Newsflash for the Dixie Chicks

The American Spectator ^ | 24 May 2006 | Jeffrey Lord

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It didn't start with Iraq. Or with George W. Bush.

The modern liberal paradigm of America's role in the world is not new. Whispered by Jimmy Carter, bellowed by Al Gore or parroted by John Edwards, vocalized by a young John Kerry or an old John Murtha, the notion that America is an imperial war power run amok alienating the world has a longer lineage. It is a paradigm born exactly sixty years ago this September in Madison Square Garden.

On that September 12th of 1946, the world was in turmoil. Winston Churchill had months earlier delivered a blistering assessment of the post-World War reality. With Harry Truman at his side Churchill warned that "an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent." Stalin's Soviet Union was on the march. Soon, the Russians would have the atomic bomb.

Stepping to the podium in the Garden that September night was Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace, Franklin Roosevelt's Vice President in FDR's third term. Uneasy about Wallace's left-wing pronouncements Democratic bosses convinced FDR to replace him with Truman in the 1944 election. With Roosevelt's death Truman was now president. The result of the Garden speech was explosive.

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Did you know there was an original Dixie Chicks before Natalie Mange came along? They sang a lot of original western songs really well. I have a CD of them somewhere around here. The New Chicks and their "Sinwagon" or "Hayride to Hell" or whatever they called it was just hard to listen to. They fell off my list of favor before they showed the *sses over in England..

[Darkwolf377]

Yup. I am thinking of my grandparents, all Democrats. They never lived to see the Reagan presidency, but I think they would have all followed their two children, my parents, and turned Republican, something Irish Catholic Bostonians just DO NOT DO.

[P-40]

I am thinking of my grandparents, all Democrats.

Same here. I am glad they did not live to see what became of their party. I know some of the old timers that were famous not so long ago and it makes me sad to see them so sad.