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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 03:47 PM Original message |
FDR's "cult of personality." |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
1. Or, the Depression proved the Republicans were wrong. |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 03:51 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Do you have applesauce? |
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bunnies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 03:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. applesauce??? |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 03:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. You're already on it. |
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bunnies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 04:01 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. oh. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 03:56 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Uh, the 32 election was about the Depression, not slogans and personality. |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 04:00 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. No doubt. But the professor's point was that FDR WAS about... |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 04:06 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. FDR was about a proven Democratic platform that was years in the making. |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 04:10 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. The professor's point was that people discount charisma as worthless and phony... |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 04:54 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. And we shouldn't lose the fact that the "agent of change" is merely the catalyst. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. FDR, Gandhi, JFK, MLK, RFK, Obama - those pesky cults of personality |
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Big Blue Marble (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 04:16 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. Churchill was another one of these suspicious types as well. |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 10:18 PM Response to Reply #13 |
23. All bluster, he was! |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-11-08 09:58 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. . |
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incapsulated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-11-08 01:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
29. One of those things is not like the others |
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IndyOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
4. Another Fox Piven statement from the same interview that I liked: |
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RuleOfNah (603 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 04:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
18. Those wacky Republicans. |
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surfermaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
5. Did he mention by the 30's the nation had two more terms of republicans |
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OzarkDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
14. Leap of faith for Obama? Why bother? |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. If that's what you believe, then you should vote according to that. |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
15. Excellent post. The ability to inspire counts. |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
19. “When I Heard Obama speak, I cried. He reminds me of FDR” |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 07:19 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Wow. That's powerful. |
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newmajority (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
21. Living Colour's Cult of Personality |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-10-08 08:10 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Tasty track. Haven't thought of them forever. |
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suston96 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-11-08 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
25. FDR? My parents worshipped him, but I remember the depression..... |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-11-08 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
26. FDR had a prior solid record of accomplishment as Governor of New York |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-11-08 12:56 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. So you agree. Inspiration is important. |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-11-08 01:02 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Yes, certainly. It is an important element of good leadership |
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incapsulated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-11-08 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
30. People loved FDR because of what he DID for them |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-11-08 03:28 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. According to the good professor, the people pushed him beyond... |
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