The Source of FDR's Greatness

[CrusaderFrank]

We keep hearing that "FDR was the Greatest President EVAH!!!" He was the greatest! The Greatest! Historians say he was the Greatest, so he's the Greatest Evah!! In like forever!

Then you ask, "Based on what? What was the source of his greatness" and the response back is, "Denier!! FDR was the Greatest President EVAH!!!" He was the greatest! The Greatest! Historians say he was the Greatest, so he's the Greatest Evah!! In like forever!"

I must have missed something and, like the elusive Global Warming Experiment that shows a both a temperature increase and a drop in ocean pH from 8.25 to 8.15 from adding 120PPM of CO2, I can't find the source of FDR's Greatness.

Help me out here will ya?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

We keep hearing that "FDR was the Greatest President EVAH!!!"

Thought that was Lincoln?

As for FDR, getting people eating again and winning WWII was enough. Keeping England on the map didn't hurt either.

 

[Little-Acorn]

He had the wisdom to recognize a threat to the civilized world (Nazi and Japanese alliance), and turn his generals loose to deal with it... only to lose the world he saved, to unworkable and destructive economic quackery.

His impact is mixed at best.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

We keep hearing that "FDR was the Greatest President EVAH!!!"

Thought that was Lincoln?

As for FDR, getting people eating again and winning WWII was enough. Keeping England on the map didn't hurt either.

Right Tom Joad. He kept people unemployed for 8 years. That was covered with awesome sauce

 

[Unkotare]

He was the worst POS to ever sully the Oval Office. The current guy is taking a run at the title, but that scumbag FDR still has an all but insurmountable lead.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

We keep hearing that "FDR was the Greatest President EVAH!!!"

Thought that was Lincoln?

As for FDR, getting people eating again and winning WWII was enough. Keeping England on the map didn't hurt either.

Right Tom Joad. He kept people unemployed for 8 years. That was covered with awesome sauce

That's the right-wing lie, that you believe.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

He was the worst POS to ever sully the Oval Office. The current guy is taking a run at the title, but that scumbag FDR still has an all but insurmountable lead.

Hey Shit Boy, where you been? I know, you liked Hoover, as in, Hoovervilles. Capitalism at its finest.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Right Tom Joad. He kept people unemployed for 8 years. That was covered with awesome sauce

That's the right-wing lie, that you believe.

It is a lie.

It was 12 years.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

We keep hearing that "FDR was the Greatest President EVAH!!!"

Thought that was Lincoln?

As for FDR, getting people eating again and winning WWII was enough. Keeping England on the map didn't hurt either.

Right Tom Joad. He kept people unemployed for 8 years. That was covered with awesome sauce

That's the right-wing lie, that you believe.

From 1933 until Hitler Conquered France in 1940, US Unemployment averaged 20%.

Is that what made FDR great?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Right Tom Joad. He kept people unemployed for 8 years. That was covered with awesome sauce

That's the right-wing lie, that you believe.

From 1933 until Hitler Conquered France in 1940, US Unemployment averaged 20%.

Is that what made FDR great?

Nope...

 

[shart_attack]

Frank, you forgot to list in your poll that he turned down a ship of 1000 German Jewish refugees from entering the USA at the onset of WWII, which effectively condemned them to die in The Holocaust.

Bet that'd make some Far Lefties here really happy.

Voyage of the St. Louis

 

[Unkotare]

He was the worst POS to ever sully the Oval Office. The current guy is taking a run at the title, but that scumbag FDR still has an all but insurmountable lead.

Hey Shit Boy, where you been? I know, you liked Hoover, as in, Hoovervilles. Capitalism at its finest.

You playing 'Imagination-Time' again, idiot?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

He was the worst POS to ever sully the Oval Office. The current guy is taking a run at the title, but that scumbag FDR still has an all but insurmountable lead.

Hey Shit Boy, where you been? I know, you liked Hoover, as in, Hoovervilles. Capitalism at its finest.

You playing 'Imagination-Time' again, idiot?

I'm just picking one you'd like. If there was one who played with his own shit, that would be your guy for sure.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Frank, you forgot to list in your poll that he turned down a ship of 100K+ German Jewish refugees from entering the USA at the onset of WWII, which effectively condemned them to die in The Holocaust.

Bet that'd make some Far Lefties here really happy.

We watched while millions of Jews were slaughtered before we entered the war. Got a problem with that? It's American history.

 

[shart_attack]

Frank, you forgot to list in your poll that he turned down a ship of 1000 German Jewish refugees from entering the USA at the onset of WWII, which effectively condemned them to die in The Holocaust.

Bet that'd make some Far Lefties here really happy.

We watched while millions of Jews were slaughtered before we entered the war. Got a problem with that? It's American history.

Yeah, I got a problem with that.

Make something of it, you limp-wristed motherfucker.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Roosevelt implemented massive government programs to "help" the problems of the Great Depression, but only succeeded in drawing out the Depression to make it "Great", holding the country in an agony of economic paralysis for much longer than any depression of other economic downturn in history. It is not known how many people died, or lived shortened, more miserable lives, as a result of Roosevelt's misguided meddling in an economy he didn't understand.

Roosevelt also recognized a great threat to the civilized world, in the alliance between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and wisely turned his generals loose on them, supporting them with wise (if draconian) financial moves and industrial re-organization, thus helping to defeat and obliteate the threat. Though he made mistakes during this time, his achievement in the running of the American part of WWII was a triumph.

His warped and destructive economic policies of the pre-WWII days, continued after his death. Many linger to the present day, and place heavy and destructive burdens on the American people.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Frank, you forgot to list in your poll that he turned down a ship of 1000 German Jewish refugees from entering the USA at the onset of WWII, which effectively condemned them to die in The Holocaust.

Bet that'd make some Far Lefties here really happy.

We watched while millions of Jews were slaughtered before we entered the war. Got a problem with that? It's American history.

Yeah, I got a problem with that.

Make something of it, you limp-wristed motherfucker.

Well that's a shame that you think it's a problem because most Americans then didn't and weren't about to get into another World War, so, we just sat back and read about the slaughter in the papers. We're pretty damn good at that.

 

[BlindBoo]

No imagined source of greatness Frankie.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Well this beat up FDR thread died. I wonder why? Don't we all want to discuss how great America was then? You know, a light unto the world, a shining city upon a hill?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

That's the right-wing lie, that you believe.

From 1933 until Hitler Conquered France in 1940, US Unemployment averaged 20%.

Is that what made FDR great?

Nope...

Your chart is a BS recent revision to make FDR look better than his record

Unemployment Statistics during the Great Depression

1933 24.75 < FDR inuagerated
1934 21.60
1935 19.97
1936 16.80
1937 14.18
1938 18.91
1939 17.05
1940 14.45 < Hitler Conquers France