Good post as always 2ndDV.
Don’t be too hard on Hillary(!).
I remember seeing an Obama tee-shirt, very shortly after the election, and thinking “we could never have beaten that”.
And really, Hillary was running on her hubby’s coattails, that was always a little Evita Peron for most people.
But Obama’s rise was a mania, built upon Bush derangement syndrome, fanned by the MSM in full swoon, and hopefully NEVER TO BE REPEATED.
It is very easy to understand why he has fallen so hard, so fast, just like a pricked balloon.
Maybe it was God’s grace that the big O won, arguably nobody since Lincoln has done more for the Republican party.
But here is a question...the author writes “On the other side of the partisan ledger, Bill Clinton remains the only Democratic president elected after World War II to win re-election. Truman, Johnson, and Carter were undone in part by vigorous efforts within their own party to “dump” them...”
I thought Truman WAS re-elected (famous headline and all that), did he not run for a full second term? Bowed out to, who, Stevenson? Who lost to Ike? I could look this up, I realize, but I hope some freeper will explain it to me with context.
Thanks if anyone does!
Truman was not re-elected. His first election came int 1948 when he had been in office for three years already as FDR’s ex VP.
The headline was from the ‘48 election - Truman was already in office but only because he succeeded FDR after his death, so 48 was really his first run at being president even though he was currently serving. 22nd amendment didn’t apply to him due to grandfathering in.
But Truman opted not to run again ‘52, so Stevenson got the nomination and Eisenhower proceeded to mop the floor with him.
Truman had terrible approval ratings at the time (Korean War mostly, but more to it I’m sure) and stronger contenders for the Dem nomination, that’s probably why he gave up.
Truman was NOT elected POTUS in 1944. He finished FDRs term and then was elected POTUS in 1948. The amendment to limit presidents to 2 terms prevented him (he served for more than half of FDR’s term and that made him in-eligiable ) from a 3rd term in 1952.
Eisenhower was elected in 1952 and 1956.
Hillary is as much commieTrash as Zero and deserves to be hung alongside him for the treason they have visited on America.
Truman was NOT elected POTUS in 1944. He finished FDRs term and then was elected POTUS in 1948. The amendment to limit presidents to 2 terms prevented him (he served for more than half of FDR’s term and that made him in-eligiable ) from a 3rd term in 1952.
Eisenhower was elected in 1952 and 1956.