The only reason wingers get a woody for Truman is because he dropped the bomb on Japan and went to war in Korea. It's that simple.
Great. Great. I don't see comparison... Due to: 1944 Democratic National Convention... Drop the bomb... Hardline on Soviets... Better examples of bipartisian support... Fought foreign threats actively... Korean war... Israel's interests... His foreign policy is what sets him vastly apart from today's majority of neo-dems...In addition he didn't have the anti 2nd admendment voting record of a Kerry...So you are wrong, what's new?
I never said I had tons in common with Truman, but when you take everything that he was FOR,...I'd take that. I'd take that over any of the neo-dem garbage that claims to be leaders... In my estimation and when you look at everything..., I would rank him as the best President ever.
You don't see the comparison because you're just trolling and effectively lying or are ignorant of basic assumpitons. "Bipartisanship" during truman's era was nonexistent and the parties were even more polarized than they are now. As for Korea and the Soviet Union - as has been pointed out to you 5 times in this thread, but you refuse to acknowledge, because again you are trolling, the criticism of truman leveled by Republicans in his era was precisely the same criticism you use today of present democrats - not that he was "hardline", but that he was not hardline enough. Basically, the only point you have raised that separates a progressive, new dealer liberal like truman from modern is that he attended the Democratic Convention in 1944, which I guess means that they lack the capacity for time travel PS, I feel no need to dig up your old posts where you decry teh welfare state and the types of progressive social programs that were truman's calling card. We know what you wrote.
Since we have entered the nonsensical realm of jackasshatown I am ranking David Hassehoff as the absolute best President ever, and you can go jump off a cliff if you disagree. Serves me right for taking you seriously - I will never make that mistake again.
Neo-dem is my own terminology for the vast majority post 1975 Democrats (political leaders as such)... It is my view the pre-1975 Democratic Presidents were much better...
Thankfully I don't live in your world of "nonsensical realm of jackasshatown", otherwise I would not be able to refute your anti-sense with specific examples...: Although he claimed no personal expertise on foreign matters, and the opposition Republicans controlled Congress, Truman was able to win bipartisan support for both the Truman Doctrine, which formalized a policy of containment, and the Marshall Plan, which aimed to help rebuild postwar Europe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman
LOL, well by that measure GWB has him beat. He was able to get bipartisan support for the war in Iraq and the get bipartisan opposition to it in less than four years. But the important thing here is that Hasselhoff= 1, you suck donkey butts tool boy! Yeah!Suck em if you got em tool king!
