Well, Fala Was Black

by digby

Gordon at Newstalgia has a clip up of FDRs Fala speech that’s well worth listening to:

Take heart. When you think the insanity, the attacks, the lunacy have gotten out of hand, there is always more. There always was. In 1944, at the height of the Presidential election, FDR observed a new low had been reached.

FDR: “These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or on my wife, or on my sons. No. Not content with that. They now include my little dog Fala.”

I didn’t realize that speech was in 1944. Even at the height of WWII, America had tough elections and tough politics and the president wasn’t afraid to meet his adversaries head on. This myth of happy talk, bipartisan non-politics was never true except in the addled minds of Cokie and Sally who just want to be able to arrange the right dinner parties.

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