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2015-03-20 Government

Mercer: Grotesquely Stalinist FDR - Contemporary Parallels anyone ?

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-20 03:50|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Shortly after FDRs 4th term, the 22nd Amendment was appended to the Constitution. Too bad it didn't happen earlier.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-03-20 08:32|| 2015-03-20 08:32|| Front Page Top

#2 OK. Stalin was a bad guy and Roosevelt was a fool. No argument there. But it's a very tenuous link to a couple breakaway eastern Ukrainian provinces. And what are we supposed to do about it, let Obama lead us into WWIII? Is there a term for this particular kind of propaganda?

I'm willing to allow that Obama is an even bigger fool than Roosevelt. Putin is a bad guy too. But if you want to confront Putin, Iran is the place to do it. Hmmmm. Don't see Obama getting all worked up about that. Let's see...we let Iran have nukes and we fight Russia over a couple of eastern Ukrainian provinces that don't mean jack squat to us. Is that what the writer is saying?

And, oh by the way, the whole time this is happening we let the Chinese have our jobs. Let them make our computers. Let them bully and threaten our allies in the Western Pacific. Let them bully and threaten us in the Western Pacific. Is that what the writer is saying?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-03-20 11:55|| 2015-03-20 11:55|| Front Page Top

#3 History isn't about 'nice'. History hands you crap sometimes that your choice is bad or worse.

Entire groups had been branded as counterrevolutionaries-by-class, designated as sub-humans worthy of extermination

Bring taught on our campuses right now. Whatcha doing about it?

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-03-20 12:31|| 2015-03-20 12:31|| Front Page Top

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