 1%, that is who they work for.
@Ocelllian2 No it isn't. Government involvement is the cause. It's why we had the Great Depression, the current recession, it's why teenagers and people with low skills can't get entry level jobs, it's why the cost of living is rising, it's why people die needlessly in disasters, it's why healthcare and seeing a doctor is so expensive, etc. You can thank all that to the Federal Reserve, Minimum Wage Laws, Corporate Taxes and Tarrifs, Price Gouging laws, etc.
@Ocelllian2 Non-consensual slavery is not condoned by capitalism, how about we don't tax the poor and while we're at it, not tax the rich. Healthcare companies can't charge whatever they want, they have to compete, and offer lower costs to get customers. Lately they've all been charging more because the government requires them to.
It doesn't matter, different factions of government affect different sections of the economy/private sector. Regardless, 99.99% of government interference is bad.
@quarterxchange Capitalism essentially is a system of wage slavery. Not that communism is much better and all the libertard nonsense you're going to spout that (the Koch brothers who support Ron Paul would be proud of you) is not going to change that.
@AmersfoortTristan No it isn't. In a free market companies compete for labor, meaning everyone's labor has a market value, similiar to how companies compete for products. If a company insists on paying a low amount for person with a certain skill that is needed, they will have mediocre workers or employees. Sure business owners want to drive wages down, but the market, or competition if you will, prevents that.
@quarterxchange oh you mean in a true free market capitalism there would be even less government regulation and the rich would screw the poor even harder? Yes, you're completely right.
If you make the market any more free, it will buy the government even harder, and the resulting system will ravage the country even harder.
@bongobanjo You're a moron. Every ailment afflicting the poor whether it be poverty, unemployment, etc can be directly attributed to government intervention. Government regulation doesn't help anyone except politicians, much less the poor. All regulation does is make it harder to hire employees, harder to lower prices, and harder to offer more goods and services..
@quarterxchange Your "argument" is precisely the bullshit that public relations conmen come up with to keep the idiots "happy". It doesn't make the slightest sense, unless you're an anarchist(idiot).
Quite obviously, you're the moron, the sheep, the problem.
@bongobanjo What argument? You haven't said anything. Nearly every single government regulation in place in the economy does more good than harm. It was the cause for the monopolies, the stock market crash, the great depression, the housing bubble pop, etc. Low skilled workers are unemployed because of minimum wage laws, prices are high because of government protectionism, every american on average owes 40K because of government spending. What more do you want?
@bongobanjo If the government didn't have a 40% tarrif in place on foreign goods there would have been no huge monopolies taking advantage of the American people, because they would have competed with foreign companies. If the government didn't artificially lower interest rates and hand out mortage loans willy nilly we wouldn't be in the recession we're in today. If government spending was kept to a minimum we would have a defecit. You're delusional, and an authoritarian one at that.
@GeorgeVreelandHill How did we get to talking about politics, especially that dumbass of a president we have now, on a 1930's era song? All of you, republicans and democrats, need to shut up and enjoy the music.
It's a shame that FDR wished to hide his disability. He could have been the "poster boy" for the disabled, since it definitely didn't disable his mind. It would have been a classic story of "you can do anything if you set your mind to it!"
As I am from England and therefore more intelligent and aware than the vast majority of Americans let me say that FDR is the greatest president that you have had.
@goatface1000: You are absolutely correct, from this Yank. But the real story of this vid is Ben Selvin - a genius who's life's work (He lived until 1980!!) should be better known today. If you love the music of this era (and quite a few eras after it)
search out "Ben Selvin" - popular music would have never been the same without him.
@goatface1000 - Not all Americans are dumb. You are right, though. FDR was the greatest president in American history, and no president since him can ever match his greatness, thanks to the 22nd Amendment, which limited presidents since Eisenhower to two terms (Truman was exempted from the amendment).
@AshburnStadium I was not serious in suggesting that the English are more intelligent than Americans hwever I do feel some Americans attitude the to USA is over the top. FDR was a great man we in the UK and the world in general owe him a huge debt. I have had some disputes with Americans on youtube so it is delightful to come accross a Americans who I am in agrement with.
@FRAGIORGIO1 Well I don't agree with you on that but I won't argue as I am always delighted to find an American these days who is not to the right of Attila the Hun. We in England & Europe owe FDR a huge debt also he turned America around from the depression. Glad to hear from you
Thank you for sharing this!! I was looking for a song that would have been popular when my grandfather would have been avidly listening to music. This is a song circa 1930, a couple of years before my father was born.
It's pathetic that this video feebly attempts to draw parallels between fdr and Obama. You kid yourselves if think that BHO is some kind of messiah or will save America from anything. He's doing a great job of destroying it and our slide toward the biggest financial collapse in history is being hastened by him and his lemmings in the Dem party.
