brilliant but tough war in vietnam. where is this idea that the democrats in history haven t been willing to fight and try to be at least great patriotic leaders. gene? it s not grounded in history or fact, but in the political sense it has scored points for republican candidates for the last several elections. david is right, it won t score points in the next election. what fascinates me, i think there s another political dimension, that sort of steeliness you saw in that clip as he announced bin laden s demise. that takes away this sort of republican narrative that there s something wussy, effete. who was the i got you. the chicago committee that he wrings his hand, can t be decisive. right, right. here is the president today. this is a keeper for people that care about what we have to do in this world. here is the president at ft.
because it was tough. johnson fought maybe not brilliant but tough war in vietnam. where is this idea that the democrats in history haven t been willing to fight and try to be at least great patriotic leaders. gene? it s not grounded in history or fact, but in the political sense it has scored points for republican candidates for the last several elections. david is right, it won t score points in the next election. what fascinates me, i think there s another political dimension, that sort of steeliness you saw in that clip as he announced bin laden s demise. that takes away this sort of republican narrative that there s something wussy, effete. who was the i got you. the chicago committee that he wrings his hand, can t be decisive. right, right. here is the president today.
an outlier poll. it s statistics, there s always an outlier. okay. beyond the polls, what barack obama did this week, this isn t why he did it, he took that old republican playing card, the weak on defense card. they played it in the 2008 campaign. they were going to play it all the way to 2012 campaign, gop. they can t do it anymore. are you weak on defense? i don t know, go ask i was going back in my brain on this today, thinking franklin roosevelt was a great war president. he picked the great generals, right front, europe first and then asia. he made the tough calls. truman comes in, drops two atom bombs on the japanese, ends the war, saves the lives of a lot of american servicemen. it was a brutal call but he calls it. then went to korea, which a lot of people wouldn t have done, because it was tough. johnson fought maybe not brilliant but tough war in vietnam. where is this idea that the democrats in history haven t been willing to fight and try to be at least great p