Tag Archive: FDR

Please Don’t Shoot the Messenger

O-FDR

We hear it over and over again from conservatives explaining why Mitt Romney will win.  No president has won re-election with unemployment over 8 percent, they tell us, hoping the streak will continue this time around. There’s just one problem.  It’s not true. Franklin Roosevelt won re-election with unemployment not only over 8 percent, he…

Obama to Blue-Collar America: Adios!

Blue Collars

When I was a kid growing up in the Bronx in the 1950s I knew a lot more about the Yankees than I did about politics.  In fact, I didn’t know anything about politics, except for one thing:  I knew we were Democrats. My father was a blue-collar worker and like all “working class” men he voted…