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Skriven 2005-02-16 00:17:31 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 9121 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
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TIM RICHARDSON -> ED HULETT wrote:
 TR> On 02-15-05, ED HULETT said to TIM RICHARDSON:

 EH>> TIM RICHARDSON -> GEORGE LAGERGREN wrote:
 TR>> On 02-14-05, GEORGE LAGERGREN said to VERN HUMPHREY:

 GL>>> Quoting Vern Humphrey to Jeff Binkley        206  02-12-05  14:10

 JB>>> Democrats Ready to Follow Howard Dean's Lead

 VH>>> Right over the cliff! ;-)

 VH>>> Notice how nowhere in the article are the Democrats willing to discuss
 VH>>> WHY they lost -- on ISSUES.

 GL>>> The Dems have only won the WH from the Repubs only six times
 GL>>> in the past 150 years:

 GL>>> 1884 & 1892 -- Grover Cleveland.   Cleveland was a "honest"
 GL>>> person while his GOP opponent was a "crook".
 GL>>> 1912        -- Woodrow Wilson  (split in the GOP Party)
 GL>>> 1932        -- FDR  (bad economy)
 GL>>> 1960        -- JFK  (bad economy)
 GL>>> 1976        -- Carter  (bad economy)
 GL>>> 1992        -- Clinton (bad economy)

 GL>>> Note that the last four Dem wins were due to a bad economy.
 GL>>> So unless the economy is bad or the world affairs is a complete
 GL>>> mess in 2008, I doubt any Dem will win the WH in 2008.


 TR>> For at least three of those presidents, JFK, Carter and Clinton, the
 TR>> democrats were firmly in control of the entire Congress, and had
 TR> been for
 TR>> many years.

 EH>> Don't confuse him with facts, he'll have to get another pitcher of
 TR> magneti
 EH>> water.


 TR>  From about 1940 till 1961, the democrat Speaker of the House was Sam
Rayburn,
 TR> a democrat Congressman from Texas.


 TR> Rayburn was a real believer in `the New Deal', and one of Roosevelt's best
 TR> friends in the Congress.

 TR> The democrats were firmly in control of the Congress for over forty years.
 TR> And with the exception of Dwight Eisenhower for eight years in the
fifties,
 TR> controlled the presidency for the vast majority of those years.

 TR> You'd think, that if there was anything at all that was `good' about their
 TR> policies and agenda, the country would be running smooth as silk, the
economy
 TR> would be bullet proof, our standing in the world community would be rock
 TR> solid, there'd be no poor, joblessness, illness, or car theft.


 TR> In all the years the democrats ran the country unapposed, you'd think
America
 TR> would be in much better shape than it is today, if their way of doing
things
 TR> was any good at all.

That's what one would think anyway. Why are they complaining then? :-)

Ed

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