It's ironic that this song was first recorded in November 1929, only days after the Wall Street Crash. Needless to say, the aftermath of that didn't involve too many happy days for anyone.
fdr was the fucking man hands down what one of the things the current adminisration needs to do is bring back the ccc it gave millons of people jobs and something to do instead of wasting away at home doing nothing remember folks idle minds are the devils work shop idle hands are too
@goback3spaces damn right republicans only care about thier special interests and making a buck by stepping over anyone including there own mother. we democrats care more about the people and making the world a better place for all just not the chosen few
@anathemaish That's simplified, idealistic, and untrue. Don't have time to list all the ways Republicans have tried to make the world a better place, but I'll just cite one. Check out G.W. Bush's record on aid to Africa, which is unprecedented in the history of the U.S. God bless you!
@anathemaish That's absurd if you think the Dems are shining knights on a white steed. Both parties are not doing their job well enough. The Dems are all about abortion and homosexual "marriage", even voting for it after the people vote for normal historical marriage, as in California, or they vote against letting the people of Massachussetts decide by a referendum, The Repubs have gone nuts over "illegal immigration" without trying to legalize the workers needed by agriculture and housing.
The Fedral debt of 1933 - 1945 was 122% of GDP. What is the Federal debt which the Obama administration inherited from W? It is significantly less than what FDR and Truman had to tackle. Yet, the US was still able to finance the Marshall Plan and the domestic infrastructure of the 1950s and 1960s. Democrats are not spend thrifts, the Republicans are the spend thrifts.
@oidad Hey FDR gave every amreican the freedom to know that when they retired or if they lost there job they could have a roof over there head and food on his plate
He was the BEST man for his time. He's still one of my heros, but that was a different time. We had another mfg.& economy scenario. Nothing is backing us up now, but debt & obama's printing press! We are headed for a hard fall in the next 5 or 6 years!
@malthust oh I'm not exagerating one bit about his political ambitions and his resentment of capitalism and democracy. take your head out of the sand and really examine he who you clearly worship.
@bigfilmhat typical of a left-wing rank and file. have no arguments on substance so must resort to character assasination. Why would I be surprised with the thumbs down? look at the tags of the video, kennedy, roosevelt, obama, new deal, of course this draws left-wingers.
You had no arguements of any sustance your entire comment was character assassination.
I didn't make any arguement, you made an arguement that Obama is a dictator. Since your comment was bizarre and baseless, it's up to you to back up your claim, not me to back mine-because I didn't make one.
@bigfilmhat He is. my comment was not some rambling of a right-wing kook. Open your eyes, get off the dailykos and organizing for america and take a real long and objective look at obama and his past, he is a socialist and if he could be a dictator, he would. he shares similar qualities to many former dictators.
@bigfilmhat My comment was character assasination?!? your attempt about anti-psychosis medication and piddle wit rather than adressing your clear opposition to my point of view was the true ducking of an argument based on facts and substance!
You didn't make any arguement baised on facts or substance. There was nothing for me to duck, all you did was toss irrational talking points and slogans at Obama. Your comment was 100% the ramblings of a kook.
Unfortunately we are a ways off from "Happy Days" . . . at least in terms of the economy . . . not unlike when this song first came out. Barrack was handed a terrible mess, but he is infinitely better suited for the job than the ass-clown who sat at his desk before him. I still believe a depression is an inevitability . . . we'll see if Barrack can actually stave it off . . . but I think it would take a bona-fide miracle.
Well, if life was a Hollywood movie and Obama was a stock character Spike Lee describes as a "magical negro", then I'm sure he'd do a great job fixing America. Pouring billions into failing industries, banks and nationalizing healtcare proves that Mister President doesnot dall into this offensive stereotype, however.
Yeah, but Barrack also has added more debt...If you ask me, both of them are incompetent fools...We need a president like FDR... You know, One who instead of spending attention on healcare, would put programs inplace to make more jobs...like what FDR did, (A good example would be fixing roads, ext))
Now dont go thinking I'm praiseing W, he was a fool, but he was also handed a economy in decline...not as drastic as our Nigro Amigo, but still. Also, dont forget that we were invloved in several conflicts... They -will- make it worse. Like I said before, we need a democratic president who Knows how to fight a war.
To NYerintransit: I have never seen such an idiyoic assessment of the end of the Depression as yours. What stupid dolt would claim such a thing? THE PLANNED WAR ENDED THE DEPRESSION! Well, I'm sorry to be so hard on you, I never like to pick on kindergarteners. By the ay, what do you smoke in your spare time studying Dick and Jane?
Ha ha, Obama happy days are here again, brilliant
rogertom1000 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
mfw when FDR was more close to socialism than Obama is.
GamersFA 2 weeks ago
Number 1 the day my Mom was born. Love my ma.
JTPProd8 3 weeks ago
2008:
Obama to voters: Yes We Can!
2012:
Voters to Obama: Never Again!
navegamadrid 1 month ago
I just want the government out of every aspect of my life. I don't care what you or anyone else does.
HammerOvThor 1 month ago
Keynesian economics are here again! Huh-rah!
HammerOvThor 1 month ago
@HammerOvThor If only....
AmersfoortTristan 1 month ago
I Love this song! One of my absolute favorites from any era!
avdreader1 2 months ago
I'm sure FDR wouldn't mind the comparison to Obama. In his fabled Second Bill of Rights, FDR was going to try and push for national healthcare, like Obama did. Roosevelt's Vice President, Harry Truman, made a push for government run healthcare in 1945, but it was shot down by a hostile congress.
