President Roosevelt
Published in Al-Khaleej
(U.A.E.) on 8 November 2014
by Kafia Al-Ka'bi (link to original)
Forty-four presidents have flocked to rule the United States, and one of them continuously governed from 1933 to 1945. President Roosevelt was not only great and unique in his management of American affairs during the most important turning points, when he led a coalition of nations to victory during World War II, but he was also physically disabled — confined to a wheelchair.
Roosevelt was paralyzed since childhood as a result of a camp’s contaminated drinking water. The disease left his body paralyzed, but his ambition was greater than his limited movement, as he ascended to political power and became the 32nd president of the United States of America. His work proved transformational and extended beyond the reach of his family. He became a sponsor of pan-American affairs in the difficult period of World War II. From the confines of his chair, he was still always the first to act.
There is a general impression among most that people with disabilities cannot perform certain tasks, let alone be president. Therefore, Roosevelt hid his paralysis at first, but announced it publicly after proving his ability to lead the country efficiently, effectively, and with distinction. One should be judged on the basis of reality rather than on the basis of sterile and flimsy prejudices. Roosevelt proved that paralysis is not a barrier to becoming one of the three greatest presidents of the nation.
However, change does not come from the outside, but inevitably from the inside. If we begin from a point of mutual respect and respect of privacy, we can then reciprocate understanding and appreciation. This requires not only being honest with oneself, but also constructively working within your community to make a path for the future. Today, we can choose to identify and be loyal to our homeland, rally, and bind ourselves together as one. God grant us security and safety for our leaders and sages.
Roosevelt was paralyzed since childhood as a result of a camp’s contaminated drinking water. The disease left his body paralyzed, but his ambition was greater than his limited movement, as he ascended to political power and became the 32nd president of the United States of America. His work proved transformational and extended beyond the reach of his family. He became a sponsor of pan-American affairs in the difficult period of World War II. From the confines of his chair, he was still always the first to act.
There is a general impression among most that people with disabilities cannot perform certain tasks, let alone be president. Therefore, Roosevelt hid his paralysis at first, but announced it publicly after proving his ability to lead the country efficiently, effectively, and with distinction. One should be judged on the basis of reality rather than on the basis of sterile and flimsy prejudices. Roosevelt proved that paralysis is not a barrier to becoming one of the three greatest presidents of the nation.
However, change does not come from the outside, but inevitably from the inside. If we begin from a point of mutual respect and respect of privacy, we can then reciprocate understanding and appreciation. This requires not only being honest with oneself, but also constructively working within your community to make a path for the future. Today, we can choose to identify and be loyal to our homeland, rally, and bind ourselves together as one. God grant us security and safety for our leaders and sages.
I am a citizen of the United States. And a registered Democrat with a moderate socialist ideal, hoping that CLASS STRUGGLE does not culminate in bloody social strife. So naturally Franklin D. Roosevelt is dear to me. For decades now Republicans and even neo-Democrats in America have waged political war on New Deal values, the concept of government not as Big Brother but as a Helping Hand. Sad to say, President Obama makes FDR look like a flaming Bolshevik. Oddly enough FDR was loathed by American plutocrats. He was a ” traitor to his class “, they said. The nerve of THAT MAN actually caring about the vast majority of American people-the poor and the working class.
I suspect that it was precisely his paralysis from polio that gave Franklin D. Roosevelt the precious gift of EMPATHY. Can this miracle happen to President Obama ? Can he finally EARN his Nobel Peace Prize-like Martin Luther King ? The audacity of hope !
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