Then and now

Every once in a while, it becomes a worthwhile exercise to compare democrats across the years

Howard Dean:

I think George Bush is the most incompetent president we've had in our lifetime. I mean, nobody would accuse President Nixon of being incompetent.

Harry Truman:

A President cannot always be popular.

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Seymour Hersh:

I will tell you – there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.”

Ernie Pyle (WW2):

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

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John Kerry:

"I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown and lead to the perpetuation of war crimes"
education, if you make the most of it, and you study hard, and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq

Andrew Jackson:

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

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Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi:

We just killed the Patriot Act

Sam Rayburn (long term dem speaker of the house)

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

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Rahm Emanuel (chair of the Dem House Election Committee):

"At the right time, we will have a position."

Dean Acheson:
The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured