FDR's Speech on Hate... If only our President would speak like this!

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For the audio: http://commoniowan.blogspot.com/2009/02/fdr-i-welcome-their-hatred.html
(It's great to hear FDR's voice!)



For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.

I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I heard this on Hartmann today. Very stirring. Obama needs to listen to it!

[bobbolink]

4. heard it there, also. Had me in tears... thinking how wonderful it would be to hear reassuring word

like this!

:applause: That traitor to his class, FDR, sure knew how to string words together!

[Historic NY]

2. I'm thinking if he puts on a sweater and stokes up the fire............wait

don't do it it will only lead to your malaise moment. Lets do some weekly knock out stuff.

[smokey nj]

3. Thanks for this, bobbolink!

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15. Thanks, smokey! Thom Hartmann played this today, and I wanted to share it.

I actually found it fairly easily.

Isn't it wonderful to hear a recording of FDR?!

How I wish we had voices today like this.... I fear we just lost our last one. :cry:

[virgogal]

5. He gave a great speech on hate,but not the hate for other ethnicites

or races which was rampant in those days.

He was the right man for the times,but it took others to get rid of much of the hatred(fear?)of folks that were different than us.

[pscot]

6. The Democratic party has been runnung away

from FDR's legacy for the last 40 years. Class warfare doncha know. Their corporate paymasters wouldn't like it.

[bobbolink]

8. It's time for the Dems to run back home... a home run...

Very well put, pscot!

[Libertas1776]

7. Boy

do we need an FDR, more now than ever.

[bobbolink]

9. I think it's time to tell OBama that!

Email this speech to him... if we all do, maybe it will get through.

Thanks.

[snake in the grass]

10. saved for later n/t

[madrchsod]

11. he has to go back into campaign mode and....

grow a pair of balls like lbj and get a senate leader like mike mansfield. he`s falling into the same trap that carter fell into.

[bobbolink]

12. You have a point..but I'm not sure "campaign mode" is the right one. That is still wanting to be

liked.

FDR was doing what was RIGHT, and that's what the people loved about him.

He wasn't trying to win that approval.

But the "Fight" part of a campaign.. yup, that is what is needed.

I wish he would listen to those who are trying to get this through to him.

FIghting for the right changes to health care is Win-Win!

[G_j]

13. K&R!

[smokey nj]

14. Kick!

[blindpig]

16. k&r n/t

[bobbolink]

19. Thanks! Good to see you again!

:hi:

[flaminbats]

17. fireside chats and a New Deal

I hope Democrats pass something, but doing nothing is all they need to fear. If Democrats pass universal Medicare, a public option, even an end discrimination because of pre-existing conditions, how does that help Republicans in the mid-term elections?

it doesn't!!! doing nothing or voting with Congressional Republicans will result in Democratic losses in 2010.

[bobbolink]

18. It's so flamingly obvious.... there HAS to be a nefarious reason they're missing it.

HAS to be.

We need FDR back!

[flaminbats]

20. Obama will never be blamed if healthcare doesn't pass..

IMO Congress will receive the blame, just like in 1994.

but almost all Democratic officeholders will receive the credit for decades if it passes, just as they did for Medicare and Social Security.

FDR was an amazing role-model who gave others stuck with polio something to each day of his administration. I still think Obama has the potential to do the same. :thumbsup:

[bobbolink]

21. If Obama would fight the RW tooth and nail, now, his "stock" would rise quickly.

And, I suspect, so would the congressional Dems.

Right now, they are all perceived as being just as corrupt as the RW, and the more they capitulate, the worse that perception will be.

It seems to me that is elemental wisdom, so there is clearly something else at play here. Bribes? Threats? Has anthrax reared it's lovely head again?

FDR survived a serious attempt at a coup, and I wouldn't be surprised that there are all kinds of threats running around the beltway.

As an anthropologist I know said, "Anthropologists know these are the signs of a society in decay."

:scared:

[Gabi Hayes]

22. It's sad, but, even giving him the benefit of whatever doubt arises for motivation, etc:

how much clearer can it be made that our country is completely controlled by corporate forces whose interests are anathema to those of, uh....PEOPLE

anybody here see any possiblity of this situation getting anything but much worse as time passes?

[KoKo]

23. K&R!