tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post7390226088153705678..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: He Lived the American Dream - and NightmareTwilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-62778358306374578542008-05-31T18:52:00.000-05:002008-05-31T18:52:00.000-05:00Yes, it does seem the wrong place, and I apologise...Yes, it does seem the wrong place, and I apologise to the late President Truman. I would move these comments to be placed under the post of a couple of days ago when I mentioned a few odd conspiracy theories about the primaries - but I'll probably end up crashing the whole thing,so.....never mind!<BR/><BR/>I'm sure you're right TNPOTUS, the Republicans have had lots of practice in slinging mud at the Clintons, they'll have a filing cabinet (or several) full of stuff they can use - whether it's true or relevant is another matter, of course. <BR/><BR/>I wasn't meaning to imply that I think Senator Clinton would get a free pass. Far from it. <BR/><BR/>It looks as though the Republicans will have to carry on gathering new material to sling at Obama though, the way the DNC have voted makes it almost impossible for Clinton to be the nominee.<BR/><BR/>I did enjoy watching the whole thing on TV today. There are some people there from whom I got a really good feeling.<BR/><BR/> It ain't over 'til it's over, and even then it might not be. ;-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-4038279018162267602008-05-31T17:49:00.000-05:002008-05-31T17:49:00.000-05:00Ooops! On that website mentioned, it should be liz...Ooops! On that website mentioned, it should be lizzardworld.com not lizzardword!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-68296898588407618792008-05-31T17:16:00.000-05:002008-05-31T17:16:00.000-05:00A blog in praise of Harry S. doesn't seem the righ...A blog in praise of Harry S. doesn't seem the right format to discuss "associates" and anti-Americanism and conspiracies and the like, but I'm in a chatty mood. So, here are some topics that haven't surfaced in the Dems primary campaign but will most certainly arise from the right wing should Hillary win the nomination:<BR/>1. Hillary's involvement with the Black Panthers and the "New Haven Nine" when she was a legal intern in the 1970s.<BR/>2. Hillary's role in 1969 as an editor for the Yale Review of Law and Social Action, which conservatives believe to be a journal promoting cop killing and cartoons of pig-faced police.<BR/>3. Her close association with Yale law professor Thomas Emerson, who's known as "Tommy the Commie."<BR/>4. Both Clintons are accused of masterminding the "suicide/murder" of former White House aide Vince Foster, something Rush and the boys have been spewing on radio for decades.<BR/>5. The Clintons association with James and Susan McDougal, the Rose Law Firm and the Whitewater Affair.<BR/>5. And here's a weird one - check out www.lizzardword.com/?p=152.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-4987831484201336242008-05-31T16:10:00.000-05:002008-05-31T16:10:00.000-05:00Yes, after a few quick Googlings, TNPOTUS, I see w...Yes, after a few quick Googlings, TNPOTUS, I see what you are saying about Truman.....and in fact about all politics in America - a crooked business, for sure. I realised a while ago that "the end justifies the means" is often brought into play.<BR/><BR/>However, two things occur to me (off the top of my tin foil hat)<BR/><BR/>#1. Truman didn't run as a presidential candidate, he became president in the most unexpected way, so while his entry into politics may have been thanks to a shady character in Kansas City, he didn't put himself forward as any kind of Superman who would bring hope and change. His attitude seems to have been - I'll do the best I can, but don't expect too much".<BR/>and<BR/>#2. Tom Prendergast may have been a bit of a crook but from what I can find on-line I doubt he was anti-American in any way whatsoever. If the associates of Obama were simply crooks it'd be easier to accept - they aren't they are anti-American and former terrorists. <BR/><BR/>But you made an interesting point that's part of the whole picture cwhen thinking about President Truman, TNPOTUS - thank you for the input. :-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-40565965623898493892008-05-31T15:32:00.000-05:002008-05-31T15:32:00.000-05:00Harry S. was an outstanding president, who in most...Harry S. was an outstanding president, who in most regards showed the character we seem to think is missing from modern politicians. However, in this discussion that seems to be raging about politicians and their "associates," 'lest we forget, Truman owed his entire political career to a man named Tom Pendergast, who ran a political, gangsterish machine in Kansas City and Jackson County that was even more sinister than Richard J. Daley's Chicago machine.<BR/><BR/>Until he became VP, Truman was known in Capitol Hill as being "Tom Pendergast's" boy.<BR/><BR/>My first rule of politics, and about everything else as well: Ain't nobody got clean hands.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com