[FreeKeys]

 GWB and HST ( at  http://freedomkeys.com/w-tangfacts.htm  ):
2 TOUGH-MINDED, PLAIN-SPOKEN, HARD-DECISION-MAKING WARTIME PRESIDENTS
... in contrast to the "right stuff / wrong stuff" picture at http://boortz.com/nuze/200410/10012004.html#orlando

[socal_parrot]

And the winner, by almost two minutes...


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643644/posts

[mnehring]

They don't make Dems like Harry any more. (OK, Zell may be close)

[Coop]

Great article, as always, by Mr. Barone. Thanks for posting!

[Always Right]

We complain about a tide of immigration that is, per U.S. resident, running at one-third the rate of 99 years ago.

The amnesty policy 99 years ago was, you serve honorably in the military for two years, you become a citizen.

[Graybeard58]

We complain about a tide of immigration

I don't know anyone who is complaining about immigration.

[MEG33]

My dad was a great admirer of Truman..Great article..I am old enough to have lived through all this history. Bush was criticized for the remark.."end on your watch"..So many people are so unmindful of history or else they just want to stick their heads in the sand and ignore the reality of this War on Terror...

(No one ever mentions that we lost 54,000 in Korea either.)

[DCPatriot]

God Bless President Bush and our brave troops everywhere.

[D-Chivas]

I would like to find Harry Truman's timetable for withdrawal from South Korea. Do any Democrats still have it?

[prognostigaator]

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[Darkwolf377]

Thanks for posting an article that isn't written based on looking at the polls and the MSM coverage, but on history.

[Darkwolf377]

http://boortz.com/nuze/200410/10012004.html#orlando

I complain plenty about Bush, but I think of those two pics and reality returns.

[elhombrelibre]

The Truman/Scoop Jackson wing of the Democratic Party is gone. The Henry Wallace/George McGovern/John Dean Wing is in control. Their wing controls the MSM; it dominates our Universities, and it spreads despair and defeatism whenever it can. If there is anything to be pessimistic about, that is it.

[GAB-1955]

People thought Truman was a dummy and vulnerable when he was in office, too.

[Mo1]

Nailed it!

Thank you, Michael Barone for remembering History correctly

Ping

[Right_in_Virginia]

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[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Bush noted. "Fortunately, we had a president named Harry Truman, who recognized the threat, took bold action to confront it and laid the foundation for freedom's victory in the Cold War."

[Siena Dreaming]

This is such a refreshing article.

Not only is Pres. Bush taking flak from the usual leftist suspects...he is now being viciously attacked from the right who knee-jerk to the latest news story.

I agree with Michael Barone. Thank God for Pres. Bush's long view of history. We have a real leader in the White House.

[Verginius Rufus]

Barone quotes the old figures that used to be given for the Korean War (54,246, of which 33,629 were battle deaths and 20,617 other deaths). A re-examination of the data led to significantly lower figures: currently the official statistics are 33,667 battle deaths and 3,249 other deaths, for a total of 36,916 American deaths.

I believe President Bush recently used the erroneous total in the commencement speech he gave at West Point.

[billbears]

Bush Knows His History

And he put the challenge these cadets willingly undertook in perspective by looking back at the challenges America faced at the start of the Cold War 60 years ago.

Well of course if he really knew his history he would have spoken about how Wilson's request for Russia to stay in the war and Wilson's entry of the US into a war that was none of our business (the first attempt at 'spreading democracy') laid the groundwork for the Communist Party to come to power in Russia late in 1917. Of course inconvenient issues as actual history instead of State history aren't too popular are they?

[Chena]

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