re: #101 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I knew this when he and his cronies started attacking General Clapper as an Obama loyalist. Clapper didn’t join the executive branch with Obama. What has happened here is basically if Joe McCarthy somehow became President in 1952 and went after people like George Marshall.

Didn’t McCarthy and his enablers go after Marshall anyway? ISTR that a consistent theme of the Red-baiters in that era was that Marshall had “sold out” (Europe? China? Somebody?) to the Communists because Yalta or whatever. It was, I think, considered whackaloon BS even at the time: but fortunately, Eisenhower was in charge (Ike was a devoted protege of Marshall’s, and HATED the red-baiter faction of the GOP since they had pushed him to make a speech critical of the then-SoS in the ‘52 campaign)…