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When There Is No Vision...
AMERICAN DIGEST —
... "Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses.Saturday, March 4, 1933 ...
Democrats, Then and Now
Slublog —
President Franklin D. Roosevelt: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
President Barack H. Obama: 'Do what I want, or the economy will melt, and you'll all die poor and alone.'
Irresponsible fear-mongering is not all that presidential. Now that I think about it, weren't we promised a calm, cool, post-partisan president?
Guess that 'hope over fear' stuff was "just words."
Democrats, Then and Now
Ace of Spades HQ —
Democrats, Then and Now President Franklin D. Roosevelt: " The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. " President Barack H. Obama: ...
Today in The Nation: Anger-Fueled Bailout
The Nation: Top Stories —
... to escape taxes; that other financiers just like him, who had been hero-worshiped for a decade or more as financial messiahs, had regularly engaged in insider-trading schemes that made them wealthy and fleeced legions of unknowing investors. The Pecora Committee was not the only scourge of the old financial elite. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as publicly mild-mannered as and perhaps even more amiable and charming than President Obama, began excoriating them from the moment of his first inaugural address . He condemned them in no uncertain terms for misusing "other people's ...
