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To: JohnM who wrote (289113)	1/25/2016 2:48:35 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 540741

FDR had a couple of Gary Cooper moments though and he faced them head on. He had to go against his class, he had to face the right-wing establishment that hated him, a depression and a world war. He was seen as a traitor to his class. The plutocrats like the DuPont's I have read, actually talked about overthrowing him. He was met with huge amounts of hostility and hate and he stared them down. FDR stared the right-wingers down time after time, fearlessly. He was a true warrior. And he had to do all this 21st century welfare architecture almost 100 years ago when the people were not nearly as sophisticated as they are today. I have also heard he wasn't all that smart about policy, but he did reach out to those people who were e.g. in the midst of the depression, he created 8 million new jobs in six months and reached out to John Maynard Keynes for a solution to the depression. To me, that would have been like Obama reaching out to Krugman and Stiglitz for economic advice and Howard Dean to be in charge of the Department of Health, and an AG willing to prosecute the plutocrats criminality and the criminal behavior of the Bushes. One story I've heard over the years is that Henry Hopson, was he the guy? was called into Roosevelt's office the first day ,and FDR told him, I want you to go out and find out what the people need and report back to me, today. And then there were his weekly fireside chats with the people. He led a populist movement. Obama led a populist movement until he was elected and then he just faded away into the established politicians and sort of left the people behind. What I I never did understand though, was the bad advice he received from Gibbs and Axelrod and Rahm about trying to placate the Republicans. Surely they must have known that the Republicans had met and signed a manifesto to make life absolute hell for Obama. Obama gained nothing by continually trying to appease the Republicans. And his advisers never seemed to insist that he quit doing it? Of course we recently found out what Rahm is made out of.