Wednesday, December 1, 2010

The Last Reasonable Republican President

"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 not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...."
- Dwight D Eisenhower 1952
Posted by csm at 9:05 PM
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7 comments:

Clear Thinker said...

Slick

Ike was attempting to get the SU to understand what the arms race was costing. This was not in condemnation of the US. Read the speech Einstein.

Of course when they did not cooperate what did he do? The man was a realist and a good one.

December 2, 2010 at 5:59 PM
BAWDYSCOT said...

http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/ike_chance_for_peace.html

You'll find the complete speech here, csm. I think Thinker has gotten you on this one, he is 100% correct. Though that doesn't make your original thought(Reasonable Republican President)false.


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December 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM
csm said...

So why would anyone immediately think that I was lauding Ike for condemning the US. What the fuck!?!?!

And my "original thought" here is the only thought I professed on this particular post: Ike was the last reasonable Republican president.

January 3, 2011 at 4:34 PM
BAWDYSCOT said...

The last "reasonable" President was Thomas Jefferson, period.

January 7, 2011 at 12:05 PM
BAWDYSCOT said...

Then again, maybe Madison.

January 7, 2011 at 12:06 PM
csm said...

I s'pose you could make an argument that a reasonable man would not want to be president, huh?

January 17, 2011 at 1:34 PM
BAWDYSCOT said...

I have heard a similar argument. Why would we ever want to elect a President who is willing go through what we make them go through to become President? When the President was just the humble administrator of the laws Congress enacts as happened through the first hundred years of this Republic, this was a much smaller problem.

January 19, 2011 at 7:40 AM

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