America thanks you Monica Lewinsky!

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75. Well, Manny, you sound like someone defending Bill Clinton despite the bad things he may have done.

How about the the passenger ship St. Louis - a boat of Jews fleeing from the Nazis into the United States. When the ship approached the coast of Florida with nearly a thousand German Jews fleeing Hitler, Roosevelt wouldn't to telegrams from passengers requesting asylum, and the State Department refused entry to the ship. Forced to return to Antwerp, many of the passengers eventually died in concentration camps.

Did FDR refuse to sign anti-lynching laws and say doing so might cause him to lose re-election? Yes he did.

The thing is, Manny, you're not an FDR Democrat. Not really. You're more of a Wallace or Robert La Follette progressive. You just think you're an FDR Dem. Roosevelt was the 1% and did things he probably would not have done during a normal economy.

Progressives of the day HATED Roosevelt for the same reasons you despise the Clintons. Progressive leaders believed he was in bed with the banks as well.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/08/11/891631/-UPDATED-Liberal-Criticism-of-Franklin-Roosevelt-and-The-New-Deal