FDR might mind the comparison to Kennedy, though. Joseph Kennedy Sr. (JFK's dad) highly irritated Roosevelt.
HGM1138 2 months ago
Interesting choice of visuals. I wonder if people didn't hope that Obama was going to be another FDR. Unfortunately there was only one FDR, warts and all, he was the best man for the job at that time. My grand aunt though was convinced that FDR was a communist. My grandparents, parents knew the depression. Grandpa told me he once went to his bank in about 1933 and there was a closed sign on the door, next time he went there was no bank. Amazing there wasn't a revolution. If it happened now???
sauroid1 2 months ago
I haved always LOVED this song! Wonderful.
avdreader1 2 months ago
Haha. This video is an epic fail.
sdh1855 3 months ago
great tune/song
capnvancouver 3 months ago
i know people are arguing bout the government but in the comments but i mean the song aint that bad for its time and actually i thought was pretty good it puts a smile on my face
captainofthetitanic 3 months ago
this is what happened and 'is' happening...not left, not right...
utube it:
David Icke - Essential Knowledge For A Wall Street Protestor
goldhedge 3 months ago
I can just imagine FDR: "FUCK THE RULES, I'M RUNNING AGAIN."
3rkid2 3 months ago
It's this kind of humor in the face of adversity that keeps America strong.
dbuel 3 months ago
It's an insult that you put FDR and Obama together.
sexyloser1128 4 months ago
@sexyloser1128 They were both abject morons, so it is rather fitting.
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@chrisagehman And China devalues their currency and turns a blind eye to companies not paying their workers for overtime. Workers will often work 80 weeks and only get paid for 40, and the Chinese government does nothing! That's why we're losing jobs. It's not a free market...its our free market vs. their slave labor. And I never claimed to be Libertarian...I'm a centrist.
thewag777 4 months ago
Why isnt this a fallout song?
BallisticWic 4 months ago
Apparently this was performed in a New York hotel on 'Black Thursday' 24 October 1929, the day of the Wall Street Crash. The band leader handed out the music and said to his men ''Play it for the corpses", the audience of diners picking at their food with ashen faces.....
splinterbyrd 4 months ago
To compare Obama to FDR is an insult to a great and legendary president.
DickCabezaLtd 4 months ago 38
@DickCabezaLtd Agreed!!!
fastmail55 2 months ago
The USA will break up into smaller sovereign states in a decade if the Republicans win two consecutive elections starting 2012. The Republic of Texas, the Republic of Utah, the Republic of California (WA, OR, NV, NM, AZ, HI), the Confederate States (slavery legalized again woo hoo!!), the Liberal States of America (NY, New England), apocalyptic state of Montana, and other loser independent states. No civilization lasts forever. Vote Republican Party!! Yeah!!
optimusimperat 4 months ago
The song was politicised when it was used at the democratic conference in 1932. Still its a great piece of music and despite all criticisms FDR is a legend!
gussyred 4 months ago
Three years later - and what a disappointment.
To have once thought of Obama as a successor to the great American liberals like Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson... what a monumental disappointment.
coco360 4 months ago
@coco360 Uncooperative congress has been, dare I say it, uncooperative. Besides, the economy has a habit of being sluggish to respond to government activity, for all we know this might be the result of the war or something Clinton did in the 90's... Remember it took FDR 4 terms, a yes man congress, and a World War to dig us out last time, albeit it was a bigger hole.
ETMadOne 4 months ago
I wish we would have had the COURAGE to face times such as we have now.
Micelli1947 5 months ago
Well I did want to post this on FB . . . too bad it has all of the political overtones
kbschreiber1 5 months ago
@kbschreiber1 What overtones? I'd say Bill Clinton was a great President.
Meade556 4 months ago
And with FDR's policies, all it took was World War II
SCE2AUX 5 months ago
i heard this on my wife and kids lol. whats up with all these political comments?
19lionkingfan 6 months ago
@19lionkingfan It's the unofficial anthem of the Democratic Party.
What did you think the comments would be about? Knitting? Did you notice the images used in the video? Did you bother reading the attached information.
Tokopol 4 months ago
@Tokopol i made this comment a month ago. Why did you bother to reply? A reply like that only gets people irritated.
19lionkingfan 4 months ago
@19lionkingfan Because the comment was there. This is YouTube. I don't need elaborate excuses for responding to a comment. You should just be glad I gave you an answer instead of responding with profanity-laced trolling.
Tokopol 4 months ago
@Tokopol ok, your obviously trying to start trouble so im just going to leave. I watched this video to listen to a cool song, not argue with some political dumbass.
19lionkingfan 4 months ago
@19lionkingfan "im just going to leave."
Oh, no! Please don't! Look at all the people whose hearts will be shattered!
*tumbleweed blows by*
Tokopol 4 months ago
@Tokopol how old are you? like in your 20s maybe? idk. Well, I'm 13. And it feels weird saying it to someone im pretty sure is an adult, but GROW UP. Do you pick random comments and just decide to bug them? Why are you being such a jerk? I say something happily, and you pound me down with negativity. I was raised in a positive home, with positive people, and when people like you start talking, i get extremely irritated. Please, leave me be.
