Even LA Times joins Bush campaign today: Brownstein on W and Truman

[DeepModem Mom]

NEWS ANALYSIS
Bush Invokes Truman in Promoting Global Strategy
Foreign policy overhaul strikes a chord with voters. Critics say vision falls short of reality.

By Ronald Brownstein, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — President Bush, in his drive to rebuild support for the war in Iraq, appears to have drafted an unlikely ally: Harry S. Truman.

As he frames the nation's foreign policy debate in sweeping terms, Bush is arguing that like President Truman after World War II, he is restructuring America's national security strategy to meet a transcendent new threat.

In his speech last week accepting the Republican presidential nomination, Bush compared his effort to democratize Iraq to Truman's commitment to building a democratic Germany after World War II.

Administration officials and conservative intellectuals also have asserted that Bush's responses to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — such as his emphasis on preemptive action against potential threats to the U.S. — represented the most fundamental rethinking of American foreign policy goals and tactics since Truman's era....

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Democrats consider it outrageous for Bush to reach for Truman's mantle, given the strains the Iraq war and other White House decisions have placed on the system of collective security Truman helped to construct....

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-assess8sep08,1,3327565.story?coll=la-home-politics

[DebJ]

1. Howard Dean said Truman was his favorite president. I'd

love to hear Howard's responses to this.

[incapsulated]

2. Invoking Truman, FDR...

Who's next J..F...K? Nah, better not go there, eh?

What a fucking insult.

[amber dog democrat]

3. Bush is in league with Satan

He can style him self as another Geroge Washington for all I care.
He still needs to go. I don't see this helping him much.

[KharmaTrain]

4. Quoting Truman Really Goes Over Big With The Freepers...

Isn't this the guy who lost the Cold War and integrated the military? Isn't he the one who didn't let McArthur turn China into a nuclear maelstrom? Recognized Israel? Headed the US delegation to the UN and then assisted in helping them set up shop in NYC?

Yeah, those wingnuts love HST...almost as much as Carter and Clinton.

Maybe this boy should quote pResidents he's more alike: Harding, Hoover, Rutherford B. Hayes (who lost the popular vote, too and was a one termer)...

[Crunchy Frog]

5. He's Harry S. Truman,

Winston Churchill, and Jesus Christ, all wrapped into one. What an amazing guy.:crazy:

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

6. Comparing himself to Truman?

Looks like Babs didn''t teach little shrubbie that it is considered disrespectful to speak ill of the deceased.