1912 US Election Campaign Speech Audio - Woodrow Wilson 1 of 6

[jaredabccrisscross]

If you listened to a single fucking thing he said you wouldn't be criticizing him. It's amazing that Wilson haters swarm his video and leave hateful comments about things the video has nothing to do with like the Fed. This is about giving workers a fair chance and we'd do well to listen to what he's saying

[thefightmaster3000]

Ughhhhh.... I'm not Wilson's biggest fan.....

[marleyanddalton]

The comments are filled with bad things about Wilson, yet the video has no dislikes.

[1RadicalDreamer]

THANK YOU FOR THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT YOU PIECE OF SHIT!

[mattador2792]

Thanks to Woodrow Wilson the United States now thinks its the world police.

[Curtastrophic]

@mattador2792 i think that started with roosevelt..... then put away by taft then brought back by this guy.

[cuwisiu03]

Listening to Ben Bernanke's favorite president is boring, but we should remember people did not have hyperactive disorders like we do today known as ADD. I'm sure the NRA would highly approve of kulkyone's message, but still FDR is a fake Liberal (Progressive) traitor

[KnightsTemplar15]

Wilson was a great President. He won WWI and put forth the idea of the League of Nations that became the United Nations. He also started the Federal Reserve wich is part of the problem now but worked for the previous 90 or so years

[TheLadyTavington]

Thank you for posting this! What a joy to actually hear this man's voice- it is beautiful!

[UncleMikeNJ]

Because of his appearance, I always imagined Wilson to have a high-pitched nasal voice, like the schoolmaster he was often portrayed as. This ignores his Southern origins. But his voice betrays no location. Not even Princeton, about 20 miles from where I grew up. No prep-school haughtiness here, as with a successor, 1980s Governor Tom Kean: "New Juhsey and you, puhfect together."

[HereinLasVegas]

Wilson = Fabian socialist.

[kevinherbert]

Wilson & Clemenceau were either fools...or class traitors......

[Radetzky19]

I read alot about this man in Macmillians, Paris 1919: Six months that changed the world. He may have been controvertial at home, but he was ahead of his time and took strides in international relations.. Americans needed to realize they could no longer live in isolation

[hulkyone]

Indeed, Wilson was eccentric. He even once argued that checks and balances were bad for society. Theodore Roosevelt-the kind of Republican who had moral decency and would've been shot at by todays nutty right-wing commentators- thought of him as a drugstore clerk, and he was later proven right after World War I ended. Wilson just offered the Central Powers a friendly unconditional surrender and agreed not to occupy the nations; this allowed the door to open for World War II.

[xexixk]

@hulkyone General Pershing actually had it right when he said of the Treaty of Versaille "that it would leave Germany in a state of permanent bankruptcy and poverty, eventually the people will rebel and in 20 years we will be fighting another war." If it wasn't for the vindictiveness of that treaty which did indeed leave Germany in such a state and the complete and total economic collapse of the Weimar Republic, WW II would not have happened.

[hulkyone]

@xexixk Indeed, Pershing was quite right. However, it wasn't just the Treaty of Versailles that was to blame. It wasn't the type of unconditional surrender that had won both the American Civil War and World War II. The armies didn't occupy, or even reconstruction, many of the core sections of Germany, or even Berlin for that matter, like they did after World War II. The closest the Allies got towards Berlin before the armistice was in the Argonne Forest in France.

[xexixk]

@hulkyone True, but a major reason for staying after WW II was b/c of the Soviet Union - their occupation of and creation of what became East Germany. It was the fear of Soviet Expansion that played a major role in keeping us there.

[Professor6871]

@xexixk Pershing could definitely see into the future there. Without the punishing Treaty of Versaille there may not have ot been a WW2.

[xexixk]

@Professor6871 Then there are others who have put forward the theory that if the monarchy was not abolished but made into a constituional monarchy - Kaiser Wilhelm stepping downing of course and it then being given to the crown prince perhaps a power vacuum would not have been created that led to the rise of Hitler and his minions. I've read some of Churchill's writtings where he essentially makes that claim.

[Professor6871]

@xexixk But Versaille was over the top because it gave Hitler and his elk ammunition too rage another war as they did.

[xexixk]

@Professor6871 Yes Versailles was over the top, the issue of the monarchy is just another theory some have put forward.

[Professor6871]

@xexixk Yes I studied this particular question while I was at university in connextion with the causes of the First World War and Nazi Germany. Counterfactuals are very interesting but the most important one of these in my view, is that if WW1 had not taken place as it did, then Hitler and his minions wouldn't of been able to have stared the next one. The Great War and its immediate aftermath laid the foundations for WW2

[xexixk]

@Professor6871 Yes, I think most historians would agree that Versailles was disastrous. It's also of course why a different track was taken after WW II was over - the Marshall Plan, etc.

