[MadEagle]

Thank you for posting this fantastic article.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Previously posted.

[dodger]

Some truth ... but unlike GW, Harry was a crime syndicate flunkie, wasn't he? He also muffed the chance to cleanse the world of the pinkies.

[dalebert]

I knew Bush was great all the time.

[MJY1288]

Great Article,

[petuniasevan]

Awesome. Overused word, I know. Thanks, ok, for posting this, and thanks to Peggy Noonan for writing it.

[newzjunkey]

Noonan Bump!

[Cicero]

Liberals have pumped up Truman's reputation. In point of fact, he was a second-rater with a background in corrupt machine politics. To give him credit, he seems to have dropped his criminal habits after he got into the White House, and for the most part he managed to appoint good advisers.

For that reason, I think Peggy's comparison is pretty silly on its face. But maybe she has the right idea nonetheless, because it's a perspective that liberals are likely to find attractive, especially the idea that Bush "rose to the occasion" after September 11, which lets them all off the hook for calling him stupid.

Truman mended his ways after getting into the White House. Bush mended his ways twenty years earlier.