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Even before President Barack Obama took office, critics from John McCain to Joe the Plumber were painting him red. Amid the push for health-care reform, the attacks have intensified. Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer charged that Obama planned to "indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda" in a Sept. 8 back-to-school speech...
...made U.S. headlines. Since the early 20th century, few issues have stirred more political alarm. Facing a series of massive worker strikes in the years after the start of the Russian Revolution, U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and rising Justice Department star J. Edgar Hoover took on a "red menace" of radicals, anarchists and Bolsheviks. By 1920, the pair had arrested up to 10,000 alleged subversives. (Most cases were thrown out.) With the onset of the Cold War, fears flared anew. Indeed, the term socialized medicine was coined in the late 1940s by critics of President Harry Truman...
...Red-baiting continued after the fall of the Soviet Union, albeit with its ardor considerably cooled. George H.W. Bush attacked Bill Clinton during the 1992 campaign for visiting Moscow as a student, and an old photo of John Kerry with the socialist President of Nicaragua haunted him in 2004. All of which means Obama might have to get used to this...
Meanwhile, al-Qaeda would return on a red carpet. "All these fancy new villas in Kabul where the diplomats and the rich businessmen live? They'll go to al-Qaeda families," says Mir, adding that a "defeat" of U.S.-led forces would be a boon to Muslim extremists worldwide, much as the Soviet army's retreat from Afghanistan was during the 1980s...
Raised in Chicago, Talbot attended Radcliffe College before joining the Red Cross in 1941. She met her husband in France during World War II, and they took over his father's Hingham, Mass., clothing store in 1945. Two years later, they renamed the store Talbots. Its red door would become the brand's signature...