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Democrats Change Name of Dinner To Honor Racist Harry Truman
Daily Caller ^
| 7/13/15
| Patrick Howley
Posted on 07/13/2015 1:46:06 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley
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posted on
07/13/2015 1:48:08 PM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
To: markomalley
America needs you Harry Truman, well, he was very young back then, he did end up befriending Catholics in Kansas. I think they were his bosses.
To: markomalley
Here we go again, these Dumbocrat twits who forever pronounce themselves as agents of tolerance when wanting to dig up graves or ban flags or tear down statues or remove television programs from popular viewership are ultimately contradicted by their own real history.
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posted on
07/13/2015 1:51:57 PM PDT
by
OttawaFreeper
("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
To: markomalley
President Truman integrated the once segregated US Armed Forces.
Some racist, he...
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posted on
07/13/2015 1:53:57 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Some racist, he...
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posted on
07/13/2015 1:57:12 PM PDT
by
markomalley
(Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
To: markomalley
When I was young in the 50s it was well known that Truman had been a member of the Klan although at that time so were most politicians in certain areas of the country.
I once did a search and found nothing at all to confirm it but I am certain that he was. My Brother-in-Law was from South Illinois, knew quite a bit about Truman. One thing he told me was that he was a member of the Pendergast Gang.
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posted on
07/13/2015 1:58:41 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: SatinDoll
Truman and JFK are the only Democrats in the last 120 years (since Grover Cleveland) who were merely mediocre presidents and not abysmal. In the world of the abysmal, being mediocre makes you excellent.
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posted on
07/13/2015 1:59:47 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: yarddog
One thing he told me was that he was a member of the Pendergast Gang.My father told me that he got his start in national politics because the Pendergast Gang bragged to another big shot in the state that they could take a nobody and make him a U.S. Senator. HST was a minor ward boss at the time and they agreed that he was enough of a nobody for the Pendergast test.
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posted on
07/13/2015 2:03:03 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: markomalley
Not a fan of harry Truman myself - but - why is it that those who throw stones are always the most intolerant? Never fails to amaze me. Perhaps it is their lack of Christian spirit?
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posted on
07/13/2015 2:14:53 PM PDT
by
Gumdrop
To: markomalley
If they really want to eliminate all artifacts of slavery and the Confederacy, they need to outlaw the Democrat party.
“Party of Slavery” at its founding two centuries ago, Party of Slavery today.
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posted on
07/13/2015 2:15:42 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: markomalley
More cultural cleansing. First the Confederate flag, now this.
At this ever quickening pace, the Dems will have erased all traces of their deeply racist history in just a few more generations.
To: markomalley
To: All
In the book “O Jerusalem”, Truman is said to have called a friend (who was pushing for a Jewish nation) as a “Jewish bastard”.
There is some question as to whether the comment was mean as a slur or whether it was good-natured exasperation at his friend’s lobbying - but if we are going to play the slippery slope game, then Truman’s name should not be attached to the dinner because of either his anti-Semitism or his lack of class.
To: yarddog
Truman had been in the Klan in the 20s. He wasn't a very active member and didn't take kindly to the Klan demand that members not hire Catholics or Jews.
Can we just say Truman was a foul-mouthed little man and leave it at that? Maybe whatever greatness he had in him makes his faults stand out, so he has to be more strongly condemned -- as a racist -- than if he were just an average person who liked to toss around ethnic slurs.
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posted on
07/13/2015 2:33:19 PM PDT
by
x
To: markomalley
My observation of politics in my native Michigan in the Truman era was that there were elements of the Klan in both parties. My father pointed out Klan members from both parties that he knew in the churches and other groups in the state.
Truman saved Berlin from the USSR with his airlift in 1948 - 1949, making him a hero to the German people. Like many, he was not all bad.
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posted on
07/13/2015 3:18:56 PM PDT
by
Ace's Dad
(Proud grandpa of a "Brit Chick" named Poppy Loucks (Call sign "Popsickle").)
To: markomalley
How about racist Robert Byrd .
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posted on
07/13/2015 3:22:54 PM PDT
by
Lionheartusa1
()-: 0bamanomics is the equal distribution of adolescent propaganda & indoctrination :-)
To: markomalley
How about racist Robert Byrd .
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posted on
07/13/2015 3:23:43 PM PDT
by
Lionheartusa1
()-: 0bamanomics is the equal distribution of adolescent propaganda & indoctrination :-)
To: markomalley
Harry S. Truman was many things, but he was NEVER a racist. He and a Jewish friend actually confronted a KKK meeting and shamed these racist cowards. Truman desegregated the U.S. military after WW2. He worked to reverse the damage done by the real racist, President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson was responsible for segregating the various departments and agencies of the government. Truman's civil rights work was opposed by the racists in the Democrat Party.
To: MasterGunner01
Why does Truman get a pass for being a member of the KKK?
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posted on
07/13/2015 4:53:05 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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