Posted 5:49 PM by Gene

PAPER OF RE-CORD regulars, reading this story of FDR's home in Hyde Park, must be sighing, if only we had a LIBERAL president again. Meantime con-SER-va-tives furrow their brows and agitate over his perfidy. Both sides miss the point. First off, by modern standards, FDR wasn't a liberal. Second, most of his perfidy resulted from the smoothly running FREE EN-TER-PRISE system before him and historical heroes like Hitler and Stalin. Only a fool -- and there are too many in politics nowadays -- would not admit, whatever his morals or politics, FDR was a great president, yet another real man who makes Dubya look like the less-than-shrimp he is.



One thing that recommends FDR to us is his simple tastes, as evidenced in his study. This is a nice, quiet, cozy, contemplative place to work. If the man had delusions of grandeur they weren't in his rooms.