Wouldn't it be a fine thing to have another president whose first serious taste of failure didn't come in the Oval Office?
We don't need presidents with exclusive academic credentials. We need presidents who know what it's like to work for a living. We need presidents who understand average Americans. We need presidents for whom the White House isn't just the ultimate résumé entry.
Truman, Eisenhower and Reagan had different visions of what was right for America -- but their concern was America, not themselves.
These profoundly different men had two other things in common: They weren't lawyers, and they had the courage to make tough decisions, from dropping the first atomic bombs to telling the chieftain of an evil empire to tear down a wall.
Our post-modern presidents can't even decide what to do with blood-soaked terrorists. I don't think that would've been a problem for Harry, Ike or the Gipper.
exactly right
Ralph Peters’ new book: “Endless War: Middle-Eastern Islam vs. Western Civilization”
http://www.amazon.com/Endless-War-Middle-Eastern-Western-Civilization/dp/0811705501
What makes these two presidential trios so different?
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Not for nuthin’, but all three of the most recent potuses experimented with drug use. If their presidencies have one common thread, it is that “Mmmmmm, drugs are bad”.
“The answer is character.” Always is!
Character is what you are when nobodys around.
The author betrays his, and unfortunately, most of his audience’s “post-modern” view of history, by making the all too common assumption, that the way we do things today is somehow different, solely because we have somehow changed from our ancestors.
The truth is, while we have changed the language of our arguments, it is only a cosmetic change. Half of our countrymen, by definition, remain “below average”. And there is no way around that.
Idealistic fools, much like today’s socialists, lived in America even before the word “socialist” was coined. And their hair-brained schemes were just as pestiferous then, or even more so, than they are now.
This “proto-socialism” was used to justify the ethnic cleansing of the Indian tribes, slavery, terrible abuse of federal power, and economic malfeasance resulting in painful national depressions.
It was always backed by the very worst in humanity: hate, greed, sloth, bigotry, superstition, misogyny, imperialism and worse.
The times it came to the fore often accompanied or precipitated disasters to our nation. And the people never learned from their mistakes.
Somehow, we got by. But over the course of more than 200 years, these people have built up so much garbage in Washington, that we cannot see our capital for the detritus.
King obuma has character, but it’s not good character. I’d characterize him as a simpering, lying, two-faced egomaniacal psychotic.
I usually agree with most everything that Ralph Peters says, but I believe that George W. Bush was and still is a man of character. I thank God that he was POTUS during and after 9-11 and that he had the courage of his convictions to do what had to be done to keep us safe throughout the remainder of his presidency. Even though I did not agree with all of his policies, his policies have nothing to do with a lack of character or personal integrity.
I never thought of GWB as ambitious. And I don’t get what makes Truman great.
And didn’t Ike give us a very liberal SCOTUS?