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ZOD said:
FDR never saw combat...
Very true, and he did an admirable job during the hellish years of WWII. But if I was living in the 1930s and FDR was running for the first time, I'd have no way of knowing how he'd perform in a time of war. Had he been running against a combat veteran candidate that first time, and if leadership in time of war was going to be the main deciding factor in who I'd vote for, I might not have voted for FDR.
I've stated this several times in several threads - I don't think we can ever really know how any leader will react to a crisis, which makes it difficult to decide who to vote for based on that specific criteria. But perhaps we need to give ourselves something reasonable to work with to help us make our decisions, as many of us do.
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