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• Sunday, August 24, 2008 07:49 AM

  Xrandadu Hutman, excellent correction on Maranci

  RIGHT! HUH? "We needed an FDR; instead we're stuck with a pack of sleazy opportunists." – Peter Maranci

  Sorry, Franklin Delano Roosevelt could not get elected in this day and age; every misstep in his 12-year presidency would be viasected by a Republican party that TO THIS DAY thinks he’s a traitor to his class, allowed Pearl Harbor, and started the Great Depression!

  The modern conservative movement of Goldwater, Reagan and Bush were all schooled on the dogma of reversing the NEW DEAL!

  Democrats, and most of the nation, see FDR as national hero: saving capitalism from itself, opening to civil rights, defeating fascism to list just a few.

  However, FDR is still getting SWIFT-BOATED today.

  In the press, on the web, in blogs, even on YouTube, Neo-cons who believe the TRUE CONTSITUTION was subverted in 1939. By the way, those sycophants now have career jobs in Our Justice Department. There is a Herbert Hoover “fan club” actively bashing FDR!

  Xrandadu Hutman has succinctly identified the progressive/liberal/democratic flaw - the tendency to pass up the Good / Great Candidates while waiting for their particular brand of Prefect / Super-Mythical Candidate.

  OBAMA and BIDEN are GREAT ENOUGH!

  Get on Board! Be apart of this Coalition of Change!

  —bensonrt Read bensonrt's other letters
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