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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-24-04 11:24 AM Original message |
Isn't it kinda late for "Fireside Chats"? |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-24-04 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
1. What Bush does is the OPPOSITE of fireside chats. |
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truthbetold (525 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-24-04 11:50 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Good point AP. |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 08:35 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. was I right or wrong? |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 08:40 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Of course the other big difference |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 08:47 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. FDR felt that you made democracy strong by creating a wealthy middle class |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 08:46 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Republicans freaked people out over Hitler? |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 08:50 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Newsreals. Radio. Corporate media LOVED Hitler. He gave those crazy |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 09:23 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Again, any SOURCES? |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 09:29 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Yeah. A media studies professor I heard talk about this about a year and |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 09:43 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. You know I have my masters in history |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:04 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Wall St plotted a military coup against FDR. Smedley Butler was asked ... |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:08 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I guess where I would disagree with you |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:13 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. That's how it is today. But it is the case that Republicans at the top of |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:23 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. I guess it's hard to put oneself back in that time |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:35 AM Response to Reply #30 |
32. From the 1890s to 1930s Republicans knew their masters: business. |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:38 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. So is this a fair statement? |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 11:01 AM Response to Reply #33 |
34. If you think what we have today is fascism (and I do), then you look |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:20 AM Response to Reply #22 |
29. I know that. That's not the part I'm questioning. |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:29 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. I'm not really sure where we're disagreeing. |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 08:53 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. "Nothing to fear..." was an anecdote to domestic fascism. |
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bobthedrummer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 11:26 AM Response to Reply #6 |
35. As an American citizen and sole surviving son of a US Marine that fought |
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Village Idiot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-24-04 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
2. Conflagration, anyone? |
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mopaul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
8. you are a humanitarian do-gooder insurgent |
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Ironpost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
10. 'Oh we're having fireside chats |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 08:55 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Yeah. While Rome's burning, Bush talks to us like we're retarded. |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
15. Pleasant surprise when one of mine rises from the ashes. |
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mopaul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 09:43 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. mortimer |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 09:52 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Damn! It IS Mortimer. |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 09:50 AM Response to Reply #15 |
20. Free Campaign time on TV! |
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elperromagico (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
16. The thing is, FDR didn't do that many Fireside Chats. |
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mopaul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 09:44 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. bush's speeches will be shown to students in speech class |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:07 AM Response to Reply #16 |
23. His first was in 33, but he really poured it on after '39, I beleive. |
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elperromagico (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:09 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. He had delivered 14 by 1939. n/t |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:17 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. So, 13 in first 6 years, 20 in last 6 years. |
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elperromagico (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:08 PM Response to Reply #27 |
37. No, more like 17 in the last 6 years. |
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immoderate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
28. I had the Bush speech on... |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
36. Remember, GDub said he's running the WH like a business. |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:16 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. The Stepford Prez does it again. 6 speeches gonna save his ass? |
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