Eleanor Roosevelt Has Some Advice For Republicans

[kpete]

"If I were a Republican today, I think I would ask my Party to take a clear-cut stand. At present it is not clear-cut. They say, for instance, they are against the Administration’s health bill because it is "Socialized Medicine". But they acknowledge that we need more medical care throughout the country. And so they are vaguely for better medical care without specifying exactly how it is to be accomplished."
--Eleanor Roosevelt, June 1950

http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/documents/displaydoc.cfm?_t=articles&_docid=artc026712
via:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/23/839836/-Eleanor-Roosevelt-Has-Some-Advice-For-Republicans

[midnight]

1. K&R. I knew Eleanor to be a person whom I admired so much because of her

common sense and thoughtfulness for those less fortunate.... This is a wonderful reminder to those lacking in common sense. Great find.

[Fleshdancer]

2. screw the republicans for making this quote timeless

I adore Eleanor Roosevelt and she has said many quotable things that stand the test of time. THIS quote however, should be an embarrassment for the republican party because it's still true.

[Captain Hilts]

5. So, SO ahead of her time. As she was dying she was attending fund raisers to get Mandela freed. nt

[upi402]

3. citing Eleanor Roosevelt is

citing a hero of mine, and gets a rec and a kick!

[defendandprotect]

11. Me, too -- !!

[Captain Hilts]

4. Was there a greater US citizen in the 20th Century. I'm starting to think not. Also note:

ALL the MOST progressive folks around FDR were former Republicans:

ER
Ickes
Wallace

[Betty Karlson]

7. Don't be unfair to them!

Eleanor and Franklin's other progressive play-pals belonged to the GOP when it was still more progressive than the Democratic Party. They simply changed their affiliation when the GOP decided to get stuck in the past, and the Dems decided to keep up with the present.

Around 1955, the remaining progressive Republicans found out why Eleanor had done so. Around 1990, even moderate Republicans started to see her point. Around 2008, even old-fashioned conservatives saw she had a point, and they voted accordingly for the first time.

As for Mrs Roosevelt being the greatest U.S. citizen of the 20th century, you are right. But you are also doing her short.

She was the great inspiration and ceaseless advocate of the United Nations, and all its branches of humanitarian and charity work. Imagine what the world would look like without this monumental contribution to the betterment of mankind and the promotion of intercultural understanding!

Mrs Roosevelt was the greatest U.S. citizen ever.

[Captain Hilts]

8. Yes. She was. She gets bigger every year. nt

[Warpy]

6. Well, that's always the problem with them

They issue mission statements and call them policy. They are utterly incapable of designing the nuts and bolts of any program.

The only thing they ever seem to do is rearrange the tax code to favor the rich.

[Captain Hilts]

9. Time for me to note that "Mrs. Robinson" was originally entitled "Mrs. Roosevelt." nt

[defendandprotect]

10. I'd say the same thing to Obama --MEDICARE FOR ALL -- take a stand ---

a stand that would put the Dems in power for the next 40 years!!

[troubledamerican]

12. Baloney. This is Eleanor Roosevelt's advice for Harry Reid. Take a clear-cut stand.

[MzNov]

13. K&R

squared