Enough of the postmortem wounds to FDR & Eleanor!

Last night, during the course of interviewing someone about his impression of the Pope, Scarborough managed to fit in a postmortem pot-shot at FDR.

The transcript isn't up yet, so I'll paraphrase what he said. "When people would meet FDR in the flesh, they came away with less of an opinion of him..."

I realize the right hates the New Deal and has sworn to do everything in its power to dismantle it, but...

1) Congressman Joe, you aren't one any longer. You are supposed to be a journalist. Let me put it in a syntax you might understand: "Iffin' you can't prove it, you ain't supposed to be a-sayin' it."

2) Beating up on the dead is a despicable practice by those without the wits to take on the living.

3) Even elementary students understand that people belittle others because they feel insignificant themselves.

after they met him. I've never seen any evidence of Scarborough's assertion in print.

I think that Scarborough is referring to the fact that people who met FDR personally saw him in a wheelchair and that these people thought the less of FDR because he couldn't stand without help.

I know of no evidence that this is true.

I disagree with Republicans but I don't imagine that destroying them and their ideas completely is necessary, or even necessarily a good idea. I think many Democrats feel the same. We want to win, we don't want to destroy.

Many Republicans, it seems to me, want to destroy. In effect they want to raise the Demcoratic Party / the Liberal Movement to the ground and salt the earth so that nothing can grow there ever again. In order to do that they will need to destroy America's positive opinions of FDR and Martin L. King as well as others. Either destroy them, or distort them so that they can appropriate them as Conservative Icons.

Personally I think this lust to destroy is a sign of the insecurity of Conservativesm.

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I was just there on Tuesday and hearing the words coming out of people's mouths during the intro film before touring the house, people say they came away with a greater impression of him - that he wasn't just some rich politician from New York, that he was actually one of them. One says that "he was our best friend" and that even as President, he would drive up to their house (in his specially designed car that he designed himself) and knock on their doors and talk to them about how he could make their lives better.

I came away from Warm Springs inspired by what we can do and how we can inspire stupid redneck idiots to vote for the party that always has and always will look out of them.

And Mr. Scarborough - FDR isn't here to defend himself you pathetic asshole. You wanna debate the merits of the New Deal, come see me. Until then, shut up about things you know nothing about.

The History Channel is doing a piece on FDR this month and a made for HBO movie, Warm Springs, http://www.hbo.com/events/warmsprings/?ntrack_para1=leftnav_category4_show0, is premiering Saturday, April 30.

What an asshat!

Because anyone meeting him already knows he's human garbage... most folks count themselves lucky just to get out of his office alive!

The repukes always get so pissed off when someone brings up FDR. It'w quite amusing.