Stumbled upon one of FDR’s wittiest (and nastiest) campaign speeches. One part in particular sounds as if it could have been delivered during the 2012 presidential election, instead of almost a century ago:
It has been suggested that the American public was apparently elected to the role of our old friend, Alice in Wonderland. I agree that Alice was peering into a wonderful looking-glass of the wonderful economics. White Knights had great schemes of unlimited sales in foreign markets and discounted the future ten years ahead.
The poorhouse was to vanish like the Cheshire cat. A mad hatter invited everyone to “have some more profits.” There were no profits, except on paper. A cynical Father William in the lower district of Manhattan balanced the sinuous evil of a pool-ridden stock market on the end of his nose. A puzzled, somewhat skeptical Alice asked the Republican leadership some simple questions:
