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Group: nashville.general · Group Profile
Author: David MoffittDavid Moffitt Date: Sep 9, 2008 20:56
"Cyrus Afzali" wrote in message
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| On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 23:59:51 -0500, "David Moffitt"
| stomping-leftist-twits.org> wrote:
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| >"Cyrus Afzali" wrote in message
| >news:6t89c4pkk2h98unve896da17jd1sv2c8et@4ax.com...
| >| On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 22:10:05 -0500, "David Moffitt"
| >| stomping-leftist-twits.org> wrote:
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| >If you studied history you would find there were several relatively
unknowns
| >who were nominated for the VP position that turned out very well. Harry
| >Truman was one of them.
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| Man, this is so, so very much fun. OK, I'll play along because the
| comparison between Harry Truman and Sarah Palin just can't be passed
| up.
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| Sarah Palin's highest accomplishment thus far is a partial term as
| governor of the most thinly populated state in America. Conversely,
| Harry Truman helped organize what became the 2nd Regiment of Missouri
| Field Artillery, which was quickly called into Federal service as the
| 129th Field Artillery and sent to France. Truman was promoted to
| Captain and given command of the regiment's Battery D. He and his unit
| saw action in the Vosges, Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne campaigns.
| Truman joined the reserves after the war, rising eventually to the
| rank of colonel. He sought to return to active duty at the outbreak of
| World War II, but Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall
| declined his offer to serve.
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| Truman was elected in 1922, to be one of three judges of the Jackson
| County Court. Judge Truman whose duties were in fact administrative
| rather than judicial, built a reputation for honesty and efficiency in
| the management of county affairs. He was defeated for reelection in
| 1924, but won election as presiding judge in the Jackson County Court
| in 1926. He won reelection in 1930.
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| In 1934, Truman was elected to the United States Senate. He had
| significant roles in the passage into law of the Civil Aeronautics Act
| of 1938 and the Transportation Act of 1940. After being reelected in
| 1940, Truman gained national prominence as chairman of the Senate
| Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. This
| committee, which came to be called the Truman Committee, sought with
| considerable success to ensure that defense contractors delivered to
| the nation quality goods at fair prices.
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| When he became president, he undertook a number of initiatives to
| prevent Soviet expansion, which also took shape in the Korean War, the
| Marshall Plan and other initiatives. He also went further than any of
| his predecessors in the area of civil rights, ordering the armed
| forces desegrated.
%%%%%%%% You left out that until recently Truman had the lowest approval rating
in history.
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| Sarah Palin is being pimped out by the Republicans as a poster child
| for the religious right and she's sadly willing to go along. But hey,
| whatever floats her boat.
%%%%%%%% People like that fact that she is an outsider and not part of inside
the beltway good ole boy league.
"This just in: At 7:52 EDT this morning, "I have a social conscience" was
offically replaced as the catch-phrase of the self-righteous moral
superiority wiht the even-more ambiguous..."I'm going Green..."-- Mallard
Fillmore, May 9, 2007
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