[UncleMikeNJ]

I used to admire Wilson a lot -- though that may have been colored by the fact that he is the only New Jersey-based politician to become President. But he was so unsuited to the job it was ridiculous. His health was always precarious, and he took the slightest question as to his works and motives as a slap in the face. This was a far greater drawback than his racial views, which, while noxious, were hardly unusual for the 1910s. He never should have run -- especially for a 2nd term.

[nbk247]

If it was up to Woodrow Wilson, the United States would have dictators now instead of presidents. total fascist!

[jbond5150]

@nbk247 no, if it were up to him we would have a parliamentarian system. if thats fascist then so are 80 percent of the current democracies in the world.

[xtiml]

this princeton imbecile vies with FDR as biggest traitors to amelika.

[hulkyone]

@xtiml FDR was no traitor, YOU STUPID IMBECILE. He gave his life fighting to free Europe and the Pacific from the rule of tyranny. He even supported the bad dictators Trujillo and Somoza, in large part because they were anti-Communist; it was even reported that he said "Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch."

[Cashify]

@hulkyone if anyone doubts the loyalties of FDR, google "it is not new and it is not order."

[hulkyone]

@Cashify Indeed, they should. They probably should also read the words following the statement "it is not new and it is not order" too. He said this great quout at the annual dinner for White House correspondents on March 15, 1941:"They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order." Indeed, it was quite a pro-democracy quote

[Sistarovat]

Wilson was honest, loved his contry, and truly believed he was helping his nation and the world, but his nation-building, globalistic foreign policies have bit by bit destroyed our nation's world standing in the hearts and minds of other nations and our national sovereignty.

[1yearyounger]

The only bad thing about wilson was his lack to help blacks, which was typical back then.

[jerzy862]

@1yearyounger LOL its more than that. His establishment of a Private Bank, The Federal Reserve, answerable to no one but its shareholders, has the sole power over our nations money supply and can affect inflation or deflation.

[Lordmaster36]

@jerzy862 The Fed has no shareholders, it's an independent branch of government more reminiscent of the Supreme Court than of a private bank.

[b4rbalarfer]

@1yearyounger and that he sent american troops to russia for a possible invasion. His actions caused the mistrust that paved the way for the cold war.

[1yearyounger]

@b4rbalarfer That was because of the Russian Civil war, i guess he wanted to support the Czar because the Czar was agaisnt Germany. Also, he probably was afraid the new Russian government, because Russia did attack certain countries near their borders, and obviously he did not want that.

[david52875]

@1yearyounger lack to help blacks? He went out of his way to HURT blacks.

[zyxel27]

HE did not order segregation. Rather, the worst that can be said of him is that he was complicit in allowing it to be instituted.

[1yearyounger]

Wilson was pretty good but he let racism florish and that was absolutly horrible thats why he is not in the top 10 best presidents but he is definatly near it

[zyxel27]

Some of you have your facts mixed up. The "writing history" comment has never been verified. One person reported that Wilson merely left the room without saying anything. Also, it was not his idea to show "the Birth of a Nation" in the whitehouse. DW Griffith, the film's creator asked Wilson if he could show it. They were former colleagues at Johns Hopkins, so Wilson felt obligated. To be sure, Wilson did not address racial issues as he should have, but his ideas were genuine and progressive.

[chupacabrajackson]

@zyxel27 Wilson himself ordered segregation of Washington DC and of Federal institutions where there had been no segregation previously at any time in America's history. He was a vile and evil man.

jstor.org/pss/2716036

[hulkyone]

Wilson was also quite eccentric too. He even once criticized checks and balances as being too weak, when it most certainly doesn't show to be weak at all. He's arguably showing a little of that eccentric mind of his in this piece, like when he says "we have two things, a political party and a body of social reformers." As president, Theodore Roosevelt demonstrated he was quite a reformer and he did not lean laissez-faire too much at all. That is why Roosevelt ran against Taft in this election

[hulkyone]

It was probably his inferior-minded views of foreigners that caused his foreign post-World War I policies to eventually fall apart. The League of Nations was weak and was nothing com. It was Franklin Roosevelt who fixed Wilson's mistakes. The League of Nations was really nothing compared to the United Nations

[hulkyone]

Indeed, Wilson was quite loyal to his Confederate roots and did not bother to think for himself when it came to race. As smart as people, like Wilson, can be, they still have personal preferences. It's a shame a great domestic leader like Wilson was such a loyal, pro-Confederate bigot; he even exaggerated how the fictional film The Birth of A Nation was "like history in writing."

