David Sirota: President Obama Has Become the Bizarro FDR

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Obama is not a flaccid Jimmy Carter, as some of his critics insist. He is instead a Franklin Delano Roosevelt — but a Bizarro FDR. He has mustered the legislative strength of his New Deal predecessor, but he has channeled that strength into propping up the very forces of “organized money” that FDR once challenged.

https://www.noozhawk.com/article/080911_david_sirota_the_bizarro_fdr

[Zolorp]

1. Sirota is a piece of shit

How any Democrat could vote for a man who would hire Sirota as a staffer is beyond me.

[Cha]

2. What's david sirota?

[sheshe2]

4. Flaccid.

[Me.]

6. That Term Usually Only Applies When You're 78

going on 79

[MH1]

8. Corrupt p.o.s. since 1999 (at least)

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/bernie-sanderss-new-speechwriter-has-controversial-past/585547/

[Cha]

15. Precisely!

[Sloumeau]

3. In 2011, David Sirota was a complete embarrasment to the Democratic Party.

I wonder how many years he will be embarrassing us.

[highplainsdem]

14. He still is.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. David Sirota can fuck right off.

[SidDithers]

7. Sirota. He works for Bernie, right?...nt

Sid

[lapucelle]

10. Indeed he does. Sirota and BS have a long history together.

From a Bogus Website to Bernie Sanders's Inner Circle

David Sirota got fired from a Philly campaign 20 years ago for a racially charged “dirty trick” before he first went to work for the progressive from Vermont.

Bernie Sanders first hired his new speechwriter, David Sirota, 20 years ago, shortly after Sirota was fired from a mayoral campaign for his connection to a bogus website that promoted a racially charged quotation, taken out of context, of a black opponent.

In 1999, in Philadelphia, there was a crowded Democratic primary for mayor. Three of the candidates were African American: John White, Dwight Evans, and John Street, all of them friends going back years. But the race got intense early, and David Sirota, then working as the deputy campaign manager for Evans, was part of an effort to cut down White’s support: creating a bogus website, purporting to be the official home page of the White campaign, and using it to promote a racially charged quotation, deliberately taken out of context.

The ruse was soon discovered. Evans, who is now a Democratic member of Congress, fired Sirota. He called Sirota “overzealous” at the time. “I do not want this race to be about race,” Evans said in 1999, calling the site in question an example of “dirty tricks.” The website took a comment that White had made in a broader interview with a Spanish-language weekly, Al Día, and presented the line as if it were an anti-white slogan: “The black and the brown, if we unite, we’re going to control this city.” Local reporters in Philadelphia received emails directing them to the site as though it were part of John White’s campaign.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/bernie-sanderss-new-speechwriter-has-controversial-past/585547/

[Peacetrain]

9. One of the reasons you will never see Bernie Sanders picture on my

DU page during the primaries.. He has selected such pitiful people

[irisblue]

11. And Sirota manages to insult 3 Dem POTUS in a 2011 article. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦

[eilen]

12. He does know that FDR was the 1% , right?

I used to live down the road from his mansion on Rt. 9 in Hyde Park.

[lapucelle]

13. There are many who ignore the wealth, the paucity of social justice

initiatives, the internment of Japanese-Americans, and the casual commonness of lynching.