Bernie Sanders Says He Has the Money to Campaign Beyond California Primary

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117. I suggest you read history before speaking for FDR.

FDR notoriously private about his personal opinions and took little interest in any of his Vice Presidents, but famously made a call to a meeting which was being held with Harry S. Truman, bellowing (so Truman could hear it) "Did you sign up that fellow Truman yet?"

Harry S. Truman became President in 1945. You could, in fact, look it up.

Henry Wallace ran for President in 1948 trying to sabotage the Truman campaign while announcing that the Marshall Plan was run by "warlords and money changers" Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism THOMAS W. DEVINE Copyright Date: 2013 Published by: University of North Carolina Press cf page 95

Um...the Marshall Plan.

He was severely rebuked by none other than Eleanor Roosevelt for this rather bizarre stance, as well as his stance on Stalin's 1947 engineering of a coup in 1947 in Czechoslovakia. He also opposed the Berlin Airlift.

Um, Wallace didn't defeat Truman in 1948, nor did he manage to throw the election to the shoo-in Thomas Dewey.

In the 1948 campaign, no less than Eleanor Roosevelt - who was in my view the greatest Democrat of the 20th Century, greater even than her husband - called Henry Wallace to assure him that liberals were definitely not behind him. (Ibid, Devine, page 48.)

(Now I do recognize that the Sanders campaign believes that the South won the Civil War and that therefore North Carolina is not part of the United States, but I tend to regard North Carolina and its voters as legitimate Americans, and have no problem with academic books published by the University of North Carolina Press.)

In any case, for you to announce that FDR would have "voted for Bernie" borders on the absurd, and demonstrates a historical naiveté that corresponds roughly to Wallace's naiveté, as well as that of that increasingly tiresome fool Sanders himself.

Call me a right wing ideologue - I'm unsurprised by the pro-Sanders rhetoric here and elsewhere - but I actually, um, think that the Marshall plan was, um, a good idea, a great idea in fact. Most historians agree I think.

Henry Wallace is basically a forgotten footnote in history, a place he aptly deserves, as does Senator Sanders, another hero of self-righteous types who deign to speak for everyone else, including FDR's ghost, with the confidence that they are righteous.

I'm deeply suspicious of righteousness, because too often it slips into dogma, and sometimes into delusion.

I would characterize the ability to speak for FDR about the 2016 election using at least one of the evocative nouns in the last sentence that begins with a "d."

One thing that is patently clear about FDR, is that he admired and worked closely with very strong women, one of whom happened to be his wife, if not actually - in later years - his lover. I will not speak for him - famously he was an enigma wrapped in a riddle - but I'm quite sure he would have no problem with a strong woman running for President. I could be wrong about that, but, having read extensively on Roosevelt, I think it quite plausible. I don't expect him to endorse anyone in this race however, being dead, although given the desperation of the Sanders campaign, I would not be surprised to hear that a spirit world medium in the campaign has announced such an endorsement.

Have a nice day.