19lionkingfan 4 months ago
@19lionkingfan I guess I keep "picking" on you because you keep responding. It's like you're painting a target on your ass and handing me a BB gun. I can't help it. Besides, what the fuck are you gonna do about it? Turn into the Hulk? Eh, Internet Tough Guy?
Tokopol 4 months ago
@Tokopol i have to admit, you argue well.. I tried to think of a decent reply but i couldn't. And your sudden outburst when you cussed kinda made me laugh. I haven't taught myself to shut up and walk away which is why im still replying. I can imagine all the people reading our argument and thinking "what idiots." Idk why but all of a sudden the whole thing seems hilarious to me. oh and imma girl not a guy btw. i hate when people assume im a guy.
19lionkingfan 4 months ago
The only thing FDR an Obama have in common is that they both smoked. To put his visage over this beautiful old recording is profanation.
louisa1832 6 months ago
Yeah after Woodrow Wilson starts to walk away from the U.S. CONSTITUTION this Progressive Leftist Starts the Unfunded Social Security Ponzi crap that Obama loves to add Trillions upon Trillions of more debt,using ideology with arrogance and lack of understanding to lead us into default.."Hope & Change";;;;Bull Sh_t!
Xxexe 7 months ago
@Xxexe You sound like one of those peevish, quarelsome and petty Republicans. With that sorry lot you just put up in Iowa Preident Obama is a two term President.
Pilgrim812 5 months ago
im going to change someone's political opinion with a comment on a youtube video
DrDemento29 7 months ago 30
Crime inc. starts here The SS "PONZI"
Xxexe 7 months ago
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Bin Laden is gone... HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!!!!!
KFCVideos1 9 months ago
Actually, both parties aren't going after the economic saboteurs: the robber barons of Wall Street and Big Business who get multi-million dollar salaries while leaving investors and workers in the dumps. Declare the Big Boys guilty of Economic Treason. We need a Republic Teddy Roosevelt and a Democratic FDR to hang the real guilty ones. It's Greed, Greed, Greed, and everyone on high backs them up.
FRAGIORGIO1 9 months ago
this song sucks
kyleite2 9 months ago
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@N37BU6
Are you an idiot?
When we left with Clinton we had a surplus. As soon as BUSH took over guess what, he took less than a year to take a dump on our economy.
/tinyurl D0Tc0m/BUSHISATARD
TKMVillar 10 months ago
The singers do not sound very happy...
historygenius 1 year ago
HEY IT WAS FDR'S THEMESONG. NOT OBAMA'S. C'MON MAN! GEEEEEEEEZE...
IT IS OKAY TO PUT JFK THOUGH BECAUSE HE WAS A GOOD PRESIDENT.
crayzzriggs 1 year ago
God Bless President Franklin Roosevelt, and God Bless President Barack Obama!
ScottyUrb 1 year ago
RUNESCAPE IS BRINGING BACK FREE TRADE!!!
Happy days are here again! ^.^
Keitaro2011 1 year ago 2
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Fighting on a you tube video is like winning the special Olympics even if you win your still a retard.
ChefTerminator 1 year ago
Fighting on a you tube video is like winning the special Olympics even if you win your still a retard.
ChefTerminator 1 year ago
@ChefTerminator How old are you? Making fun of mentally disabled people on youtube is more pathetic than fighting on youtube.
2012cheerio 1 year ago 5
Great Snappy arrangement!! -- Love it.
bigcity233 1 year ago
Especially for Hilary and Lloyd.
Naomi
NaomiWadsworth 1 year ago
Yay AHS theater
justinlovespastry 1 year ago
"Where have you gone, Franklin Roosevelt, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo woo woo..."
with apologies to S&G
Thanks for posting this.
-Bill
baghend 1 year ago
Glee turned this song into a abomination
vivlevivle 1 year ago
I think the only reason why people are mad at our president is because it is taking a long time and people are starting to get scared. but the truth is that it probably wont be fixed over night. SO STOP BITCHING AND START LISTENING TO THIS BADASS MUSIC! =D
w2a2l2k2e2r2 1 year ago 3
Palinista? A new term worth consideration???
patoman881 1 year ago
I must protest the inexplicable omission of Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson from the visual.
shaneu1 1 year ago
I've read about the days when Democrats were Democrats. I wish I'd lived then.
Fogartarian 1 year ago
@Fogartarian It was a long, LONG time ago.
Tokopol 1 year ago
@Fogartarian I miss the days when republicans were fiscal conservatives. Would be nice to have them back!
coffeescup 1 year ago
@coffeescup I miss the days when the Republicans cared about anybody but the very very rich. Hell, I miss the day when there was hope.
Fogartarian 1 year ago 3
@Fogartarian Yes- your're right. But then, the war was just on the horizon. I wonder what's on OUR horizon? "Where have you gone, Franklin Roosevelt, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you...woo woo woo"
baghend 1 year ago
Happy days are here again,
The the House turned red in 2010!
This truly is Pelosi's end,
Happy days are here again!
