Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland
"Roosevelt mastered the art of oratory. No one "could read his lips."
What would be appropriate to honor him?
Actually, there are quite a few possibilities. Roosevelt had many accomplishments to his name. He was a modest man. He always lived within his multi-millionaire means. He could not do the same for his country, which now thanks him for its staggering debt.
A Roosevelt dime standing side by side a contemporary dollar would be a tribute to his inflationary policies.
We could show "Uncle Joe" benignly patting FDR on the head: "My favorite useful idiot."
Or we could portray the Founding Fathers, holding the broken tablet of the Constitution, intoning: "Traitor!"
Or we could show Justice Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter sprinkling Zionist lilies at Warm Springs: "Like Unto Moses."
"My Favorite Judge" pushing FDR into the Imperial Presidency would be a fitting quid pro quo for the New Deal.
A Pearl Harbor graveyard praying for the presidential soul, perhaps?
Eleanor Roosevelt stood by her man. "Love Letters to Madrid" endorsed by Hillary Clinton would be so touching.
Any tribute to Roosevelt would require the proper benediction. "Ave Maria" sung by Alger Hiss could not miss.
FDR loved "Pomp and Circumstance." Who could resist the "Stars and Stripes Forever" on the banks of the Crimea?
FDR was our captain. His "White House was a lighthouse" to every radical, Red and subversive. He is with us always. Lenin is dead and buried. FDR is the revolutionary who will never die.
We could even show a grimly satisfied Adolf Hitler beholding the flood tide of the Red Army: "Don't blame me."
(Reprinted with permission from Granata Publications)
Thought for the Day:
"It will take another generation or two, but the old racist games are over -- and the future is light brown."
( Gwynne Dyer, a Canadian journalist, written from London, 9 May 1997 )