DuBois harmless? Harmless is it to incite whole races of citizens to treason?

He'll get a lot of self-satisfied praise on the Boston, New York, Georgetown cocktail party circuit. That's what he lives for.

How stupid is David Hobson, the GOP sponsor of this resolution?

DuBois was not harmless because his nonsense permeated the civil rights movement, pushing out the far more effective and sensible approach of Booker T Washington. His was the kind of noxious crap imbibed by members of the Third World ruling classes at Oxbridge or the Ivy League which crippled those nations after the end of colonialism.

The GOP should take this on directly, should attack DuBois for being a Stalinist stooge and a racist lowlife, and force the Democrats to defend him.

If nothing else, it shows Kerry's use of DuBois during last year's election was not a campaign slip-up by some staffers and/or the senator in a pandering mode being unaware of his later admitted communist affiliations.

You can't be this wilfully obtuse if you're planning another presidential run in 2008 and don't really believe in what DuBois stood for down deep, because Kerry's had six months since the inital controversey to full vet the body of his writings. But the move makes sense if you're planning another presidentual run and want to co-opt Howard Dean's supporters in a race against Hillary, before Dean has a chance to reneg on his promise not to run and throws his hat into the ring.

Yup. Gotta get the loony bin wing of the party all tied up.

DuBois is a hero in Massachusetts. The University of Mass. Library is named for him.

"FDR, kept him in power and gave him half of Europe?"

No, Stalin had his own army, and was able to loot eastern and central Europe to finance it. Roosevelt was lucky to salvage Western Europe.

rs: we had a monopoly on the atom bomb and therefore could have dismantled the soviets tout suit.
roosevelt and truman and all their hired symps sold out europe to uncle joe.

cjm,

In 1945, we had no means of getting it to the Soviet Union, other than perhaps parcel post.

Bart:

that's still just as false as last week.

You believe we could have nuked Russia in 1945, I think that the Packers can still be competitive even if Brett Favre retires, we all need our delusions.

bart: too bad our b-29's only worked over water, and not over land :) the point is, we wouldn't have had to use them, we just had to let the russians know that if they didn't disarm then we would use the bombs.

The Russians lost 30 million soldiers and civilians, the notion of them losing another 30 million meant nothing to the leadership.

The Russians controlled the land we would have flown over, we controlled the water we did fly over. That makes all the difference.

We went over this in detail last week. I'm afraid we will have to leave Bart with his illusions on this, if no fact has intruded to date, none ever will.

Nukes? We didn't need no stinkin' nukes. Firebombing Moscow in August of 1945 would have settled things then and there. And what would Zhukov and Koniev done?

The issue with Stalin was that he was always more ruthless than any of his opponents or contemporaries. He never faced a determined adversary until 1947. From then, it was all downhill (even if Orrin thinks we were too nice).

I suppose Kerry's next pick will be Alger Hiss (who must also be popular in MA), or maybe even Kim Philby (got to cover the international nuance thing).

Or he could cut to the chase and choose Suslov (or Beria).

yes, the point is to demolish the leadership.

Thomas Sowell once wrote that, as a teenager, he worked as a delivery boy and frequently was sent to the Du Bois mansion. He always had to deliver goods through a back entrance, because Du Bois was always quite insistent that he never be seen around the riffraff.

The best and the brightest, The Lincoln brigade, will be next to be honored.

DuBois already has been honored by the USPS:

http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/DuBois.htm

Fellow Red Paul Robeson is on one too:

http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/display_products/productDetail.jsp?OID=4848903.