tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post335696284346645643..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-57125891271895039222011-01-23T02:11:53.230-05:002011-01-23T02:11:53.230-05:00@indyernie -- I used to say to students during the mid-2000s to never let the Democratic Party say they are a party of peace because of their Presidential history of leading the country into the Korean and Vietnam wars, almost half-jokingly, but with some truth to the statement. <br /><br />However, I don&#39;t think your inclusion of World War II being started by Democrats is warranted, and it shows a bad knowledge of history on your part; perhaps you should not denegrate others about not knowing history. The US would have gotten involved in World War II eventually, also, had the Republican Wendell Willkie won the presidency. Even though he accused Roosevelt of wanting to go to war, he was not really an isolationist and later helped Roosevelt in support of Lend-Lease, the thawing of isolationism in the lead-up to war, and eventually with the war effort itself.<br /><br />Sure, Willkie was a former Democrat, but the Republicans knew that (and knew he was leaning towards helping the British as they were alone in World War II) when they nominated him. If they would have nominated the isolationists Taft or Dewey and one of them had won, the US still would have entered the war at some point (I believe) because the Japanese had been spoiling for a fight for years (hell, Theodore Roosevelt said, some 30 years earlier, they&#39;d attack the US at some point in the future), and so had Hitler. <br /><br />So, I guess if you could, indyernie, could you tell me how the US would not have entered World War II at all had a Republican been president as you seem to imply?Bradleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15448573623705973306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-14548754665659960422011-01-22T10:23:04.138-05:002011-01-22T10:23:04.138-05:00@ Cato, can you tell me which Presidents got us in to WWII and Viet Nam and which President got us out of Viet Nam?<br />Our history isn&#39;t just fifteen years old. You need to think before you type.indyerniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03817373902728915873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-400341006147521962011-01-22T10:00:18.340-05:002011-01-22T10:00:18.340-05:00Republicans lied us into two wars; they cheer a brutal police state that destroys our freedoms; they are superstitious, authoritarian, anti-intellectual and mean.<br /><br />Olbermann opposed this evil, making us all freer, if only just a bit.<br /><br />This country would be better off with more Olbermann and less Fox.Catohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03341628086158209539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-17625674997328493622011-01-22T09:32:14.330-05:002011-01-22T09:32:14.330-05:00Ain&#39;t he one of those hate-billies, a vitriol-hick.Pete Boggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12948800585492289789noreply@blogger.com