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"Rush Limbaugh needs to pick up a history book instead of a donut. It was a Democratic president who first recognized the State of Israel. It was a Democratic President who first sold Israel defensive weapons. And it was a Democratic President who first sold Israel offensive weapons."

Not many of today's Democrats would vote for Truman.

Not many of today's Democrats would vote for Truman.

Zell Miller is the modern Democrat most like Truman. And look at how the Dems treated him in 2004.

"Not many of today's Democrats would vote for Truman."
Probably. They'd get a conniption fit over the following:

http://www.struat.com/election/2004_09.html

April 17, 1952
"President Truman indicated today that he believed he or any United States President had the theoretical power to seize newspapers and radio stations to protect the national welfare in war or great emergency.
But a White House spokesman quickly added that it was "absolutely unlikely" anything of that nature ever would have to be done.
Mr. Truman's view, given at a news conference, startled some of the editors here for the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
Controversy has boiled over the President's seizure of the steel mills. One of the visiting editors asked the President: "If it is proper under your inherent powers to seize the steel mills, can you in your opinion seize the newspapers and the radio stations?"
Mr. Truman replied that under similar circumstances the President the President had to do whatever he believed was best for the country.
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Several of the editors, many of whom attended the press conference, did not believe the President actually meant he had power to take over radio stations and newspapers.
Anthony F. Jones, president of Newspaper Editors and editor of the Syracuse (NY) Hearld-Journal, said: "What I thought the President meant was that he has the power to take over steel. It would be putting words in his mouth to say anything else."
But Walter M. Harrison of Oklahoma City, former president of the society, said: "I think he meant he could take over the papers, radio, and everything else. If that isn't on the edge of totalitarianism, I don't know what is."

April 18, 1952
The White House minimized today President Truman's remark yesterday implying that he had the power to seize newspapers and radio stations in an emergency.
Joseph Short, White House press secretary, was asked for clarification or amplification of Mr. Truman's answer to a question at his news conference.
"It was a purely academic and hypothetical question and there is no amplification or comment to it," Mr. Short said.
A reporter then said that some editors, members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, seemed to interpret Mr. Truman's reply as affirmative.
"You can quote them on it," Mr. Short retorted.
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