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In reply to the discussion: Huckabee compares Trump to Churchill [View all]paleotn
(18,804 posts)23. Ironically,
the right wing, such as Fred Koch and Prescott Bush, did profitable business WITH the Nazis. Right wing America was staunchly isolationist and in some cases mildly pro-Nazis. Congress gave FDR fits about aid to Britain, particularly the Republicans. It was the American left that was staunchly anti-Nazi and had it not been for preparations advocated by FDR, we would have been even more woefully unprepared than we were.
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Perhaps so, never heard Oldman (not Oldham) ... is non-liberal ... unlike Sinise, who's a Con ...
mr_lebowski
Dec 2017
#86
I saw it and I didn't think it was a "wargasm." I liked it and Gary Oldham was just
CTyankee
Dec 2017
#88
The ignorance and arrogance makes me so ashamed as an American. Also livid!
appalachiablue
Dec 2017
#19
You know how we've been told the British government doesn't want Prince Harry to invite the Obamas
dflprincess
Dec 2017
#60
Yes, I read the story here. So the Brit. govt.'s issue is no more- thank heaven.
appalachiablue
Dec 2017
#61
That your remarks were flip crossed my mind, but I mostly like to look on the sane, bright side.
appalachiablue
Dec 2017
#67
Well, definitely the greatest president ever with the exception of the late great Abraham Lincoln
dalton99a
Dec 2017
#22
How dare this brain dead two bit preacher and con man smear Churchill's name with a comparison
geretogo
Dec 2017
#31
Nothing beats a New Testament preacher fawning over the guy that can't think of anything he needs...
czarjak
Dec 2017
#43
God where do they come up with these delusions? Yeah right Mike just like Winston.
YOHABLO
Dec 2017
#45
Churchill was a tyrant/foreign power occupier to the people of Ireland and India,to say the least!
dubyadiprecession
Dec 2017
#58
You also had some very fine people on both sides, (talking about nazis/Charlottesville) - Trump
Solly Mack
Dec 2017
#70