StarWarzFreak92 1 year ago
@StarWarzFreak92 lol, yes! Maybe we can actually not only halt but reverse this socialist march.
Anyone who hasn't seen it should take a look at Glenn Beck's clip for today. Pretty funny and much more fitting imo. :p
FrontlinerDelta 1 year ago
@FrontlinerDelta I'm an insider and I listen to his show every day. I listened to that part 4 or 5 times today, I can't get enough.
StarWarzFreak92 1 year ago
Happy Days are here again! The GOP has won the house!
1viewer6 1 year ago
He was the begining of the end.
Obama finishes us of
All downhill untill Pearlharbor
Than more jobs.
Not good jobs, but jobs
The raw deal did not work, and Baryrama does not work eignt
Tremain2004 1 year ago
Awesome awesome awesome!!!! Good to hear an original!
72DBRONCO 1 year ago
OMG Ben Selvin is Mr.Selvin's grandpa!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM in Mr.Selvin's class!!!!!FOR REAL!!!!! Also he played this during Math and so.... like ya....we watch this video and WATCH THE ANNOYING ORANGE! BEST TEACHER EVER!!!! :D
Swim2him 1 year ago
The first place i heard this was on Bioshock.
Konform2zoidberg 1 year ago
wochenende und sonneschein!
sharkboyinc 1 year ago
I know of no song where the words fit the music as well as this one. The music SOUNDS as though the return of happy days is being celebrated.
wmlfan9 1 year ago
Well, they were a long way from Happy days when this song was written, but some could already see it coming. Let's learn from them...our happy days are coming again, but we must be patient
thewag777 1 year ago
Best president in history.
The whole fucking facade of Rushmore should be his face.
Tokopol 1 year ago
@Tokopol
You are so right my friend.
coolmamac 1 year ago
@Tokopol Hmmm, yeah. Because he totally freed the slaves or actually helped us out of the depression. Hint: It was a major even that happened while he was president that got us out.
FrontlinerDelta 1 year ago
Hoovervilles of the then, Bushburgs of the now!
louiscaponecchia 1 year ago
I wish Obama could channel FDR.
hb2019 1 year ago 6
whadaeffinuk with the pictures?
JBrrou 1 year ago
Obama is making our economy much worse, you can't spend your way out of debt, our country has been on a moral slide fror years, we are going to reap what we have sown , we as a nation do not follow the 10 comandments, and we teach our children that there is no God, the Creator. So the next generation believes that anything goes, and no one will have to answer for what they do. For this we are under a curse. Read Deut. chapter 28, blessing and cursings , please read and repent.
tellingthetruthagain 1 year ago
@tellingthetruthagain The very idea of Keynesian Economics is that you spend, spend, spend during a recession to get the cash flow going again. John Maynard Keynes is considered by many the father of modern Capitalism.
NHSActor 1 year ago
@NHSActor The current American system you call "modern" capitalism is what's responsible for this mess. The father of true capitalism was Adam Smith.
Keynesian economics are full of shit. Why the hell would you spend more when you're in financial trouble? Does that sound like good advice to you?
Scenwulf 1 year ago
I was reading an article last night about prohibition and this song became the theme for a while once the law was repealed.
Tinyoak2 1 year ago
We need more like him. Not RepubliCons.
ihaterepublicanstoo 1 year ago
We need FDR today.
I'm giving Obama a chance, but I blame the economic mess on Bush and the Republicans.
As for FDR, well, he fixed a lot bigger mess than the one today.
Too bad he can't come back.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 1 year ago 32
@GeorgeVreelandHill Read N37BU6: The Dems had Congress when the Crash came in 2007. Did they fix anything? Did they reward all the big rollers on Wall Street and Detroit? YES. Rhetoric is free. Actions cost. The Dems did nothing the last four years. The Republican Congress of 1995 balanced the budget against the complaints of the Dems that it couldn't and shouldn't be done, and Clinton signed the bill. Howard Dean said it was "under Clinton"! Yes, but Republicans enacted it.
FRAGIORGIO1 9 months ago
@GeorgeVreelandHill Communist.
michaelscot23 7 months ago
@michaelscot23 If you think FDR is a communist... then maybe communism is whats best for this country. After all, look where capitalism has gotten us.
Just Sayin'
Ocelllian2 7 months ago in playlist 1930s, 40s, and 50s music
@Ocelllian2 We don't have capitalism. What we have, and have had for far too long is corporatism, bureaucracy, and cronyism. These things have unfortunately gotten associated with, and soiled the name of capitalism. Subsidies, government sanctioned monopolies, printing presses with the "OFF" switch ripped out, and grotesquely over sized government have "gotten us" where we are now. Marxism empowers government, believing it is infallible, Capitalism empowers people, realizing it is not.
TK572 6 months ago
@Ocelllian2 Almost every economic ailment experianced by people all over the globe can be directly linked to central planning/communist polices.
quarterxchange 2 months ago
@quarterxchange Sorry, what does that have to do with anything?
