Yes: I am ready for new Democartic Party leadership and with good reason!

[OldRedneck]

44. WTF are you smoking?

Whatever it is you are smoking, it's some S-T-R-O-N-G- shit. How about putting me in touch with your supplier?

I was born in 1944 in poverty-riddled, KKK-ruled Southwest Mississippi. My Granddaddy was an FDR Democrat. He ran a small grocery store in Mississippi and a big country general store and cotton gin in Louisiana. I worked in his store; when I was 12 years old, he let me start working in the cotton gin where I was the only white person. Granddad taught me to drive at age 12 so I could deliver groceries in his old 1948 DeSoto -- 6 cylinders, 3-speed.

Granddad had two framed pictures on the wall in the cotton-buying office at the gin: Jesus and FDR. When he prayed, I never knew if he was praying to Jesus or FDR.

FDR save the rural South with the Rural Electrification Administration and the National Relief Act. The REA put electricity down the road where Granddad lived, enabling him to electrify his dairy barn, buy a refrigerator and an electric cream separator -- he tripled the size of his herd and hired two men to work at the dairy. The NRA allowed him to borrow $500 with which he opened his store in Mississippi, hiring two more people.

Granddad HATED the Klan. As a result, the occasional shot was fired through the front window of his home; a shed behind the gin was dynamited; an occasional fire was set at the gin. He carried a pistol and slept with a shotgun. A young black man who worked for Granddad tried to register to vote. He was dragged from his house late one night by the Klan, lynched, and burned. Everyone in the county knew who did it but no one was ever arrested. About six months later, the two men who everyone knew lynched Willie were found shot to death, lying in a creek on some property Granddad owned a few miles from the gin. Years later, Granddad told me: "They were Klan trash."

So -- what does this story mean?

1. NOT ONE DEMOCRAT TODAY IS WILLING TO STAND UP TO THE REPUBLICANS THE WAY FDR DID. In his second inaugural address, FDR said of the Republicans:

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.

I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master."

2. Listen to his speech here:

Now tell me: Is there ONE -- just ONE -- Democrat since FDR who has had the balls to say anything like this about Republicans? Shit, Bill Clinton repealed Glass-Steagall, one of the most important pieces of New Deal legislation, thereby leading DIRECTLY to the 2008 crash.

Obama had control of the House and the Senate for two years. He could have instituted national health insurance. But, oh, no . . . that was too much of a reach.


3. We don't have any "knowledgeable, smart Democratic leaders." We have a gaggle of career politicians who are sucking at the money tit, just like their Republican twins. And we certainly don't have any Democratic leaders with the vision and the courage of an FDR.