Quote:Go ahead and link the post where I endorsed interning people as good.

 

If your point is to say that I'm not damning enough of one of the greatest presidents the nation has ever had over a decision made during the worst war the world ever saw, then your point is misguided. I don't need to excuse the internment, I only have to believe that the rest of his presidency was far greater.

 

As Rollerjag stated, if you want to hold presidents to modern standards then most of them would come up short, but we judge them for the time they were in. In FDR's time the internment was seen as necessary.

 

Now we have Bush's and Obama's surveillance state to keep everyone in a virtual prison all the time instead.

 

You still don't get it.  This isn't holding anyone to modern standards.  What he did -- even by his own time period's standard was terrible.  You keep throwing out there that "Well, we didn't treat them as badly as the Germans treated the Jews!"  as if that somehow makes it better.  They were denied their civil rights.  It doesn't matter that Hitler was worse.  Guess what?  No matter how much you think otherwise, Kim Jong Un is worse than George W. Bush.  And after the devastating attacks on 9/11, Bush reacted similar to FDR (Which you even admitted yourself, but decide to forgive FDR for because of what was going on, but not Bush because he's a conservative.)


His attempt to pack the bench of the supreme court was him trying to get around the checks and balances we have set up in this country.


The man is revered so well, but to quote The Dark Knight "You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain."  I think had FDR lasted a lot longer, he would not be as revered as he is today.

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