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We Will Never See This Again

Thought you'd enjoy this!
It's one you want your Children and Grandchildren to read
. They won't believe this happened, but it DID.Harry & Bess(This seems unreal.)









I say dig him up and clone him!

Enjoy life now -- it has an expiration date!


Anonymous said...

Harry Truman was a different kind of President.

Yup. He was a Democrat who (most) Republicans don't instinctively hate with the fire of a thousand suns.

At least not now, in hindsight.


I love Harry, but this isn't something exclusive to him. All Presidents pay for their own food (and toiletries, and other living expenses at the White House) out of their own salaries. They also are required to reimburse the government for personal travel at a set government rate.


First, this isn't a modern phenomenon. Second, I thought we were supposed to praise the wealthy as "job creators' and pillars of virtue? Finally, since when has this been a complaint? I don't recall much Republican crying about Cheney's massive fortune from his ties to Halliburton and the Iraq war.

Political offices are now for sale (cf. Illinois).

Political offices have always been for sale! This isn't new!

And if we are talking about corruption, how about shining a light at Texas, where Gov Perry has become a millionaire through politics and has set up a pretty blatant pay for play system with state contracts. You give to Perry, you get state money. You don't, you don't.

Anonymous said...

If you think the President's salary is cushy, how do you feel about the average CEO making over $11 million?

ferschitz said...

What a bunch of senseless conservative claptrap. The think tank certainly doesn't a word of this, but it's sent forth to conservatives to make them feel... ??? what I don't know.

I thought Republicans hated any Democratic politician a priori, de rigueur & a priori. So NOW someone suggests to "dig up" Harry Truman & clone him?? I thought that goulish ritual was reserved solely for Sainted Ronnie of the Raygunz! Nancita will not be amused....

buncha hoo-haaa

Zeno said...

Right-wingers are industrious little suckers, always laying claim to that which they used to hate. My right-wing father quite sincerely told me that John F. Kennedy was a "conservative" -- although the right-wing enjoyed denouncing him as an effete leftist when he was in office.

Thx 4 Fish said...

Its like there is a big wheel of "conservative attributes" somewhere. Each day some think tank flunky spins the wheel and one day it landed on "Thriftiness." Tomorrow it may land "Gov't Workers are Bloodsuckers," or "Gov't Screws Up Everything." But for today they love a thrifty career politician who never had a job in the 'real world'.

gruaud said...

All commenters did great; but I especially wanted to give a shout-out to Thx 4 Fish: Nice with the 'wheel of bullshit' analogy.

Tomorrow's spin of the wheel will be equally facile and stupid.

Zeno said...

For some reason they forgot to mention that Harry Truman was the first president to seriously strive for national health care. Surely that's one of the reasons they admire him so!

Hooray4US said...

I guess conservatives also admire GWH Bush & GW Bush for their thriftiness and how they live on a very low income after their tenure was over... oh, nevermind...

blainy said...

I know! Let's all go watch "Ozzie & Harriet" and pretend that life really IS like that!!

Maybe we can dig up Ozzie & Harriett and clone them endlessly?? And all the clones will live just like it's the 1950s again... you know: when women & the dusky folks *knew their place.*

Mr_Creosote said...

Enjoy life now -- it has an expiration date!

Huh??? So why are so many otherwise healthy long lived and well-heeled seniors such dour, bile spitting curmudgeons who want to "take our country back" or at the very least, take "government hands off our medicare"?

Snarla said...

...as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him.
Um, what?

pws said...

If they dig him up and clone him, does that mean we get to have Harry Truman for President again?

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