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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 11:31 PM
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FDR/GWB comparisons on Tavis Smiley tonight - Jonathan Alter's new book...
Edited on Mon May-15-06 11:34 PM by Bozita
From Alter: "FDR SAVED CAPITALISM."

FDR selected his key people on their abilities. GWB does it based on loyalty.

Wow!

Starting now in many markets.
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 11:40 PM
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1. Yeah, for good or for bad FDR did save capitalism.
As much as the cons hate to admit it without FDR's presidency capitalism probably would have faltered and we would have probably become socialist. Revolution was in the air and FDR put an end to it before it got off the ground.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 11:45 PM
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2. Without FDR, it woulda been pitchforks and torches
FDR introduced REGULATED capitalism.

GWB has been doing his best to dismantle the REGULATED part of the New Deal.
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-16-06 12:03 AM
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3. It's amazing when you go back and look at FDR's speeches...
... the stuff he says would be lambasted as class warfare today. He would verbally destroy, as he put it, "the malefactors of great wealth" and the exploitation of the many by the wealthy few without batting an eye. Now if a candidate mentions class during a campaign he is branded a socialist or worse.

It takes spectacular times to bring about great men like him.
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-16-06 12:34 AM
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4. Lou Dobbs did an interview with Jonathan Alter last week
It was excellent. I very much like and respect Alter and the back and forth between him and Lou about FDR was very interesting.
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