Ocelllian2 2 months ago
@Ocelllian2 You said that capitalism was responsible for the economic detriment for the past couple decades. When in fact government involvement/central planning can be directly attributed to the Great Depression, the current recession, high cost of living and high unemployment.
quarterxchange 2 months ago
@quarterxchange Greed in the private sector is what is responsible. There is no such thing as "government" - just powerful people who rely on campaign donations to get elected. As such, they want to make as many wealthy friends as possible, and, with most of the wealth concentrated among the top 1%, that is who they work for.
Ocelllian2 2 months ago
@Ocelllian2 No it isn't. Government involvement is the cause. It's why we had the Great Depression, the current recession, it's why teenagers and people with low skills can't get entry level jobs, it's why the cost of living is rising, it's why people die needlessly in disasters, it's why healthcare and seeing a doctor is so expensive, etc. You can thank all that to the Federal Reserve, Minimum Wage Laws, Corporate Taxes and Tarrifs, Price Gouging laws, etc.
quarterxchange 2 months ago
@quarterxchange Yea, because we should go back to slave labor, tax the poor, and let health-care companies charge whatever they want. Great idea.
I ask you this - who exactly is the "government?" Funny that you conservatives never say - is it the White House? The Congress? The system as a whole?
Ocelllian2 2 months ago
@Ocelllian2 Non-consensual slavery is not condoned by capitalism, how about we don't tax the poor and while we're at it, not tax the rich. Healthcare companies can't charge whatever they want, they have to compete, and offer lower costs to get customers. Lately they've all been charging more because the government requires them to.
It doesn't matter, different factions of government affect different sections of the economy/private sector. Regardless, 99.99% of government interference is bad.
quarterxchange 2 months ago
@quarterxchange Capitalism essentially is a system of wage slavery. Not that communism is much better and all the libertard nonsense you're going to spout that (the Koch brothers who support Ron Paul would be proud of you) is not going to change that.
AmersfoortTristan 1 month ago
@AmersfoortTristan No it isn't. In a free market companies compete for labor, meaning everyone's labor has a market value, similiar to how companies compete for products. If a company insists on paying a low amount for person with a certain skill that is needed, they will have mediocre workers or employees. Sure business owners want to drive wages down, but the market, or competition if you will, prevents that.
quarterxchange 1 month ago
@quarterxchange Too bad average income for the middle class declined by 6% over the past decade. So much for the free market.
jerzy862 1 month ago
@jerzy862 If you think the past decade is an example of Free Market Capitalism at work then you truly don't know what Freee Market Capitalism is.
quarterxchange 1 month ago 5
@quarterxchange oh you mean in a true free market capitalism there would be even less government regulation and the rich would screw the poor even harder? Yes, you're completely right.
If you make the market any more free, it will buy the government even harder, and the resulting system will ravage the country even harder.
bongobanjo 1 week ago
@bongobanjo You're a moron. Every ailment afflicting the poor whether it be poverty, unemployment, etc can be directly attributed to government intervention. Government regulation doesn't help anyone except politicians, much less the poor. All regulation does is make it harder to hire employees, harder to lower prices, and harder to offer more goods and services..
quarterxchange 2 days ago
@quarterxchange Your "argument" is precisely the bullshit that public relations conmen come up with to keep the idiots "happy". It doesn't make the slightest sense, unless you're an anarchist(idiot).
Quite obviously, you're the moron, the sheep, the problem.
bongobanjo 1 day ago
@bongobanjo What argument? You haven't said anything. Nearly every single government regulation in place in the economy does more good than harm. It was the cause for the monopolies, the stock market crash, the great depression, the housing bubble pop, etc. Low skilled workers are unemployed because of minimum wage laws, prices are high because of government protectionism, every american on average owes 40K because of government spending. What more do you want?
quarterxchange 1 day ago
@bongobanjo If the government didn't have a 40% tarrif in place on foreign goods there would have been no huge monopolies taking advantage of the American people, because they would have competed with foreign companies. If the government didn't artificially lower interest rates and hand out mortage loans willy nilly we wouldn't be in the recession we're in today. If government spending was kept to a minimum we would have a defecit. You're delusional, and an authoritarian one at that.
quarterxchange 1 day ago
@GeorgeVreelandHill How did we get to talking about politics, especially that dumbass of a president we have now, on a 1930's era song? All of you, republicans and democrats, need to shut up and enjoy the music.
Bo14Rod 5 months ago
It's a shame that FDR wished to hide his disability. He could have been the "poster boy" for the disabled, since it definitely didn't disable his mind. It would have been a classic story of "you can do anything if you set your mind to it!"
AshburnStadium 1 year ago
As I am from England and therefore more intelligent and aware than the vast majority of Americans let me say that FDR is the greatest president that you have had.
goatface1000 1 year ago
@goatface1000: You are absolutely correct, from this Yank. But the real story of this vid is Ben Selvin - a genius who's life's work (He lived until 1980!!) should be better known today. If you love the music of this era (and quite a few eras after it)
search out "Ben Selvin" - popular music would have never been the same without him.
