Bush quotes FDR? Pffftt!!!

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Bush said:

As Franklin Roosevelt once reminded Americans, "each age is a dream that is dying, or one that is coming to birth."

FDR made this quote in his second inaugural address.

FDR went on to say:


"I see millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day by day.

I see millions whose daily lives in city and on farm continue under conditions labeled indecent by a so-called polite society half a century ago.

I see millions denied education, recreation, and the opportunity to better their lot and the lot of their children.

I see millions lacking the means to buy the products of farm and factory and by their poverty denying work and productiveness to many other millions.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished."


FDR's statement was not a boast, but a promise that he would ensure that our government would ". . . make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern." But, Bush's main concern seems to be the elevation of his party and his presidency at the expense of everyone else.

FDR delivered on his ideals with the signing of the Social Security Act two years before he made the address. Bush intends that his legacy will include the unraveling of that compact and the advancement of individual ambition over collective responsibility. What a disappointing contrast.

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1. and Baybee Boosh is quoting him while trying to destroy his program

which was the greatest, least corrupt, most sucessful government program in the history of the U.S.
Social Security!
We can't let him do it.

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4. I heard some conservative hack say that the FDR quote was good strategy

We need to remind folks that we knew FDR, and Bush is no FDR. He is the anti-FDR.

[dflprincess]

8. And he continues to do so even though

James Roosevelt, Jr. has said he wants him to stop using his grandfather this way. Somehow, Roosevelt needs to get more airtime.

[Rapcw]

2. Bush obviously disagrees with FDR about the fear part

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9. Fear Bush.

http://www.fearbush.com/blog

[SaveElmer]

3. Republican have to quote Democrats because...

There aren't any great Republicans to quote!!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Outstanding observation

LOL

[BrklynLiberal]

6. Right, except for Lincoln...

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7. Indeed, Lincoln

At Edwardsville, Illinois, on September 11, 1858, Abraham Lincoln said:

"What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoast, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. These are not the reliance against the resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against our liberties without making us stronger or weaker for the struggle."

"Our reliance is in the love of liberty, which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is the preservation of the spirit, which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere." Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your down doors."

"Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage," Lincoln warned, and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you."