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Where have all the Trumans gone?
Posted By katie allison granju
Sean Braisted saw the new movie “Charlie Wilson’s War,” and it left him wondering who qualifies nowadays as a good old-fashioned, blue-dog Democrat:
What I’m wondering is if the Conservatives are going to adopt this film and bemoan the lack of Democrats like Charlie Wilson to have the same passion for fighting Islamic extremists that he had for fighting the Soviets. Traditionally, they typically used Scoop Jackson or Harry Truman as the role model for a “good Democrat” when it comes to foreign affairs, and now they use Joe Lieberman for his unqualified support of Bush’s foreign policy, but perhaps they can try an adopt Rep. Wilson, as he is far more likable (at least Tom Hanks’ portrayal is) from a Democratic perspective than is Joe Lieberman.
Dec 21st, 2007
I agree that a lot of modern day Democrats are not tough enough on national security and generally far too politically correct. At the same time, I don’t see much courage or vision on the part of Repubicans. Sorry, but George Bush is no Harry Truman.
The threat of Islamic terrorism is real but certainly not the only internal or external danger to the USA. We face a potentially greater peril with the rising economic and military power of China. It seems that the vast majority of our sold-out politicians in both parties seem perfectly happy to continue huge trade deficits tha will enable to China to eventually dominate the world.