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Essay: Letter to the editor – President Obama could echo FDR’s reelection speech

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Letter to the editor – President Obama could echo FDR’s reelection speech

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Chum For Thought:
Throwing Ideas into Dangerous Waters

Letter to the editor – President Obama could echo FDR’s reelection speech

Letter to the Editor
Fort Dodge Messenger
  (Published May 16, 2012)

In 1936, FDR (that would be President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the young whippersnappers) gave a speech in Madison Square Garden, New York, just days before his re-election. It was powerful; defiant; inspiring.

I was startled by how circumstances now reflect that time of monopoly, grave financial risk-taking, pocket government, and the resulting Great Depression. I was astonished at how FDR’s words could just as easily be coming from our current president.

“For twelve years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing Government. The Nation looked to Government but the Government looked away.

“Nine mocking years with the golden calf and