FDR: MY HERO

I have been watching a PBS documentary, "FDR: American Experience," and it is wonderful. One of the great things that FDR did was listen to and empathize with the common man.

He had crippling polio, from the time he was 39 years old. He rigged up a car so he could drive without using his feet, and he drove all over the rural south and stopped and talked to ordinary people. He cared about them and their troubles, and he wanted political power so he could help them, even though he came from great wealth.

The Tea Party types should watch this. Fox News should show it over and over. It would show the right wingers a real leader. What a contrast to Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin and Rick Perry, who want poor people to starve and who favor policies that only benefit the rich.

Of course, there is just one problem: You have to have both a brain and a soul to appreciate it. I am not sure they have either one.

-- Roger

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