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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DavesM who wrote (267876)	6/28/2002 12:17:20 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Being a demagogue painting with a broad brush means you'll paint a few pickets of the fence correctly, even though you make a mess of the fence and should be ashamed of the job. Were he an honest investigator, it would have been less an embrassment to the Republicans and the country. As a shill for Hoover he only succeeded in becoming the poster boy for phony anti-communist extremists. As was the original dirty trickster that was his contemporary: "As for charges that there were Communists working for the U.S. government in Washington, Nixon could honestly tell voters he had worked to expose such Communists. No American was more responsible for the conviction of accused spy Alger Hiss than was Dick Nixon." msys.net "This campaign was one of the dirtiest in American history, and is notable for showing the first example of Nixon's willingness to use political "dirty tricks." The key campaign item was a paper flyer called the pink sheet, so called not only for the color of the paper, but also for its content. On the sheet, Nixon compared the voting record of Helen Douglas with that of Vito Marcantonio, noted Communist who had been elected on an American Labor Party ticket. The sheet pointed out that Douglas and Marcantonio voted alike on 354 roll calls. The conclusion? There was a dangerous "Douglas-Marcantonio Axis," loyal to Communism, that must be stopped. "It was true that both Marcantonio and Douglas had opposed formation of the House Un-American Activities Committee (or HUAC). Douglas apparently believed the charges of men like McCarthy and Nixon were based on hysteria, and she saw no need for a serious investigation. That vote came back to haunt her in the 1950 campaign. But the real problem lay in explaining to voters why she and a known Communist had voted the same no less than 354 times. It was to no avail to explain that some of those votes were on the question of whether to convene at 9:00 a.m. the next day, or to declare October National Poultry Month."

To: DavesM who wrote (267876)	6/28/2002 12:49:52 AM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 769667

I've read the same about McCarthy being Godfather to RFK's first child. I was born in 1954 so I can't remember the McCarthy era. He was close to the Kennedy family and all were reportedly anti-Semetic. I've seen McCarthy characterized in the best and worst ways. Certainly the eventual Cuban missile crisis gives some credibility to McCarthy's concerns. He was a product of the cold war and undoubtedly flawed. I believe the truth of the man lies somewhere between those who would condemn or praise him. Thanks for your post. * * *