[C3P0meetsData]

I just don't understand how elections happened without television, internet and radio. How did you know who to vote for?

[isingforno1]

@C3P0meetsData newspapers mates

[MrPontiusPilate]

Wilson was another former confederate that believed favored white christian rights over other's. What would you expect from a confedederate? It's funny how southerners now deny that he is one of them. One of them old southern democrats. It just goes to show you that the south is one big black hole of thought.

[ToxicOdiousOne]

Good intentions? I suppose Lenin and Stalin and FDR had "good intentions" too. Philosopher kings like inPlato's The Republic. They are evil men who force individuals to act outside of their own best selfish interests for the betterment of society. No collectivism is never justifiable.

[MrPontiusPilate]

@ToxicOdiousone

"They are evil men who force individuals to act outside of their own best selfish interests for the betterment of society."

Would you say that Washington can fit that same definition? Or any of the leaders of the American revolution? That defintion seems to fit them to a tee. They encouraged the colonists to fight a war against the greatest power on earthj. A war which brought on poverty and death(obviously outiside of self interest). All for the good of the "nation."

[ToxicOdiousOne]

FDR style traitor. He disrespected our Constitution!

[hulkyone]

It's a shame Wilson was such a bigot. He was raised in a pro-Confederate Virginia and he was loyal to the beliefs of that environment

[redarrowhead]

Teddy wanted regulation and he wanted fragmentation. A true states rights man, and, in my solemn opinion, what America needs today.

[redarrowhead]

Wilson was a good man with good intentions. He, however, took the first step into America becoming "the world police state." It is hard to agree with all of a presidents policies and Wilson is no exception. He suspended freedoms in war and went into a war that America did not want. He at least did not advocate for a welfare state and did support segregation. His advocacy for a League of Nations was admirable, but today we realize that its counterpart, the UN, is not very effective.

[bonfirejovi]

@redarrowhead "Wilson was a good man with good intentions."

You mean like segregating congress and showing A Birth of a Nation to congress?

[MrPontiusPilate]

@bonfirejovi

How did he segregate congress?

[duvexy]

@redarrowhead Tyranny is paved with good intentions.

[cvvemuri]

Wilson had some good ideas but was also quite hypocritical (ie: segregation in DC)

On a more linguistic note, his accent is quite interesting. It sounds quite Scottish to a certain degree.

Probably a result of his Scotch-Irish parentage.

[schauwn]

The Third Way... not Left not Right but something great that will replace all... isn't National Socialism delivered to the American people through Liberal Fascism grand? "We're going to adopt you (industry)... and run it the way that we tell you to run it." Then the last comment speaking to the importance of the intellect, "will you have fresh brains?" Will you progress with us, march to the beat of the collective will of the people, silencing all dissenting voices?

[capevideo]

Wilson.......this is where the trouble started.

[bfoaliali]

@capevideo Would you mind explaining how?

[alexander92648]

@capevideo how so?

[bonfirejovi]

@capevideo He was an evil racist.

[ToaJoe]

@capevideo I'm not seeking an argument, but why do I see so many comments from Americans saying Wilson was a terrible president? I'm interested to know, I thought he was quite popular.

[GrandAuthorYun]

@ToaJoe Wilson was the first president to treat the Constitution and the limits it placed on his ability to act with contempt. He was quite outspoken and shameless in his belief that the Constitution was outdated and should be ignored. He was also a shameless technocrat, believing that the average person was too stupid to govern himself, and that representative democracy should be replaced with autocratic rule by "experts."

[GrandAuthorYun]

@ToaJoe If you listen to some of Roosevelt's speeches from the same year, he pretty much calls Wilson out on his contempt for democracy, though not by name.

[jbond5150]

@capevideo and what trouble would that be? passing legislation that busts trusts and prevent workers from getting screwed?

[Lordmaster36]

@jbond5150 Liberals, always ruining business' good times since 1912...

*crosses fingers* Sorry businesses...

[johnjaydoeful]

@jbond5150 Read Kolko's The Triumph of Conservatism..

[johnjaydoeful]

@capevideo We had trouble from the start.

[dannyd1572]

@capevideo WIlson is the reason we have an organized army to defend ourselves from global forces. Otherwise we could be speaking German right now.

[JohnHess65]

The money changers.Look at that docu on this website.Industry?No,the bankers and their helpers were at work.

[Crackerboy10]

Econ 115 Woot!