The Second Mrs. Roosevelt

[Moonglow]

FDR was a racist extraordinaire. The equivalent of what he did to Japanese Americans would be if Obama interned all Muslims and confiscate their belongings.

FDR was a communist sympathizer and a suck up to "Uncle Joe" Stalin, who killed millions of innocent political prisoners and starved millions of Ukranians.

FDR was an appeaser of the same magnitude as the much reviled Neville Chamberlain. The only difference was that Chamberlain appeased the home crowd of peaceniks of the day, while FDR bent over backwards to appease the monster that any normal person would have seen as the REAL enemy.

FDR created 45 years of Cold War by sucking up to Stalin and being a cripple mentally as well as physically.

Seems even Birch society members and the republican Fred Koch loved the USSR and Stalin...

This extended litigation effectively put Winkler-Koch out of business in the U.S. for several years. Koch turned his focus to foreign markets, including the Soviet Union, where Winkler-Koch built 15 cracking units between 1929 and 1932. The company also built installations in countries throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.[1] In the early 1930s, Winkler-Koch hosted Soviet technicians for training

Fred C. Koch - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

And Daddy Koch also was the main fellow pushing FDR for recognition of the USSR and Stalin as it's leader..

 

[Moonglow]

"A 2009 provision of the Affordable Care Act to pay doctors for end-of-life counseling never found its way into the law. Partial credit goes to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and a simple pair of words, “death panels.”

Out right falsehood. Bachmann coined the phrase "death panels." Palin had nothing to do with modifying the bill's contents.

The only "death panels" are conducted by private health insurance bean counters.​

To JakeStarkey: Do the words “Partial credit . . .” mean anything to you?

Before you embarrass yourself again let me enlighten you. The term death panel is associated with Sarah for two reasons:

1. When Sarah used the phrase she was universally attacked by liberals as though she made it up. Naturally, not a word from liberals when she was proved correct.

2. Sarah’s fame was and is national. Attacking someone of lesser fame would not have been as effective. Happily, the whole thing backfired on liberals precisely because Sarah is so well-known.

Here’s a bit of friendly advice for Sarah-haters. When you set out to defame a queen get your facts straight. If you do not have facts remain silent.

Try educating yourself upon the subject before you open your mouth to prove what you don't know...

 

[JakeStarkey]

The far right during the war like now love Russia and its strong men.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Folks like the Klan and the SS, and other arch conservatives, are the ones who preach for the state elimination of the insane, the aged, the infirm, the diseased, the racially and ethnically and religiously despised.

 

[Flanders]

arch conservatives, are the ones who preach for the state elimination of the insane, the aged, the infirm, the diseased, the racially and ethnically and religiously despised.

To JakeStarkey: Yeah right you halfwit. And arch-conservatives believe that limited government is the best way to accomplish it.

 

[Ava]

In the 4th episode, Roosevelts/ An Intimate History, is covering his polio. He was 39.
I find the series fascinating.

I, too, am enjoying the series and am on the 5th episode. I very much admire the way FDR handled his new affliction and turned it into a positive one for many people for many years. The way he turned an old run down resort into a thriving one when many newly afflicted people with polio, went for treatment and hope. He interacted with them and learned during those years, I think, to be the compassionate man he became, despite his negatives. He had not been a popular boy or young man in college but turned his attitude around, when crippled literally, with a very humbling disease. He didn't stay down.

 

[JakeStarkey]

arch conservatives, are the ones who preach for the state elimination of the insane, the aged, the infirm, the diseased, the racially and ethnically and religiously despised.

To JakeStarkey: Yeah right you halfwit. And arch-conservatives believe that limited government is the best way to accomplish it.

conservatives can be big government progressives, buddy

the klan in Texas used the state lege to make the Democratic primary all white

the state leges passed discrimination laws against minorities, abortion, and gays

Congress passed DOMA

Big government progressive Republican conservatives wanted an amendment to outlaw marriage equality

and on and so forth

conservatism does not always mean small government

 

[JakeStarkey]

In the 4th episode, Roosevelts/ An Intimate History, is covering his polio. He was 39.
I find the series fascinating.

I, too, am enjoying the series and am on the 5th episode. I very much admire the way FDR handled his new affliction and turned it into a positive one for many people for many years. The way he turned an old run down resort into a thriving one when many newly afflicted people with polio, went for treatment and hope. He interacted with them and learned during those years, I think, to be the compassionate man he became, despite his negatives. He had not been a popular boy or young man in college but turned his attitude around, when crippled literally, with a very humbling disease. He didn't stay down.

