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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (91416)	3/24/2007 11:22:08 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Hmm, one of my parents was raised during the depression, one of 12 children of a sharecropping family, definitely poor ... but starving? Nah. All of my family were poor then on both sides but no communists in my family. Maybe your ju high school civics teacher was a communist sympathizer. Fact is Pete Seeger wrote a propaganda song against the US getting into the war while the USSR and Nazi Germany were allied, then wrote a propaganda song calling for war immediately after Germany attacked the USSR. It isn't hard to know why: Seeger tells Wilkinson that when he was at Harvard during the late 1930s he was trying to "stop Hitler" and he became disgusted with a professor who counselled appeasement. Maybe so. But after the Hitler-Stalin pact, he and his group the Almanac Singers put out an album titled Songs of John Doe that called Franklin D Roosevelt a warmongering lackey of JP Morgan. Franklin D, listen to me, You ain't a-gonna send me 'cross the sea. You may say it's for defense That kinda talk ain't got no sense. Then within months Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. The album was pulled from the market and reportedly destroyed. The Almanac Singers quickly produced a new album, Dear Mr President, that took a different view of FDR and the war: Now, Mr President You're commander-in-chief of our armed forces The ships and the planes and the tanks and the horses I guess you know best just where I can fight ... So what I want is you to give me a gun So we can hurry up and get the job done! volokh.com