Posted on 05/12/2007 6:49:50 AM PDT by rhema
He’d actually be eligible to run, if he wasn’t viability challenged. He was excluded from the provisions of the XXII.
LLS
I think I agree with you on the Republican thought of him being Republican today. Hell he already has an aircraft carrier named after him and he was a democrat. Oops I almost said he was the first but I forgot about JFK.
Vote for Truman? No way! I’ll give you three reasons: Korea, Communism, corruption.
Back then probably not much difference between dems and republicans at that time. Probably just on economics mostly. There was no abortion, gay marriage, embryonic cells, etc. In fact, they probably had it much easier then in politics.
So does Rep. Carl Vinson (D-Va.)
Now we have: North Korean (and Iranian) nukes, multiculturalism/globalism, and Abramoff corruption. I’m so impressed at our progress.
In '48 Reagan campaigned for Truman because Truman did a lot of things right --NATO, the Marshal Plan, and the Berlin Airlift, all of which halted the Russian empire at Greece, Turkey, and Austria.
Truman saw the need to stop Stalin and pushed for a huge expansion of the defense budget. The Taft Republicans fought the military every inch of the way saying that of course they supported the troops but they did not support the mission.
If we condemn Truman for the dumb things he did then we have to condemn Reagan too. If we can forgive Reagan by saying he changed with the '70's then we can forgive Truman by saying he would have changed had he lived that long. There's no having it both ways.
What made Truman such a Great President was not that he did not make mistakes, he did. It’s that he tried to do the right thing.
Truman recognized that in dealing with Stalin he couldn't get everything he wanted, but thought the US should be able to get 85%.
And, as far as I know, Bush was not the hand picked candidate funded by a gangster. Trumans start in politics was a leeeetle shady.
Yes, you have that exactly right!
LLS
Sure, Truman got a few things right, including his decision to nuke Japan. But then there’s the matter of Alger Hiss, the loss of China, and failure to finish the job in Korea when we had the Commies on the run. One might also recall that Truman was a supporter of big government—remember the Fair Deal?—and big labor.
Well, trying to do the right thing is probably better than trying to do the wrong thing, but imho actually accomplishing something is what counts.
Sen. Joe McCarthy tried really hard to stop Communist infiltration. He started in Jan. 1950 with a list of 205 "known communists" and proceeded to repeatedly change the number. The list was kept secret and all we got were faked photos and accusations that George Marshal and Ike Eisenhower were Stalin's agents. McCarthy never once successfully exposed one single Communist agent.
Truman fired hundreds of federal workers on suspicion, let thousands quit on their own, and he sent Hiss to jail.
Henry Wallace was a Communist. He was considered a major liability to the ticket and it was why he was demoted to Agriculture Secretary.
Carl Vinson was from Georgia. His grandnephew was Sen. Sam Nunn.
--and Reagan was a supporter of Truman. I refuse to hate Reagan, or give Reagan a pass and not Truman. Let's not value politics over principle. My take is that I'm glad Truman succeeded with standing up to Stalin and that he failed to get socialized medicine put into law.
And Hillary Clinton was a supporter of Goldwater.
And I'm glad that he failed in his attempt to veto the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947, aka the Taft Hartley law.
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