I welcome their hatred F D Roosevelt

On October 31, 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a campaign speech before a crowd at Madison Square Garden. The words he spoke could be uttered in our present time. I have edited this just over 30-minute speech down to less than 10 minutes to provide highlights. We need this kind of leadership today.

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• Franklin Roosevelt
• campaign speech
• October 31
• 1936
• Madison Sqyare Garden

[Astoriaguy23]

Somebody mentioned he or she doesn't understand why Republicans hate America and want to take it down. The Repugs don't hate America (hell, is there any other country on earth where, if you're rich, you can live the good life, a nation which gives you so many advantages and privileges if you're rich?) The Repugs hate YOU if you're not as well-off as they are, if you have different values, and/or don't believe or live as they do...Wake up, America!

[howdoiquityou2006]

all you so called Obama supporters who dont like what he s doing the alternative is even more dangerous too the homeland than any terrorist can be

[CameroneTheZionist]

Hail comrade@revolt426,

FDR bombed Germany´s economic concurrence out of existence, was happy to see the British Empire crumble full of debt and made the favor to his Jewish bankers to execute a regime change in Germany to bring again to power a Zionist friendly to Israhell.

Sieg Heil!

[revolt426]

FDR was the greatest statesman since Lincoln. He was faced with enemies in his own White House and Congress, enemies in London and finally enemies in Japan and Germany. He was able to juggle these enemies by manipulating them and bypass the blockades from within his own Government.

[revolt426]

@eslebespanien You are an absolute fool. FDR was faced with the greatest financial catastrophe in modern history and turned on the bankers, the ones who were in his own class - and halted the United States from being destroyed either by becoming a Fascist State or simply disintegrating economically with bold experiments in economics that had never been done before.

[Derekrife1]

@rolandacevans FDR did end the recession in the technical sense. The depression didn't end, but he did manage to take a huge chunk out of the unemployment rate by lowering it from 25% at the beginning of his presidency to 12% at the end of his second term before the war ended it in his third.

[dob90210]

The Homeland ~ The Third Reich

[rolandacevans]

F.D.R was a great orator whose record is mixed. What he did do was lift morale and take some measures to regulate banks which Clinton eased in the 1990's with severe consequences. The poor were protected, land reforms protected people of all colours. He ended child labour probably his greatest legacy, he fought business monopoly.

Hoover a very able man presented as morose and pessimistic, a poor communicator and as a consequence morale slumped.

F.D.R failed to end the recession. War did.

[eslebespanien]

Delano Roosevelt, the murderer of Europe. Sieg Heil!

[joecool89nm]

The only reason the economy is in the shape it is in now is because we undid most of what FDR. I'm proud to be a New Deal Democrat!

[artisanrox]

This is the sort of audio/video that those who support SOPA and PIPA don't want us to see.

[thegill666]

@JDTR1900

we need a "new deal" 3 4 5 and so on

FDR legacy is sadly rooting away

[JDTR1900]

We need another FDR.

[Salvysahagun]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the great-great grandson of Isaac Roosevelt the Co-Founder of Bank of New York with Alexander Hamilton... In short FDR is the last president was the family connection to the Founding fathers.... Take that Tea Party.

[roosevelt1933]

I have seen a lot of negative comments here about president Obama. It is not fair to compare him to FDR who was the greatest ever. However Obama has done a good job. He has saved the auto industry, dismantled al-Queada, took down Kadaffi, took down the Somali pirates, produced 21 straight months of job growth, taken the economy from shrinking at 6% when he took office to now growing at 2.5%. He has done a good job and people need to get off his back! THe GOP is to blame for our problems not him

[Salvysahagun]

“When we all burst into Washington . . . we found every essential idea [of the New Deal] enacted in the 100-day Congress in the Hoover administration itself. The essentials of the NRA, the PWA, the emergency relief setup were all there.”

-Raymond Moley FDR Cabinet Member

[roosevelt1933]

Our greatest president EVER! Elected by the American people to four terms. When FDR took office in 1933 our country was paralyzed by the great depression. Under his leadership he carried us on his back to become the most powerful country in the world by the early 1940's. His presidency should be the blueprint for all other presidents.

[AtheistinFundyLand]

We need an FDR and all we get are the likes of Curly, Larry and Moe.

[jumpbacktome]

The best president of the 20th century! Sure, he had some gaffes, and his personal life was muddled at best, but he was ambitious, tactical, motivational, and, most importantly, focused on what was best for the majority of Americans! We need another president like FDR who is willing to be experimental, willing to be ridiculed, and willing to defy Wall Street for the benefit of the people!

[ahmnatheist]

That may as well have been given today.

[Boelcke1919]

Come back, FDR. We need you ... or someone like you again. Wall Street and their hired goons (the police) are killing the American people. It is all about the money and corporate excess. The police are hired to use guns and clubs to protect that greed. This has all the smell this autumn of Paris, 1789.

[BrentShiver]

@BuddyNovinski Lincoln was definately #1. No other president had to deal with a literal civil war. At least with WW2 etc. we were united as a country behind a common goal and common enemy. Lincoln had to deal with a Nation that was literally split in half and fighting itself. No other strife our nation has had to deal with has been as bad as that.

[BrentShiver]

@lancer89032 Right wing conservative? A true conservative (not a Bush/ McCain Progressive wants smaller government. Obama has never met a government program, bill, spending etc. that he didnt like. If government can spend, or do something hes in favor of it. If government can bail out a big corporation hes in favor of it. Thats not right wing. Its definately not conservative.

[airforcemax]

"Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway." ~ Dr. Robert Anthony

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. ~ Zen Proverb

[lancer89032]

@1rendezvous Yes, so right. Obama is just another corporate whore. Obama never needed any money because he was the big money candidate. Obama is a right wing conservative. He had the power to discontinue the tax breaks for the wealthy but he chose to support his contributors. So laughable that some american idiots call him a socialist. He is far far from that.

[ghairraigh]

During the 80's I used to ask my older customers (age 70+up) "who was the greatest American President you recall in your lifetime?" Almost without exception the reply was Harry Truman. No one recalled anyone from more recent times...