A Day Of Infamy; Harry Reid's Strawman

I find it sad how the attack of Pearl Harbor is getting little coverage in the press. Here's FDR given his famous "A day of infamy" speech - you can listen to it at the bottom of the page. The power of his rhetoric, so rich in passion and American glory, was palpable - even to me 68 years later.

Then go and listen to the limp empty rhetoric of the present Commander-in-Chief. He sounded like he was giving a lecture in class. I get the distinct feeling the cadets in attendance weren't impressed.

I haven't heard, incidentally, Obama mention the attack today.Though some may want to be reminded of this.

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Majority Leader, Senator Harry Reid either knows nothing of his own country's political history or he's a deliberate liar. He's more likely setting up a strawman to deflect attention away from the reform plan.

Nonetheless, it's quite astonishing really. I thought it was in fact the democrats who supported slavery and were against civil rights legislation. What blows my mind is how some people on the threads say things like, "he's telling like it is." Holy moly, jesus bejesus, what the heck is going on in American history classes?

Is Reid the only one? Of course not. Both parties engage in this sort of stuff. However, Politico's example they selected to draw such an analogy doesn't wash.

On Sunday, NRSC Chairman John Cornyn (R-Texas) invoked Stalin-era Soviet prison to describe Reid's reform plan on Fox News. "It will limit people's choices to, in many cases, to a government-run program like Medicaid which is essentially a health care gulag, because people will not have any choices but to take that poorly performing government plan," he said.

This is an opinion. It makes no attempt to consult history in an effort to belittle the Democrats. Reid, a high ranking politician, chose to confuse a historical fact that can easily be verified.

Politico should have found a Republican who attacked history as Reid did.

The party that once housed great leaders like FDR, Truman, Kennedy and LBJ is now the party of nothingness.