Your really have to hand it to the right wing, their shamelessness truly seems to know no bounds. Via Daily Kos, we see that a conservative interest group has started running an ad (watch here) promoting Social Security reform featuring Franklin D. Roosevelt. That's right, they're using images of the man in a campaign to completely gut his most lasting and important achievement.
The Democrats aren't sitting on their hands this time, though. Their new "war room" quickly found a Roosevelt (FDR's grandson) to write them a letter asking that they stop using his grandfather's image.
For seventy years, Social Security has been the bedrock of retirement security for millions of Americans thanks to the efforts of President Roosevelt. My grandfather would surely oppose the ideas now being promoted by this administration and your organization. Not only that, but to compare the courage it took to provide a guaranteed insurance program for our seniors and the disabled to the courage it will take to dismantle the most successful social program in history is simply unconscionable. We should be working to protect and promote Social Security, not cutting benefits for our seniors.
On behalf of my family, I would ask that you cease using my grandfather's image in your advertising campaign.
Respectfully,
James Roosevelt Jr.