One hundred years ago, incumbent President Woodrow Wilson used newfangled machines on wheels to get his message of peace across to the common man (not woman, of course; they were still unable to vote). While Europe had already entered WWI, Wilson remained popular with his campaign slogan “He kept us out of war.” He defeated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate, by a narrow margin. And then he sent our boys off to war the very next April.
You can’t always stay neutral, folks.
I Don't Get It 
In some ways that reminds me of Goldwater and Johnson in 1964. Goldwater was the “hawk” and LBJ the “dove”. What happened was people voted for the dove and got the hawk. Reality is one tough SOB.
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I don’t get politics but I still vote, the best I can, Kerbey! Today’s recent polls leave me puzzled! If we were going to vote for a tv personality, I would have picked Ted Danson from Cheers! Or maybe Norm! LOL
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I would happily vote for either of those two.
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Ted “The oceans will be gone by 1999” Danson? Vote NORM! 😀
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Good point.
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Wow, 100 years ago. Cool picture Kerbey. It solidly places so many changes in history.
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The more things change the more they stay the same? Politics seems an ugly business all around. And I’m an optimist! You find the best pictures, Kerbey 🙂 Never know what we’ll find here.
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Thanks!
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I’d love to know what neutral even means these days.
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True story TMHB. Neutral is a wishful state imagined and perpetuated by those who want us to believe it exists because to do so benefits the perpetuator..
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I couldn’t have said that any better. Even Switzerland is not neutral within that frame of context. Cheers !
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Cool pic.
/soapbox on/
Wilson was a progressive who campaigned as a conservative, then re-segregated Washington D.C., created farm subsidies, and greatly increased the power of the federal government.
He sent the U.S. into WWI due pressure resulting from the intercept of the Zimmerman Letter – The Kaiser urged Mexico to attack the U.S. to keep us busy and out of Europe. The Treaty of Versailles was lauded, but was ultimately worthless as Germany was allowed to re-arm for WWII.
/soapbox off/
😀
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