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catbyte

(34,403 posts) Mon Sep 12, 2016, 11:59 AM Sep 2016

"Roosevelt fought all of WWII crippled, in a wheelchair with polio..."

I love Malcom Nance! Tamron Hall is interviewing him on MSNBC. He said that it's telling that "on the day after 9/11, people are talking about pneumonia instead of security", and that Donald Trump is basically a dangerous joke.

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"Roosevelt fought all of WWII crippled, in a wheelchair with polio..." (Original Post) catbyte Sep 2016 OP

True, however we may want to stay away from that particular example. trotsky Sep 2016 #1

What a poor example. former9thward Sep 2016 #2

trotsky

(49,533 posts)

1. True, however we may want to stay away from that particular example.

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Mon Sep 12, 2016, 12:35 PM

Sep 2016

FDR's clearly failing health at Malta is thought by many historians to have been exploited by Stalin to gain a stronger post-war position for the USSR.

I do wish the media would provide some balance on this issue however, by pressing Drumpf surrogates for assurances that a significantly overweight 70-year-old man is fit for office.

former9thward

(32,025 posts)

2. What a poor example.

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Mon Sep 12, 2016, 12:56 PM

Sep 2016

At the Yalta Conference with Churchill and Stalin, Roosevelt often would fall asleep in the meetings. He was only a couple months from death at that point. Stalin took advantage of it and got the U.S. to agree to Russian hegemony over Eastern Europe after the war.

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