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From: liuyh@vis.toronto.edu (Yuanhui Liu)
Subject: Re: Bush & Truman
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:49:21 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.215809.4104@desire.wright.edu> demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man) writes:
>In article <ballard.27@panther.adelphi.edu>, ballard@panther.adelphi.edu (Terry Ballard) writes:
>> 
>>    So now our President has looked back into the past (something
>> that Republicans have always been very good at) and found a role
>> model - Harry Truman.  He says this long enough and loud enough to
>> drown out any spinning sounds that might be coming from the general
>> direction of Truman's grave.  However, in my humble opinion, there
>> are places where the comparison fails:
>>    1.  Truman was a genuine and likeable human being.  He did not
>
>	People hated Truman.

I guess that's how he got re-elected.  

>
>> need handlers to give him careful instructions about how to talk
>> down to America.  He just got out there and gave people a double
>> shot of the man he really was.
>
>	Yep, gotta fire people to prove who is in charge.

Sure, fire someone who messed up on the battlefield and got his ass kicked
and then cry foul, ask for nuclear bombs, blockade, and total war, fire someone
which was essentially fighting his own private war since WWII, 
and no admiral, general, senator or president dare to offend before, acting
like a Roman Proconsul rather than a US general under civillian command, 
and appearing to be the household alias for "hero" in those days,
that's some gutsy move, isn't it?  

>
>>    2.  Truman did not need to compare himself to past Republican
>> presidents in a cheap effort to get party crossover votes.  Nor
>> would he have wanted to.
>
>	Of course not, he was too busy trying to woo the State Dependents newly
>created by the Roosevelt Dictator...errr...presidency.

I suppose comparing himself to Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover  the "borrow 
and spend on stocks and bribe" presidents of the 1920s wouldn't really 
hurt, would it?

>
>>    3.  Truman knew when Pearl Harbor was bombed.
>
>	And when China should have been bombed.

And when NOT to bomb China, you idiot!  Just imagine how happy Stalin
will be, the USA will be stuck in a horrifying war, in fielding millions
of troops, looking like an Imperial asshole in every spectrum, and
the Soviet Union don't even have to lift a finger, and can do the "all 
oppressed non-white people Unite" skit.  don't you know the quote "Wrong 
war in the wrong place at the wrong time?"  Korea or Vietnam is no China, 
and the Vietnam war deeply shake America.  
>
>>    Yes, Bush is repeating that period of history, but not in the
>> way that he would have us believe.  If he wants to go back to that
>> era and find a role model for himself and the Republicans of 1992,
>> then I would suggest Senator Joseph McCarthy. 
>
>	Bush isn't like anyone.  He's a whole new breed of political chameleon.
>
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