Posted on 09/15/2009 11:29:01 AM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
In understanding how far the Democratic Party has moved from its center of gravity in an earlier generation, it is salutary to remember that Democrats were once known as the more international and hawkish of the two political parties. Until the late 1960s, Democrat presidents were consistently more likely than Republicans to flex Americas military might abroad. Democrat administrations led America into both World Wars. Democrat president Harry Truman promulgated the Truman Doctrine which like Bushs own doctrine pledged America to support peoples fighting for their freedom abroad.
No president during the Cold War sounded the call to arms more eloquently than John F. Kennedy himself, warning the enemies of freedom that America would pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsrealblog.com ...
liberty?
I don’t think the Democrats allow that word to pass their lips anymore. The collective trumps liberty. Conformity of thought trumps diversity of thought. Thoughts against the collective are racist. Or so they show by their actions.
I read his/your article yesterday. I think the onsalaught of Zero speaches PROVE that the assertion that Zero is a Manchurian Candidate can not be refuted anymore. He is NEVER in the Oval office. He is ALWAYS out propagandizing to the idiot class...while the minions of the Fascist elite work their disgusting will.
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