Thought this might reinforce and...

[Boomyal]

... add some juice to what I've been saying ever since I came to this forum. I just happened to be reading an old American Heritage (July 1992), an article about Harry Truman. The paragraph below is quoted verbatim from an inset by Truman's co-biographer Thomas Fleming.<br /><br /> Truman was particularly irked by the "professional liberal" whom he distinguised from "real liberals" like himself. Professional liberals lived by slogans and saw American politics as an ideological war, which Truman considered to be alien to the Democratic party. In his lifetime the party was a sort of political melting pot in which conservative Southerners and moderate border-state men like Truman found common ground with Eastern liberals.<br />"Professional liberals are too arrogant to compromise", Truman said. "In my experience they were also very unpleasant people on a personal level. Behind their slogans about saving the world and sharing the wealth with the common man lurked a nasty hunger for power. They'd double-cross their own mothers to get it or keep it"<br /><br />Any of this ringing any bells?

 

[JB]

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I always liked Harry, except when he fired MacArthur. I have since seen the light of why Mac needed to be fired.<br /><br />He talked less like a politician than any politician in my memory. Said exactly what he thought and exactly what he meant.<br /><br />How refreshing that would be in this time.

 

[snapperbait]

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"too arrogant to compromise"...... Lot of that going around... <br /><br />Give em' hell, Harry!....

 

[POINTER94]

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Smack!!!!

 

[PW2]

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Every time you resort to labels, as if they mean anything at all, you lose me in boredom.

 

[crab bait]

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give 'em hell hillary..!!

 

[Skinnywater]

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Every time you resort to labels

Well if the label fits........ <br /><br />The problem is and it's becoming more evident, is that it's a given now days is that most Democrats are diehard liberals or a moderate with a purely personal agenda.<br />And Republicans are now confused moderates, disappointed conservatives, or a neo-con which is no better than a liberal.<br /><br />Truman was from the by-gone days where liberals were despised by Democrats and Republicans. <br />And a Neo-con was a Marxist on LSD.

 

[Boomyal]

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Originally posted by PW2:<br /> Every time you resort to labels, as if they mean anything at all, you lose me in boredom.

Not a very progressive response to one of your own PW.<br /><br />Hey, the labels were given by one of your own beloved Icons. I just displayed them to show that just because they are labels doesn't mean they have no validity.<br /><br />That's alright PW, you just keep on snoozin 'cause it doesn't seem to matter what you progressives do, you just keep losing at the polls.

 

[dogsdad]

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I was thinking about these things today as I was pulling weeds out front...the truth is, I am somewhat liberal myself. Where I see the problem is that some (maybe the "professional liberals") want to institutionalize it, and force everyone else to be "liberal," or generous with their own means, by decree. And that's where we get outside the boundaries of what [federal] government is supposed to do constitutionally. And that is where I draw my line. A gift does great things, but only when given with love and a willing heart.<br /><br />And this is why I will stand to the so-called "far right" when election day comes.<br /><br /><br />-dd-

 

[Boomyal]

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Originally posted by dogsdad:<br /> I was thinking about these things today as I was pulling weeds out front...the truth is, I am somewhat liberal myself. Where I see the problem is that some (maybe the "professional liberals") want to institutionalize it, and force everyone else to be "liberal," or generous with their own means, by decree. And that's where we get outside the boundaries of what [federal] government is supposed to do constitutionally. And that is where I draw my line. A gift does great things, but only when given with love and a willing heart.<br /><br />And this is why I will stand to the so-called "far right" when election day comes.<br /><br /><br />-dd-

Bingo DD. The question is why a liberal will not rest until he can compell those around him to do it all corporately. Anybody remember Al Gores disclosed contribution amount. Hmmmmm? When they don't put their money where their mouth is one begins to think there might be another motive. Excuse me if I quote someone we have all recently been reintroduced to;<br /><br /> "Behind their slogans about saving the world and sharing the wealth with the common man lurked a nasty hunger for power. They'd double-cross their own mothers to get it or keep it"<br />