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Liberals <strong>Who</strong> Hate America<br />

That's me with John Glenn on <strong>the</strong> second of three USO tours I've done because I hate America.<br />

We had just choppered onto <strong>the</strong> deck of <strong>the</strong> USS Harry Truman, named for our thirtythird<br />

president, a liberal America-hater of <strong>the</strong> worst sort. Can you tell which of us is more<br />

accustomed to wearing flight gear?<br />

There's just one reference to Truman in Slander: "Truman got <strong>the</strong> country into Korea<br />

and couldn't get us out for two and half years." That's it. No Truman Doctrine, no Marshall<br />

Plan, no NATO.<br />

John F. Kennedy receives a similarly fleeting mention. "Kennedy got <strong>the</strong> country into<br />

a war in Vietnam after <strong>the</strong> disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion and <strong>the</strong>n sat passively by while <strong>the</strong><br />

Russians built <strong>the</strong> Berlin Wall."<br />

FDR gets whacked around a bit because he "spent eight years failing to get <strong>the</strong> country<br />

out of <strong>the</strong> Depression but <strong>the</strong>n had <strong>the</strong> skull and foresight to allow <strong>the</strong> nation to be taken<br />

by surprise at Pearl Harbor." That's all we get on Roosevelt except that he called Stalin "Uncle<br />

Joe."<br />

She's tough on us Democrats and "<strong>the</strong>ir [our] beloved Soviet Union."<br />

Ronald Reagan, however, "single-handedly won <strong>the</strong> Cold War." In fact, Reagan "won<br />

<strong>the</strong> Cold War" on page 33 (<strong>the</strong> same page on which Bush graduated from Yale College and

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