On May 4, 8:40 pm, "Olin"
comcast.net> wrote:>> On May 4, 7:43 pm, JG
none.net> wrote:>>> On 4 May 2007 15:41:15 -0700, maxo
gmail.com> wrote:>
>>>>I really wish the Reagan
>>>>myth would just go away.
>
>>> Yeah. I don't get it. All I can figure is he's the best they've
>>> had since they can remember. Sad. Sickening.
>
>> They really really need to remember Eisenhower:
>
>> "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
>> whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex... Only
>> an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of
>> the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our
>> peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper
>> together."
>
> Perhaps the last real statesman to hold the office... unless one considers
> Jimmy Carter's performance OUT of the job.
>
> Eisenhower was heavily courted by both political parties to run for office,
> and he chose the republicans, but growing up thirty miles from where he was
> born (Denison, TX), and also knowing many from the Kansas where he was
> raised, I always thought he embodied the populist ideals I knew in my
> parents' and grandparents' "people."
>
> He was not without warts, but he basically determined what he thought to be
> the best option and pressed on, in a quiet and professional manner. And, he
> would be a true giant in today's republican crowd.
>
> 'Course, today's republican crowd likely would not allow him to join the
> club, for that military industrial complex remark, if for nothing else.
Oh he'd be roasted alive:
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go
and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. ... War
settles nothing"
OMG, He's WITH the terrorists!
"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."
Weak on defense!
and my personal fave:
"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 in our political history. There
is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these
things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background),
a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or
business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are
stupid."
Hey, he even did some token crap like put the "God" into the pledge of
allegiance! That's gotta be good for something. ;^)
>From my reading of history, it seems that he really cared about
governing, not pandering to a fringe base. As you say, he had wart
--
but I'll take warts over what the status quo is.
