[lbo-talk] FDR's Grandson Protests image hijacking

[alex lantsberg]

if i recall correctly, the repugs (ward connerly i believe) used a 
similar tactic when they were pushing prop 209 in CA.  they really are a 
shameless bunch aren't they...

al

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>The ad, running on Fox News and CNN through January 19, shows FDR signing 
>the legislation creating the Social Security system and refers to the courage needed 
>both to create the system and to protect it. 
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>To compare the courage needed to create Social Security "to the courage it will take 
>to dismantle the most successful social program in history is simply unconscionable," 
>Roosevelt, 70, wrote. 
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>FDR's Grandson Protests Soc. Security Ad 
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>Thu Jan 13, 3:59 PM ET
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>By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer 
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>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&e=8&u=/ap/social_security_roosevelt
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>WASHINGTON - The grandson of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Thursday protested 
>use of FDR's image in a television ad touting President Bush 's plan to partially privatize 
>Social Security.
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>"My grandfather would surely oppose the ideas now being promoted by this administration 
>and your organization," James Roosevelt Jr., wrote in a letter to Progress for America, a 
>private group that supports conservative issues. 
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>Roosevelt, who served as the Social Security Administration 's associate commissioner 
>for retirement policy in the Clinton administration, said, "On behalf of my family, I would 
>ask that you cease using my grandfather's image in your advertising campaign." 
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