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Originally Posted by sspadowsky
Yeah, the guy who helped to pull the country out of the Depression was a whole lot worse than Bush, who has completely trampled the constitution, eliminated public access to information, and sought to ban gay marriage via the constitution. Let us not also forget the whole space fiasco, that election year posturing that we can't afford to pay for anyway. We're talking about someone who places all of the above things higher than job creation and economic recovery.
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FDR trampled the constitution far more than Bush has. Why do you think he tried to pack-in justices? Two of his acts were declared unconstitutional because of the interstate commerce clause. Look it up.
FDR was extremely fond of abrogating the civil rights of workers. Have you even
looked at the NLRA before the Taft-Harley Amendment?
You talk about "job creation," but FDR was very anti-job creation in his legislature. If he wanted more jobs, he would have let wages fall faster than prices. Whether or not he actually knew what he was doing is irrelevant - supposedly Bush thought that Iraq had WMD (and I still think they did).
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Surely, FDR is worse than the guy who praises the military he so eagerly puts in harm's way, and then cuts their endangerment pay and benefits. And we all know he's worse than the guy who lied outright to the American people, and to the UN, about Hussein and his WMDs, and all that other crap that we've already been over 100 times.
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You can't accuse Bush of lying outright to anyone. The fact is that he probably had faulty intelligence. Daddy Bush certainly lied with imputiny, but there is no evidence that his son has done the same thing. Once you get into the Bush family's line and personal reasons for war, it's all pure speculation.
Oh, yeah - let's not forget that FDR had no problems with sending our troops into Europe to die. You could say that Japan attacked us, but - suprise! - if that were FDR's only motive, we would have attacked Japan. Let's face it; FDR wanted to liberate those people. Kinda like Bush in Iraq, no? Or do you oppose our involvement in WW2? If security were our only concern, we should have just waited for our allies to exhaust the Germans and blitzkrieg their ass.