Eisenhower is my kind of Republican!

[Chimpanzee]

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Eric J in MN]

1. There used to a belief in social progress.

As society develops, it better serves the interests of all, including providing necessities to the most vulnerable.

[bryant69]

2. Eisenhower was invited by both parties to run as president

if memory serves. On the otehr hand Nixon was his vice-President.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[scarlett1]

13. Eisenhower owed two favors

to two people who helped him in California
one was Richard Nixon - who he named as Veep Candidate and became Veep
The other was Earl Warren who he named as the Chief Justice of the United States.
Now image how different our Country would have been if Warren had been Veep and Nixon as Chief Justice.

[coloradodem2005]

3. A far cry from the idiots today who say that...

...we need to quit investing in wasteful social programs and dump all our money in the military industrial complex. Well, we have been doing that and guess what. We have the biggest budget deficits ever.

Eisenhower was a good man. The last good Republican president.

[aquart]

4. Eisenhower was not the darling you think.

And he let the Dulles brothers pretty much sow the seeds for our current damnation.

[Chimpanzee]

5. I'd take him over dumbass any day of the week!

[mitchum]

16. You are absolutely correct...

particularly about the Dulles brothers

[Goathead]

6. We should claim Ike as one of our own

He also warned of the threat of the military industrial complex. Those most certainly are not freeper values. If Ike were alive and said that yesterday, he would be branded as a traitor by the freepers. Those stupid ignorant fucks, they are destroying this country.

[MadHound]

11. Yeah, but the reason Ike knew of the dangers of the MIC,

Is because he encouraged it to grow. It was because of his urging, and his fascination with all things military that we created a permanent standing army that was always on war time footing, even when we were at peace. The Cold War, though not started by Ike, increased military spending exponentially under his tenure.

Just because Ike gave a nice going away speech preaching peace(probably as a concession to his guilty conscience) doesn't mean we should give the man a pass. He was one of the most virulent war hawks in our nation's history.

[TaleWgnDg]

7. "I like Ike?" Never. Nope. Nada. Zed. Zero. No way. . .

although he did give America a great interstate highway system; which, in turn, opened up the floodgates of Detroit placing one car in everyone's driveway/garage across America . . . which, in turn, meant that we would be sucking the teat of mideast oil for decades too. Plus gas emissions that choke inner cities giving us all that well-pronounced "orange sky" appeal . . .

Yeah. I was around when Ike ran against Adlai. I voted for Adlai. And never regretted it.



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[onager]

8. Ike didn't practice what he preached

His Secretary Of Defense was "Engine Charley" Wilson, the president of General Motors. You couldn't find a better example of an unholy alliance between big industry and big government.

Wilson became most (in)famous for a remark during his confirmation hearing: "I always thought that what was good for America was good for General Motors. And vice versa."

[oscar111]

9. who ran against ike both times? Ike began Reaganomics cuts in tax

ike a mixed bag, like clinton.

truman's tax structure had a top rate of ninety percent... the best.. all worse since.. so ike must have begun the horrid cuts that began reaganomics by other names. Now, top rate is a pathetic one third of that ninety. Pathetic.

Friends, the tax pool is the key to our programs . Without it, they vanish. Ike began the vanishing. His ideas would have ended up with us at peace, but with the extreme poverty we see today. 100 000/yr dead from homelessness' heat, cold, and rat bites.

who ran against him both times?

[TaleWgnDg]

12. Adlai Stevenson . . .

http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/adlaistevenson.html




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[KSAtheist]

18. This begs the question:

Do you have a car?

[TaleWgnDg]

19. LOL . . . n/t

[Union Thug]

10. Is this quote genuine or farbed up?

This came across a mailing list I'm on. I've never heard of it before. Can anyone authenticate? I suspect it's fake, but thought I'd throw it out...

"Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H.L. Hunt and a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

President Dwight Eisenhower, writing to his brother, Edgar, in May 1956.

[scarlett1]

14. Eisenhower said:

"We have never stopped sin by passing Law"

[mitchum]

15. Mine too...dead

[fryguy]

17. not to mention he knew what it meant to go to war

unlike the chicken-hawk we have running the show now

[ieoeja]

20. Dead?