[Leica] The President, D-Day and History

[djphoto at vol.com (Dave Jenkins)]

For America, the war did indeed begin with Pearl Harbor. If it had been 
someone else speaking, you would not have intentionally misunderstood 
and would have allowed him that latitude. It's amazing that that "idiot" 
has somehow managed to turn the economy around (280K new jobs in May 
alone) and is accomplishing his objectives in Iraq step by step, in each 
case confounding his opponents and detractors.

There was once another president who was taking the same sort of 
battering from press and populace, and for many of the same reasons. He 
also was derided as yokel and a hick. But he went right on doing what he 
believed to be right, because he was more concerned about the welfare of 
the country than about being reelected. He also, by the way, was a 
Republican. The time was 140 years ago -- the summer of 1864. His name 
was Abraham Lincoln.

The idiocy is astonishing, indeed. But it isn't the president's idiocy 
that astonishes. It's the idiocy of the pseudo-intellectuals who 
pontificate about everything but have no workable solution for anything.

Dave Jenkins