IS 2012 a REPLAY of 1948?

More from Life in the Land of the "Greater Fools"

In the Fall of 1948, my grandmother came by the house and "sneaked" me out to go with her down to "the tracks" (the railroad station) to hear Harry Truman.  He was "whistle-stopping" in the 1948 election against the "Money Boy" in that election, Thomas Dewey.  Mother died three years before and my grandmother and my dad were warring.  But Dad was away at work, and my older sister who was minding herself and the seven of us was no opposition.

I still carry a cameo memory of Harry, who was also stopping at home, in the next County.   My Dad's sister worked as a Domestic for the Truman family (until she found the Klan Robes, she later told me).

Aside from the cameo of Harry, I remember asking my grandmother, on the way home (everybody walked, because there were very few cars in those days) if she was planning to vote for Truman.

I thought I was going to get a whipping on that very spot.  Instead, she shook her finger at me and told me "In this country, you don't ask people how they're going to vote".  Even though she sent her children to college, she had a 6th grade education.

Fast forward to 2012 and the Yin-Yang Media (almost no one had T.V. in 1948), gives a vote tally, daily, before the Repoob Primary ends, and the election is months ahead.  They somehow "divine" the vote and blab it to potential voters constantly. "Mushrooming" at its extreme!(see earlier blog).  There were polls in those days, however.  Check out Wikipeida to see the Clifford K. Berryman cartoon showing Dewey watching Truman as he reviewed his poor poll numbers, and thinking: "what's the use of going through with the election".

Boehner (Speaker of the House) was on the tube with Charlie Rose this morning exclaiming "people vote their pocketbooks"  stealing for the Repoobs Harry's famous line from the 1948 election.  He's hoping this time around it will work for the Money Boy.  Remember, in 1948, the "Dixiecrats" were Democrats, while today they're Repoobs.

Dewey was vacuuous, hollow, given to platitudes, avoiding of substance on the issues.  Truman was fighting for Civil Rights, help for the poor, and struggling with a "do-nothing" Congress.  Today's Repoob candidate is coming off a Primary season wherein every racist nerve in the country has been yanked.

Harry pulled off a miracle! But he had a lesser-educated, and better informed public to appeal to.

There was common sense in those days, in spite of more overt racism.  Harry also had a public that had sacrificed and won a war that threatened the very existence of this country.  Today, not-so-much!

 "W" told us we had to go shopping and not worry about sacrificing for Repoob wars.   Squandering an inherited suplus, he ran the wars on credit from China.  He said he stopped looking for Bin Laden.

 The Repoob candidate (the new Dewey?) has five golden sons of war-fighting age that never got near the wars.

We can only pray that yet another miracle can be pulled off.

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