11 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
FDR Defends His Dog
These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don’t resent attacks, and my family doesn’t resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back ... 1 
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notesSomething to consider in the history of heated political rhetoric is this passage by FDR in 1944, which invokes some of the heated silliness we tend to think only applies to our modern political culture.
01 JAN 2010 by ideonexus
Rachel Maddow on Obama's First Year
Turns out that a lot of the things that have happened in the lest than two years of this administration are the biggest or first or most important in generations. On the occasion of the Wall Street Reform announcement today, Tagan Godard at CQ politics wrote "Not since FDR has a president done so much to transform this country."
Even before today's historic Wall Street Reform agreement, President Obama of course did what politicians have been trying to do for more than 60 years, he passed He... 1 notes
notesAn inspiring summary of everything Obama has accomplished less than halfway through his first term.
