Franklin Delano Roosevelt

In Defense of Brandy

Sun, 04/05/2009 - 7:19am | posted by Matt Chancey

President Obama showcased his ignorance of world political history at the G-20 summit in London recently when he made a crack at his political predecessors’ penchant for back-room brandy sessions:

Well, if there’s just Roosevelt and Churchill sitting in a room with a brandy, that’s an easier negotiation. But that’s not the world we live in, and it shouldn’t be the world that we live in.

I realize that every generation likes to think of itself as unique and facing problems their ancestors did not. It’s the easiest way to excuse failure. No one will blame a world leader for poorly handling a challenge that the world has never seen.

The left wants to pack the Supreme Court?

Tue, 03/02/2010 - 3:48pm | posted by Jason Pye

Some “progressives” are pushing President Barack Obama to pack the Supreme Court in the wake of the Citizens United decision:

The court’s recent controversial decision equating corporations with individuals turned an already overly money-influenced campaign system into a veritable free-for-all of propaganda for corporate and vested interests. It was met with criticism by most legal scholars, praised only by corporate mouthpieces.

Even Barack “Can’t We All Get Along?” Obama criticized the decision in his State of the Union speech. A lot of good that will do. The court has four hard-liners who are against what Obama strives for, and a so-called swing voter, Anthony Kennedy, who votes with them in the big cases.
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Obama can give himself a fighting chance by changing the rules of the game, just as they were changed for other presidents in the 1800s. He should forget bipartisanship and work with congressional Democrats to name three new justices to the court to meet the challenges he faces.

It would be a tumultuous fight, but it would be for a change we could believe in.

If anything this serves as evidence that the left has no idea what they are talking about when it comes to the Citizens United decision. Corporations are entities composed of individuals, who are entitled to speech protections, no different than labor unions. And God knows the left would never do anything to silence their precious labor unions.

“Give a Man a Job”

Mon, 02/02/2009 - 10:48pm | posted by Michael Orion Powell

Of all the New Deal era propaganda videos I’ve seen, this is by far the craziest. Jimmy Durante acts like a drunken buffoon and praises then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. As one of the comments said, this is very timely.