tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post574744521850057679..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: "FDR was a Big Fat Failure"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-46125406180171720642009-01-04T15:37:00.000-05:002009-01-04T15:37:00.000-05:00It's funny... Only today I saw an article in the c...It's funny... <BR/><BR/>Only today I saw an article in the conservative Le Figaro praising the economist John Maynard Keynes, later Lord Keynes, l'Homme de l'Année; The Man of the Year... hailed by right and left... in the year of crisis...<BR/><BR/>http://www.lefigaro.fr/economie/2009/01/03/04001-20090103ARTFIG00156-john-maynard-keynes-l-homme-de-l-annee-.phpGöran Koch-Swahnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00925549945659350649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-16796779239630623512009-01-03T10:20:00.000-05:002009-01-03T10:20:00.000-05:00My aunt, to her dying day, could be thrown into a ...My aunt, to her dying day, could be thrown into a rage by the phrase "FDR was one of the greatest Presidents we've ever had." But she had no problem cashing her SS checks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-91881590890430692942009-01-02T17:28:00.000-05:002009-01-02T17:28:00.000-05:00Funnily enough I just lunched with a friend who de...Funnily enough I just lunched with a friend who described how his father bought a round of drinks for everyone in the club when he heard of FDR's death. "That man in the White House".<BR/><BR/>He saved the US and helped save Western Civilisation.Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06167056789275283692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-60346083837458694412009-01-02T15:10:00.000-05:002009-01-02T15:10:00.000-05:00I was only 2 years old when my American grandmothe...I was only 2 years old when my American grandmother died, but her daughter (my mother) used to tell a story related to FDR. My grandmother was a Republican true and true. During the depression, she'd see the newsreels at the movies and when FDR would show up on them, my grandmother would say loudly in the theatre, "The voice of the hypocrite is heard across the land."JayVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02892272648798100594noreply@blogger.com