[Williams]

Uh, Harry Truman didn't seek reelection because he couldn't end the Korean War.

It really makes sense (not) to start attacking all our strong national defense leaders for not serving in combat in their youth, and to put in charge veterans who want to dismantle our defenses. Are the republicans articulate enough to explain that, duh, that would be a mistake.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

"Uh, Harry Truman didn't seek reelection because he couldn't end (the Korean War"

I seem to recall that Ike said "I will go to Korea", and that was pretty much rhe end of Truman's hopes for re-election. , my point was that the Korean War was, like practically all Democrat-started wars, completely avoidable. Roosevelt, then Truman, flatly refused to include the Korean Peninsula in our zone of protection in the Pacific, which emboldened the Russians to support the NK Communists in their attempt to sieze the South. It would have taken so little to prevent this war- but the Democrats, as usual, were too cowardly to even try.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Actually, there were several reasons for Truman not seeking re-election- the first being that his Party was convinced he could not win. Somwthing about firing our finest General in the middle of a war , seizing the steel industry in violation of lots of laws, and corruption within his Administration, when Truman had made his bones in the Senate by fighting wartime defense contractor corruption via the so-called "Truman Commission.
He remains my favorite Democrat, but for his and George Marshall's efforts in post-war Europe, rather than any domestic agenda or Korean War action, where he deferred to the feckless United Nations.

But saying that someone is MY "favorite Democrat" is sort of like me going out into the dog yard and nominating" my favorite dog turd!"

I hate and despise Democrats, in case that is not clear.