@genoves,
genoves wrote:
Beautiful, Okie and exactly correct. I skewered Setanta with this idea several years ago and he has been pouting ever since. If I may extend this idea a bit further, it would appear that even FDR could be labelled a left winger
Here is what FDR said:
"What we were doing in this country were some of the things that were being done in Russia and even some of the things that were being done under Hitler in Germany, But we were doing them in an orderly way". There was an enormous bipartisan consensus that the Depression required dictatorial and fascistic policies to defeat it.
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Is this the same rationale that Obuma is using? Will he become the man on horseback to lead us to the promised land of full employment and a rising GDP with a budget under control? How can he do this?
There is no doubt whatsoever that FDR was a liberal or left leaning politician, in context with American left vs right, and I think this is a pretty well accepted fact. Most liberal Democrats have FDR as their hero, the man that engineered the New Deal, Social Security, etc. Although many believe the war ended the depression, and even though high unemployment extended years into his presidency, he is still somehow credited with ending the depression with his New Deal, this impression common among FDR Democrats and followers. This despite his own Secretary of the Treasury, Morgentheau saying all the spending did not work, and evidence arguing otherwise.
Agreed, Obama apparently believes in his brand of a New Deal spending spree, expanding government in new and varied ways.
If FDR was on the left, it would be silly to suggest Hitler was a conservative politician in context of American standard of left vs right, but apparently there are those still maintaining that right here.
