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LiberalArkie

(15,728 posts) Thu Oct 29, 2015, 09:45 AM Oct 2015

Obama right that Roosevelt was called a socialist and a communist

Obama has mentioned the Roosevelt comparison several times recently, including during an interview on Late Night with David Letterman on Sept. 21, 2009:

"What's happened is that whenever a president tries to bring about significant changes, particularly during times of economic unease, then there is a certain segment of the population that gets very riled up," Obama said. "FDR was called a socialist and a communist."

Indeed, Roosevelt was called a socialist or a communist many times. Most of that criticism came in the 1930s, when he was enacting programs intended to pull the country out of the Great Depression.

• "Roosevelt is a socialist, not a Democrat," declared Republican Rep. Robert Rich of Pennsylvania during a debate on the House floor on July 23, 1935. That remark came after Republicans hinted they were considering a move to impeach Roosevelt, according to the New York Times .

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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/22/barack-obama/obama-roosevelt-socialist-communist/

Note: And he was elected 4 times

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Obama right that Roosevelt was called a socialist and a communist (Original Post) LiberalArkie Oct 2015 OP

And the business people that notably supported Mussolini's fascist system tried to launch a coup... cascadiance Oct 2015 #1

FDR even called himself a socialist... no, wait, he didn't. wyldwolf Oct 2015 #2

Meanwhile, the REAL Socialists and Communists DESPISED FDR. eom MohRokTah Oct 2015 #3

That's very correct. Chitown Kev Oct 2015 #5

...as was Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson, or any person of color who dared to argue for Liberal_Stalwart71 Oct 2015 #4

cascadiance

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1. And the business people that notably supported Mussolini's fascist system tried to launch a coup...

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Thu Oct 29, 2015, 11:14 AM

Oct 2015

... against FDR headed up by real American Smedley Butler who exposed that fascist plot and stopped it before it could happen.

Gerald MacGuire, who tried to recruit Butler to do this coup, was a bond salesman tool of JP Morgan and Dupont amongst other businessmen that didn't make it a secret that they wanted Mussolini's fascism to replace our government through a coup. He said this:

"We need a fascist government in this country... to save the nation from the communists who want to tear it down and wreck all that we have built in America. The only men who have the patriotism to do it are the soldiers, and Smedley Butler is the ideal leader. He could organize a million men overnight."

So, what are the FASCISTS of today like the Koch brothers and other 1%ers more stealthily doing to stop people like Sanders that are reviving the "socialist/communist" meme to try and shoot him down in the election? Makes you wonder.