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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 09:06 PM
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what's Ted Rall saying here?
I don't really get it, but I know one thing, * is no Eisenhower:

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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 09:11 PM
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1. Adlai Stevenson? ... But then the moustache makes no sense
Edited on Sat Mar-13-04 09:29 PM by Bozita
Now I'm really lost.

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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 10:14 PM
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2. Maybe he's saying tha Bush is an easy target?
At least easier that real Republican presidents.
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DFLforever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 10:22 PM
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3. Bush is no Eisenhower
but you couldn't tell that from what a lot of Dems said they needed to go up against him in Nov.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 10:30 PM
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4. Truman is rumored to have made the mistake ...

of telling Ike he would stand down so Ike could run for President before Ike told Harry he was a Republican. Relations between them were chilly after this. I think this cartoon had Clark in mind.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 10:38 PM
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5. That was '52
This toon's a puzzler.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-14-04 02:14 AM
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6. Yeah, I thought I could parse it ...

with the mustached fellow as Dean Acheson, who after 52 would have been ready to throw darts at an Ike poster, but it's a stretch.
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