LizzieMaine
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Nothing says "junior high school math teacher" like an AMC Pacer.
Nothing says '70s Car like a Pacer.
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For twelve years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing Government. The Nation looked to Government but the Government looked away . . . Powerful influences strive today to restore that kind of government with its doctrine that that Government is best which is most indifferent . . .
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.
Nothing says '70s Car like a Pacer.
Speaking of period myths, how about the myth that everyone was fully behind the war effort in WW2? People forget there was a huge isolationist movement before the war and plenty of people were against the war even after Pearl Harbor. Congress's voting to declare war was almost unanimous, but not quite.
Or how about people think everyone loved FDR? The man was reviled in his time by a great many people.
I guess that in the future, people will say that everyone was behind President Obama even though anyone around right now would know that isn't indeed the case at all (regardless how you might personally feel about him either way).
History always glosses over stuff, I guess. I got tired of trying to explain to people that the American Civil War was not fully about slavery, because it's an easy label to put on that time period.
Hi Lizzie
Where is your quote from? Is that Franklin? I think History has shown that his policies didn't really do much to stop the Depression, but he's still worshiped by many of the 80 year-olds back home in Illinois. I looked up Liberty Leaguers and found that they were Conservative Democrats. I wouldn't have thought that.
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Never driven one, or even been in or near one in person, but... I had a Matchbox model of one back in the Seventies that I remember I loved. Probably still in my folks' attic. I didn't know that's what it was at the time, of course: I think the first time I saw a "real" one was in Wayne's World.
I had a co-worker once who owned a Yugo. It was stolen one night, and caught fire and burned to a shell before the thief could get it a hundred yards from the house.
Plausible... Or maybe other recent presidents (ahem) may be reappraised if a historical reappraisal of recent conflicts becomes the orthodoxy...who knows.
I had a co-worker once who owned a Yugo. It was stolen one night, and caught fire and burned to a shell before the thief could get it a hundred yards from the house.
the main Democrat involved was former New York governor Al Smith, who had an intense personal dislike for FDR.
What many people don't know is that the Yugo was based on Fiat technology manufactured under liscence. How do you say fix it again Tony in Serb?
фик поново, Тони
fik ponovo, Toni
The Fiat was also the basis for the Soviet/Russian Lada
[video=youtube;wZ4NRbJQz3o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ4NRbJQz3o[/video]
Al Smith was at one time about as left leaning as FDR. It wasn't just personalities that made him change his mind on the course of the New Deal.
The time was that the confidence of the people of the US was so shaken so many times that they had to try what ever they could. They even had programs and guidelines that worked against each other.
The book that helps with a glimpse of the 1930's is "From Yesterday" which gives some great insights from a variety of views and also uses a series of different areas of activities to outline the Great Depression.
Translation: "We can march faster than our crappy Ladas." lol
My Dad considered buying a Pacer back then. I even remember going with him to the AMC dealership on Beach Boulevard. He finally settled on a '76 Datsun 610 (now Nissan).
On a humorous note the bad guys in Cars 2 are The Lemons, a gang made up of Pacers, Gremlins and Yugos. The unreliability of the Yugo is touched upon in the film as the head of the Yugo crime family has to be towed around by one of his henchmen.
Or how about people think everyone loved FDR? The man was reviled in his time by a great many people.