FDR's 'I welcome their hatred' speech (enemies, Obama, financial, money)
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For nearly four years you have had an
Administration which instead of twirling its
thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep
our sleeves rolled up.
We had to struggle with the old enemies of
peace—business and financial monopoly,
speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism,
sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of
the United States as a mere appendage to their
own affairs. We know now that Government by
organized money is just as dangerous as
Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces
been so united against one candidate as they
stand today. They are unanimous in their hate
for me—and I welcome their hatred.
I should like to have it said of my first
Administration that in it the forces of selfishness
and of lust for power met their match. I should
like to have it said of my second Administration
that in it these forces met their master.
--Excerpt from Franklin Roosevelt's address
announcing the second New Deal
October 31, 1936
Where's a guy like FDR when you need him? I
wish we had a non-nonsense president who
could kick ass and take names. The
man doesn't screw around. He was nobody's
sock puppet....unlike Obama and Bush. He made
the corrupt den of snakes that is DC and Wall
Street shiver in their boots like he made the
Nazis shiver in theirs.
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