MelosAntropon 1 year ago
@MelosAntropon Will do, to quote Groucho Marx. Stay warm.
goatface1000 1 year ago
@goatface1000 - Not all Americans are dumb. You are right, though. FDR was the greatest president in American history, and no president since him can ever match his greatness, thanks to the 22nd Amendment, which limited presidents since Eisenhower to two terms (Truman was exempted from the amendment).
AshburnStadium 1 year ago
@AshburnStadium I was not serious in suggesting that the English are more intelligent than Americans hwever I do feel some Americans attitude the to USA is over the top. FDR was a great man we in the UK and the world in general owe him a huge debt. I have had some disputes with Americans on youtube so it is delightful to come accross a Americans who I am in agrement with.
goatface1000 1 year ago
@goatface1000 FDR was the 2nd greatest, after George Washington who set the example for all.
FRAGIORGIO1 9 months ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 Well I don't agree with you on that but I won't argue as I am always delighted to find an American these days who is not to the right of Attila the Hun. We in England & Europe owe FDR a huge debt also he turned America around from the depression. Glad to hear from you
goatface1000 9 months ago
@goatface1000 You did NOT have to say that you are more intelligent and more aware then most Americans, but yeah FDR was the best President we had.
vault2281 3 months ago
@vault2281 Sorry if I caused any offence, it was an ironic commnt based on the antics of the Tea Party lunatics.
goatface1000 3 months ago
@goatface1000 It's okay, Americans get that all the time.
vault2281 3 months ago
@vault2281 Glad no offence caused. Those idiots sully the name of a great country. Stay warm
goatface1000 3 months ago
@goatface1000 You too
vault2281 3 months ago
Thank you for sharing this!! I was looking for a song that would have been popular when my grandfather would have been avidly listening to music. This is a song circa 1930, a couple of years before my father was born.
christopherm2k 1 year ago
It's pathetic that this video feebly attempts to draw parallels between fdr and Obama. You kid yourselves if think that BHO is some kind of messiah or will save America from anything. He's doing a great job of destroying it and our slide toward the biggest financial collapse in history is being hastened by him and his lemmings in the Dem party.
michaelneedsgrace 1 year ago
@michaelneedsgrace
Obama is overrated. But he is leagues better than McCain and Palin.
And George W. Bush.
Silverwire100 1 year ago
It's ironic that this song was first recorded in November 1929, only days after the Wall Street Crash. Needless to say, the aftermath of that didn't involve too many happy days for anyone.
GusF 1 year ago
Love this version of the song
fallingwater7 1 year ago
Franklin Roosevelt was the only President I knew for my first few years. I think he was the "Greatest Ever"
MrTigerRuss 1 year ago
@MrTigerRuss
Here Here!
av3ed 1 year ago
@MrTigerRuss
I am beginning to really respect FDR. I am glad some folks agree.
coolmamac 1 year ago
@coolmamac
He was one of the better presidents.
Silverwire100 1 year ago
fdr was the fucking man hands down what one of the things the current adminisration needs to do is bring back the ccc it gave millons of people jobs and something to do instead of wasting away at home doing nothing remember folks idle minds are the devils work shop idle hands are too
anathemaish 1 year ago
So I guess happiness could not have occurred under a Republican president.
goback3spaces 1 year ago
@goback3spaces damn right republicans only care about thier special interests and making a buck by stepping over anyone including there own mother. we democrats care more about the people and making the world a better place for all just not the chosen few
anathemaish 1 year ago
@anathemaish That's simplified, idealistic, and untrue. Don't have time to list all the ways Republicans have tried to make the world a better place, but I'll just cite one. Check out G.W. Bush's record on aid to Africa, which is unprecedented in the history of the U.S. God bless you!
goback3spaces 1 year ago
@goback3spaces
Now I know the source of your ignorance. You're a Republican.
Democrats are better. But they're also flawed.
Americans shouldn't be voting for parties. They should be voting for individuals with individual ideas.
The party should form around the individual, not the other way around.
Silverwire100 1 year ago
@goback3spaces
You flake!
You don't like Reds because its lead character is a communist. I've exposed your inherent bias.
Silverwire100 1 year ago
@anathemaish
Right on!
Silverwire100 1 year ago
@anathemaish That's absurd if you think the Dems are shining knights on a white steed. Both parties are not doing their job well enough. The Dems are all about abortion and homosexual "marriage", even voting for it after the people vote for normal historical marriage, as in California, or they vote against letting the people of Massachussetts decide by a referendum, The Repubs have gone nuts over "illegal immigration" without trying to legalize the workers needed by agriculture and housing.
FRAGIORGIO1 9 months ago
I heard a big band version of this once that I loved. :)
tall32guy 1 year ago
The guys sing the song so loosely and happy. :)))
slimbullet96 1 year ago
The Fedral debt of 1933 - 1945 was 122% of GDP. What is the Federal debt which the Obama administration inherited from W? It is significantly less than what FDR and Truman had to tackle. Yet, the US was still able to finance the Marshall Plan and the domestic infrastructure of the 1950s and 1960s. Democrats are not spend thrifts, the Republicans are the spend thrifts.
southenglish 1 year ago
Could you tell me where you got the picture of FDR...it would be perfect for a presentation Im assembling. Many thanks
jimmbo13 1 year ago
wheres the pics of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin??
oidad 1 year ago
@oidad Hey FDR gave every amreican the freedom to know that when they retired or if they lost there job they could have a roof over there head and food on his plate
mr1940s 1 year ago
He was the BEST man for his time. He's still one of my heros, but that was a different time. We had another mfg.& economy scenario. Nothing is backing us up now, but debt & obama's printing press! We are headed for a hard fall in the next 5 or 6 years!
