On May 30, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
raghu wrote:
Is there *any* US President PEN-Lers would consider progressive
overall?
Surely Franklin Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln must qualify?
Millard Fillmore. He had a great auditorium.
There was nothing progressive about FDR, whose enabling role in
Hitler's genocide has been thoroughly whitewashed by the liberals.
Lincoln certainly was on balance progressive. As was John Quincy
Adams (taking into account his long post-presidency career). Harding
had no post-presidency career, but his act in freeing Eugene Victor
Debs and the other leftists imprisoned by the Democratic Party's Hero,
Woodrow Wilson, certainly by itself outweighs "Teapot Dome" etc. and
makes his presidency overall a progressive one.
There were no others (though Grant can at least be credited with good
intentions).
Shane Mage
"L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce
qu'on a apporté."
Bardo Thodol
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