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[Alpha Mare]

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Drunken Irishman  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Jul-06-10 06:55 PM
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It's a good thing Americans and the left didn't give up on Roosevelt early into his presidency.
   
Especially when things only got marginally better for a great deal of the nation throughout his first four years.

The Great Depression lasted almost four years. The Great Recession roughly a little less than two years.

And that doesn't count the 1937 recession, which could be considered one of the worst recessions of the 20th Century. But since it happened in the shadows of the Great Depression, it was an afterthought.

quiet.american  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jul-06-10 07:28 PM
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1. Good points, all, DI -- furthermore, it's a good thing FAUX et al. weren't around then either --
   
-- all FDR had to contend with was Prescott Bush and his posse of tycoons plotting to literally overthrow him.

Good points all that you make.

Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.  This is what happens when you get your "facts" from Leftipedia.

[franksolich]

Using that same logic, it's a good thing Americans didn't give up on Ronald Reagan in the very early 1980s, when things from the CarterDepression kept going downhill.  Just as the Great Depression got worst after Franklin Roosevelt became president, so too did the CarterDepression 1981-1983. after the Incompetent One was gone.

Oops, I erred, though.

After a landslide victory in 1980, the Republicans suffered some substantial setbacks in the mid-term elections of 1982.  (Unlike the Democrats in 1934, two years after the first Roosevelt landslide.)

But fortunately for America, and the world in general, the course had been righted by 1984, leading to the longest peace-time expansion of the economy and affluence in American history.

[Wineslob]

DUmbfounding that they still can't let go of erroneous "facts" about Prescott, what, 70 years later?

[DumbAss Tanker]

Or their willingness to throw any idea or tradition of democratic governance over the side if it gives them an advantage, and they aren't absolutely required by law to obey it...meaning in particular Roosevelt's 'Cult of personality' and successful attempt to become President for Life, notwithstanding the very sound two-term precedent set by Washington.

[AllosaursRus]

Or their willingness to throw any idea or tradition of democratic governance over the side if it gives them an advantage, and they aren't absolutely required by law to obey it...meaning in particular Roosevelt's 'Cult of personality' and successful attempt to become President for Life, notwithstanding the very sound two-term precedent set by Washington.

Well he actually was president for life. Good thing he wasn't any younger. I can just imagine him destroying the economy after the war in order welfare us to death!

[Duke Nukum]

Didn't FDR essentially use Hoover policies with a new name?

[AllosaursRus]

Didn't FDR essentially use Hoover policies with a new name?

Yep! Drove the country right into the ground! If it hadn't been for us having to bail Europe out again, he would have been in the same boat as Carter was years later!