I sometimes wonder if Barack Obama is pathological. In a “town hall meeting”, the Anointed One stated that FDR was fiscally conservative. In an interview back in 2009, he stated that FDR was called a socialist for enacting programs like social security.
Here is a short compilation by Politicfact:
"What's happened is that whenever a president tries to bring about significant changes, particularly during times of economic unease, then there is a certain segment of the population that gets very riled up," Obama said. "FDR was called a socialist and a communist."
Indeed, Roosevelt was called a socialist or a communist many times. Most of that criticism came in the 1930s, when he was enacting programs intended to pull the country out of the Great Depression.
• "Roosevelt is a socialist, not a Democrat," declared Republican Rep. Robert Rich of Pennsylvania during a debate on the House floor on July 23, 1935. That remark came after Republicans hinted they were considering a move to impeach Roosevelt, according to the New York Times .
• "The New Deal is now undisguised state socialism, declared Senator Simeon D. Fess (R-Ohio) today as he pictured President Roosevelt as the New Deal's leading socialist," reported the Chicago Daily Tribune on Aug. 7, 1934. "The president's recent statements," Fess said, "remove any doubt of his policy of state socialism, which necessitates increased activities of the government in either ownership or operation of industry, or both."
• "The Russian newspapers during the last election [1932] published the photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt over the caption, 'The first communistic President of the United States,'" said Sen. Thomas Schall, a Republican from Minnesota. "Evidently the Russian newspapers had knowledge concerning the ultimate intent of the President, which had been carefully withheld from the voters in this country. In fact, the voters of the United States were meticulously misled as to such intentions." We found Schall's comments in the book, All But the People: Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Critics, 1933-1939.
FDR was a fiscal conservative? His contemporaries thought otherwise. This must be the kind of crap that is taught at Harvard and Columbia.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/22/barack-obama/obama-roosevelt-socialist-communist/
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Obama went out of his way to choose the supposed "fiscally conservative" parts of FDR's presidency and not the overwhelming liberal parts to answer the guys question. Is this a foreshadowing of Obama's conservative jobs bill aka "trickle down effect"? Everything is showing that Obama is a conservative at heart and he's played us ALL for fools. The only solution is to primary him and get someone who is liberal at heart that will protect entitlements.
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