Dewey Defeats Truman!

[Reader Rabbit]

Whenever I need inspiration and hope, I reread my tattered copy of Plain Speaking, Merle Miller's biography of Harry Truman. If anyone has a copy of this, I would strongly advise reading Chapter 22, "The 1948 Victory." There are many parallels between our current fight and Truman's uphill battle against not just his Republican opponent, but naysayers in his own party, turncoats, not to mention the press, as well.

I've been using these parallels not just for inspiration, but in my faxes to the wimps and wafflers. We need to be the party of Harry Truman again, and start kicking a little ass!

Quotes to use:

"Newspapermen...they're all a bunch of lazy cusses, once one of them writes something, the others rewrite it and rewrite it, and they keep right on doing it without ever stopping to find out if the first fellow was telling the truth or not."

"You get a real feeling of this country and the people in it when you're on a train...and the further you get away from that, the worse off you are, the worse off the country is. The easier it gets for the stuffed shirts and the counterfeits and the fellas from Madison Avenue to put it over on the people. Those people are more interested in selling the people something than they are in informing them about the issues."

Man, Harry sure had these guys pegged!

[benburch]

1. Amen to Plain Speaking.

One of the best books I have ever read.

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Oh, for a no-holds-barred, buck-stops-here

hero like Harry. It seems they threw away the mold and he was the last of a kind.

I don't believe there's been a truth-teller like him since. He has choices to answer for (e.g. Hiroshima & Nagasaki), but he'd never duck the responsibility or whine about the flack. SG

[Reader Rabbit]

3. Yup

Whether you agreed with the man or not, no one could say that he was dishonest or a waffler. They really broke the mold with Harry. God, I wish the Dems would take a few pages from his book!