I wonder how much his search for popularity was a reaction to his domineering mother. I read somewhere, when he cheated on Eleanor during WWI, his mom said there would be no divorce or FDR would be cut out of the money. Many years later, as president, FDR picked up with the woman again, and he died in her arms. His daughter who knew about the affair for sometime was the one who had to tell Eleanor. I don't know if it damaged their relationship after that. People are complicated.

 

[JakeStarkey]

arch conservatives, are the ones who preach for the state elimination of the insane, the aged, the infirm, the diseased, the racially and ethnically and religiously despised.

To JakeStarkey: Yeah right you halfwit. And arch-conservatives believe that limited government is the best way to accomplish it.

conservatives can be big government progressives, buddy

the klan in Texas used the state lege to make the Democratic primary all white

the state leges passed discrimination laws against minorities, abortion, and gays

Congress passed DOMA

Big government progressive Republican conservatives wanted an amendment to outlaw marriage equality

and on and so forth

conservatism does not always mean small government

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[Flanders]

I forgot that the first Mrs. Roosevelt was more destructive than the second Mrs. Roosevelt. After being reminded in a piece by Bernie Reeves I am doubly pleased with myself for not watching the show.

Reeves does not reference Eleanor’s role in betraying the country to the United Nations. For those who do not remember. Eleanor Roosevelt was the face of the United Nations in 1945 and for years after. Much like Jackie Kennedy after JFK was assassinated nobody dared refuse the widow Roosevelt anything she wanted. No matter. There is enough without it:

Juxtaposing Teddy’s and Franklin’s lives left viewers unaware that an opening was being craftily concocted to insert another Roosevelt -- Eleanor, FDR’s wife. By the end of the series, she had been elevated to Mt. Rushmore heights for apparently political purposes. In Episode 5, the fix is in. The socialist Eleanor never relents in her hectoring to persuade her husband to follow the usual litany of utopian causes and programs. To his credit, FDR defied her as best he could under withering fire from his virago of a wife.

After that, it’s the Eleanor’s show and her efforts for women’s rights, minority rights, guaranteed annual wages, union rights, and friendship with the Soviet Union. Burns and writer Ward glossed over the 1940 Democratic national convention by implying it was FDR, not Eleanor, who told the delegates he would step down as a candidate if Henry Wallace was turned down as his running mate. Wallace was eventually tapped as VP and sent after the election on peacekeeping missions to the USSR and China. Upon his return, he penned a subversive piece for the New York Times titled “The Dangers of American Fascism," in which he condemned the rising tide of anti-Soviet propaganda, called for One World government in order to eliminate nationalism and, consequently, imperialism.

In 1944, as FDR was nominated for an historical fourth term, the evidence against Wallace’s socialist beliefs (not to mention his weird relationship with a Theosophist guru) had become so overwhelming that he was dropped like a hot potato, with Harry Truman selected in his place. Here was a good time for Burns and Ward to state how fortunate America had been historically to nominate or elect the right person at the right time, including his subjects TR and FDR. Had this not been the case, an international socialist would have become president of the United States when FDR died four months after taking office in 1945. It is believed by historians Wallace would not have dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, and certainly he would have allowed the Soviet Union free rein over the postwar world, even beyond what was handed to Stalin at Yalta. And Eleanor would have achieved her goal of placing a pro-Soviet communist sympathizer in the Oval Office.

The omission of the details of the Wallace issue exemplified the goal of the Roosevelt series to brainwash rather than inform. The derring-do of Teddy and the ferocious bravery of FDR are washed away in an attempt to deify Eleanor and praise her far Leftist political views.

September 25, 2014
Ken Burns Makes Room on Rushmore for Eleanor Roosevelt
By Bernie Reeves

Articles Ken Burns Makes Room on Rushmore for Eleanor Roosevelt​

NOTE: America now has an international Socialist president Eleanor would be proud of.

In all fairness, the American people did not hate Eleanor even though they despised everything she stood for. America’s general respect for Eleanor as a person is much different than the way most Americans view leading Democrat women like Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, et al. I’m not certain if Americans were different back then, or if today’s leading Democrat women do not deserve respect.