Comments on: Fox commentator favors assassination of Senator Obama http://www.zen.org/2008/05/26/fox-commentator-favors-assassination-of-senator-obama/ The thoughts, ideas, habits, and interests of a sub-culture. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:24:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: ERE http://www.zen.org/2008/05/26/fox-commentator-favors-assassination-of-senator-obama/#comment-239421 ERE Mon, 26 May 2008 16:33:16 +0000 http://www.zen.org/?p=693#comment-239421 <b>Obama said that he trusted Americans “to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did.“</b> But the truth is that FDR never spoke to the head of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler; the head of fascist Italy, Benito Mussolini, or the head of militarist Japan, Hideki Tojo. The president’s only policy, “was unconditional surrender.” <b> I have yet to hear most journalists or pundits remind Obama that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, even as their diplomats were on American soil to “talk peace.” As Pearl Harbor burned, our men and women died and America wept. But President Harry S. Truman took note and did not forget. He knew the meaning of “Peace through Strength.” </b> read more here http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/05/17/talking-to-our-enemies-history-lesson-for-obama/ Obama said that he trusted Americans “to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did.“

But the truth is that FDR never spoke to the head of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler; the head of fascist Italy, Benito Mussolini, or the head of militarist Japan, Hideki Tojo. The president’s only policy, “was unconditional surrender.”

I have yet to hear most journalists or pundits remind Obama that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, even as their diplomats were on American soil to “talk peace.” As Pearl Harbor burned, our men and women died and America wept. But President Harry S. Truman took note and did not forget. He knew the meaning of “Peace through Strength.”

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