[FDRfollower]

Born January 30 1882. Just for interest, I did a google news search to see what coverage 'ol FDR got, considering his importance.

http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_34087.shtml Bangladeshi newspaper on Russian president Putins speech against the neo-con war imperialist war drive using FDR as an example.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/02/12/010.html Russian newspaper on Putins FDR mention.

http://origin.insidebayarea.com/travel/ci_5206398 AP story on the FDR museum.

http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/02/09/news/latest_news/532c891e570ccb928625727d0018fc13.txt Sioux City paper on Putins speech.

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/02/09/putinroosvelt.shtml Russian paper on Putins fdr speech.

http://www.americanheritage.com/events/articles/web/20070123-franklin-roosevelt-hyde-park-new-deal-brain-trust-al-smith.shtml Story on FDR.

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/02/13/unilateral_force_has_nothing_to_do_with Blog on Putins FDR speech.

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070130/NEWS01/70129051/1006 Poughkeepsie paper on FDR.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070208/60427066.html Russian paper on FDR.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17788235&BRD=1704&PAG=461&dept_id=71705&rfi=6 HydeParkTownsman on FDR event

http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/FDR_bdy-31Jan07.html local paper on FDR event.

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070131/NEWS01/70131015 Poughkeepsie paper on FDR event.

Isn't that sad. Besides local newspapers, FDR's birth was in general, blacked out.

[Lionhearted]

Yes it is sad. I guess that's the (snicker) liberal media for ya.

[MAGI]

Agreed Lionhearted, sad indeed!

Sad also that these last four Presidents...starting with Reagan have about brought us full circle prior to Roosevelts election. The time of extreme wealth and all the glitz it brings to the few priviliged rich, and poverty and hopelessness for so many in our beloved country.

Sad to think Putin spells out the difference of the regime in power in our country now, versus what FDR did for "We The People" in our Grand Nation, and the rest of the world........

This is an excerpt from one of the urls FDRfollower submitted:

http://www.americanheritage.com/events/articles/web/20070123-franklin-roosevelt-hyde-park-new-deal-brain-trust-al-smith.shtml


Roosevelt’s political enemies rightly remembered him as a not terribly serious young man who had hungered for public office without having many convictions. But they vastly underestimated his personal growth and maturation in the years after his initial paralysis. Assembling a “Brain Trust” (originally “Brains Trust”) of Ivy League economists and political scientists, he held weekly meetings in the drawing room of the governor’s mansion, meetings that sometimes lasted well past midnight, when his tired advisors would hurry to catch the last train back to New York City. Schooling himself in political economy and government, he began developing a new, if somewhat undisciplined, sense of the role of the state in ordinary people’s lives.

Had they been paying closer attention, Roosevelt’s Democratic party rivals—who now included his former political sponsor, Al Smith—would have heard tones of serious resolve and innovation. “What is the state?” he asked in his 1931 message to the New York legislature, demanding increased funds for unemployment relief. “It is the duly constituted representative of an organized society of human beings—created by them for their mutual protection and well being. The state or the government is but the machinery through which such mutual aid and protection is achieved. . . . Our government is not the master but the creature of the people. The duty of the state towards the citizens is the duty of the servant to its master.”

In the context of the time, an era in which governments assumed little responsibility for the general welfare, and in which the courts treated corporations as “individuals,” thereby valuing freedom of contract above freedom to collectively bargain, this was a radical statement.

Roosevelt won the 1932 election, of course, and four years later Americans enjoyed a host of protections that had previously fallen outside the range of government action: federal old-age pensions and assistance for poor families, mortgage and bank-deposit insurance, unemployment insurance, disability payments, relief work, publicly financed electricity, strong regulation of the banking sector, and a vast system of public works.

Though Roosevelt’s policies bobbed and weaved throughout his 12 years as President—a process that made some of his advisers wonder whether the New Deal could even be said to exist as a cohesive program—he consistently moved toward a more expansive vision of state obligation and civic entitlement. By 1944 he was arguing that “individual freedom cannot exist without economic security” and calling for a “second Bill of Rights” to include “the right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries, or shops or farms or mines of the nation; the right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation. . . . The right of every family to a decent home; the right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health; the right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, and sickness, and accident and unemployment; and finally, the right to a good education.”

Seventy-five years since he first declared he would run for President, many of Roosevelt’s most cherished goals remain partially unmet. But they continue to provide liberals with a vision, and a startlingly simple idea of what government should mean for the citizenry.

Hey Newbie, many of us have awakened, and Grassroots (We The People) in Everytown, U.S.A. is on the rise. Come join us in our revolution and help take OUR Country back!

[Jane of Arc]

http://www.hbo.com/films/warmsprings/img/homepage/252x190_fdr_portrait_chair.jpgVery sad indeed. But progressives everywhere love you, Mr. President, and you will live on through us. We will never forget you! Happy Birthday FDR! :sunny:

[NeoCon Newbie]

http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/images/washington.jpgHappy Birth Birthday on Feb 22nd Its a shame the liberals recognize FDR over Washington the founder of this great a nation without Wasington there never would of been an FDR.

[Lionhearted]

http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/images/washington.jpgHappy Birth Birthday on Feb 22nd Its a shame the liberals recognize FDR over Washington the founder of this great a nation without Wasington there never would of been an FDR.

Washington founded our nation? All by himself!?!? Well ain't that the shizznit! I suppose there is something lacking in my upbringing, or edjukayshun, or diet 'cause I fer one had no idear who that dude on the one dollar bill and quarter wuz. Thanx fer the histery lessin dude.

I'm not even going to attempt to explain the reason for the posting of this topic, except to say it is about honoring Roosevelt not dis-honoring Washington. Now please, stay away from sharp objects.