THE BEST PRESIDENT TO EVER LEAD THE USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Final-Fan]

Kasz216 said:

Final-Fan said:
"Aside from which, he thought the bill of rights should be rescinded during wartime."

If you can dig up THAT, then I guess I really won't have a leg to stand on.

I read it in an biography piece on Elenaor Roosevelt a while back.  I'll try and dig it up.

Though I mean... Japanese Internment did rescind the Bill of Rights for Japanese people... he also rescinded freedom of the press... banning a socialist and anti-war matieral...

This book has an indepth account of how much was Roosevelts decision... and some one the racism as well I believe.

I just find it frightening people are willing to excuse something so fundamentally wrong?

I mean would nobody care about Guantanamo if Bush was a good president in all other regards?

When do you draw the line of what can't be erased by good deeds?

I thought you meant like the way Lincoln suspended habeas corpus.  The internment violated the civil rights of a group of people; you were saying he favored suspending civil rights.  That's different.  With XO9066 I'm sure he thought he was acting within the Constitution.  (Which does NOT excuse his actions, and I certainly hope you're not suggesting I have been making excuses for them.) 

As for censorship, I found a good article (book summary).  Sounds to me like he was a model of restraint compared to Wilson; he did however (apparently) abuse the system to hide his poor health and affair.