Antidote to GOP lies: Revisiting the ideals of Roosevelt

'Antidote to GOP lies: Revisiting the ideals of Roosevelt'
By Randolph T. Holhut

Posted on Thursday, September 09 @ 10:03:26 EDT
Smirking Chimp

DUMMERSTON, Vt. - My antidote to the lies spewed out by Republicans at their convention last week was the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
I came across "Nothing To Fear," a 1946 collection of 62 of FDR's most important presidential speeches, a few months ago. After a week of hearing politician after politician shamelessly and cynically exploit fear as a campaign message, rereading Roosevelt's words became imperitive.
Three generations have gone by and FDR's most famous words - "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" - still ring true. His steadiness in the most difficult and turbulent time in American history stands as the greatest example of presidential leadership in the 20th century. If George W. Bush possessed even a fraction of FDR's intelligence, integrity and courage, this nation wouldn't be in the mess it's in now.
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