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  • Posted By: okie3 @ 03/27/2008 9:31:42 AM

    You neocons are in the darkest dungeons of denial if you think FDR and his reforms didn't save the US from going totally in the dumper, which is where we are headed thanks to 'Dubya' and his merry gang of Fascists.

  • Posted By: notoriousLRP @ 03/26/2008 8:28:44 PM

    It's naive to think that Rooselvelt's policies had more to do with saving America from the depression than did WWII.

  • Posted By: notoriousLRP @ 03/26/2008 8:27:43 PM

    It's naive to think that Roosevelt had more to do with getting America out of the depression than did WWII.

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