crooksandliars.com - 12/28/2008
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Oh, to live in that happy place where Fox News resides: where the sun shone out of Ronald Reagan's behind, and FDR, not Hitler, was the real villain of his time... After Wise Men Mort Kondracke and Fred Barnes pull their chin hairs and speak in somber tones about how Obama's economic stimulus ...
rasmussenreports.com - 12/28/2008
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It’s a showdown between the two most influential
presidents of the 20th Century. Franklin D. Roosevelt versus...
Ronald W. Reagan. Forty-five percent (45%) of U.S. voters say FDR, the Democratic father of the big government New Deal who led the country ...
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FDR vs. Reagan: May The Best President Win
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Hullabaloo —
... But that's no longer a given --- or perhaps it is, but the rise of conservative media makes the old FDR hating seem more mainstream then it did back when I was a kid. We are suddenly being bombarded with the convenient revisionism of crackpots like Amity Schlaes and the confident gibberish of Fred Barnes, who Susie at C & L catches blithly passing on the popular contrarian fiction that FDR actually made the depression worse. The stuff about how Ronald Reagan saved the world by destroying the air traffic controller's union is especially rich. (The antidote to ...
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