450984 1 year ago
At 0:21, I love that man.
bigfilmhat 1 year ago
It was a god song until the last dictator got up there.
Oberst1488 1 year ago
substitution of hyperbole for commentary is the sign of a piddle-wit
malthust 1 year ago
@malthust oh I'm not exagerating one bit about his political ambitions and his resentment of capitalism and democracy. take your head out of the sand and really examine he who you clearly worship.
Oberst1488 1 year ago
Based on your comment and the thumbs down it's recieving, are you starting up your anti-psychosis meds or coming down from them?
bigfilmhat 1 year ago
@bigfilmhat typical of a left-wing rank and file. have no arguments on substance so must resort to character assasination. Why would I be surprised with the thumbs down? look at the tags of the video, kennedy, roosevelt, obama, new deal, of course this draws left-wingers.
Oberst1488 1 year ago
You had no arguements of any sustance your entire comment was character assassination.
I didn't make any arguement, you made an arguement that Obama is a dictator. Since your comment was bizarre and baseless, it's up to you to back up your claim, not me to back mine-because I didn't make one.
bigfilmhat 1 year ago
@bigfilmhat He is. my comment was not some rambling of a right-wing kook. Open your eyes, get off the dailykos and organizing for america and take a real long and objective look at obama and his past, he is a socialist and if he could be a dictator, he would. he shares similar qualities to many former dictators.
Oberst1488 1 year ago
@bigfilmhat My comment was character assasination?!? your attempt about anti-psychosis medication and piddle wit rather than adressing your clear opposition to my point of view was the true ducking of an argument based on facts and substance!
Oberst1488 1 year ago
You didn't make any arguement baised on facts or substance. There was nothing for me to duck, all you did was toss irrational talking points and slogans at Obama. Your comment was 100% the ramblings of a kook.
bigfilmhat 1 year ago
March 21, 2010!
vassuchka 1 year ago
(newly learnt) political baggage aside, great song and great rendition!
SacValleyDweller 1 year ago
Unfortunately we are a ways off from "Happy Days" . . . at least in terms of the economy . . . not unlike when this song first came out. Barrack was handed a terrible mess, but he is infinitely better suited for the job than the ass-clown who sat at his desk before him. I still believe a depression is an inevitability . . . we'll see if Barrack can actually stave it off . . . but I think it would take a bona-fide miracle.
jubjub2112 1 year ago 4
agreed, but I can't see it happening. I think the words "Too big to fail come back into play."
cooluke 1 year ago
Well, if life was a Hollywood movie and Obama was a stock character Spike Lee describes as a "magical negro", then I'm sure he'd do a great job fixing America. Pouring billions into failing industries, banks and nationalizing healtcare proves that Mister President doesnot dall into this offensive stereotype, however.
zhveer 1 year ago
@jubjub2112 'Barrack' was not 'handed' anything he ASKED for the job !!!
mia33134 1 year ago
Yeah, but Barrack also has added more debt...If you ask me, both of them are incompetent fools...We need a president like FDR... You know, One who instead of spending attention on healcare, would put programs inplace to make more jobs...like what FDR did, (A good example would be fixing roads, ext))
RedDracolich 1 year ago
Now dont go thinking I'm praiseing W, he was a fool, but he was also handed a economy in decline...not as drastic as our Nigro Amigo, but still. Also, dont forget that we were invloved in several conflicts... They -will- make it worse. Like I said before, we need a democratic president who Knows how to fight a war.
RedDracolich 1 year ago
Why do people believe this is a song about international politics? When I listen to it i think about family, friends and happy days.
MrAnders12345 1 year ago
Roosevelt did end the Depression with his domestic policies. The country's need to build up its military during WWII ended the Depression.
Its important to note that Roosevelt kept American out of the war for as long as he could.
Franklin Roosevelt is one of the most overrated president in U.S. history, revered for faux accomplishments.
NYerintransit 1 year ago
To NYerintransit: I have never seen such an idiyoic assessment of the end of the Depression as yours. What stupid dolt would claim such a thing? THE PLANNED WAR ENDED THE DEPRESSION! Well, I'm sorry to be so hard on you, I never like to pick on kindergarteners. By the ay, what do you smoke in your spare time studying Dick and Jane?
hlwrites 1 year ago
@hlwrites Perhaps YOU should go back to studying Dick and Jane you condescending twat. You cannot spell for toffee...........
kymbolina13 1 year ago
Your data says age is 41. YouTube wants physical age, not IQ.
hlwrites 1 year ago
you dems can go on sing silly tunes, but i march to a proud beat le internationale!
ThatsMrProducer2u 1 year ago
But happy dayz ARE here again......aren't they? maybe....kinda.......
aardvaark069 2 years ago