OT For You Armchair War Hawks: Ike's Grandson Supported Kerry

<CITE:http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/093004U.shtml>

Why I Will Vote for John Kerry for President
By John Eisenhower
The Manchester Union Leader

Tuesday 28 September 2004

The Presidential election to be held this coming Nov. 2 will be one
of extraordinary importance to the future of our nation. The outcome
will determine whether this country will continue on the same path it
has followed for the last 3½ years or whether it will return to a set
of core domestic and foreign policy values that have been at the heart
of what has made this country great.

Now more than ever, we voters will have to make cool judgments,
unencumbered by habits of the past. Experts tell us that we tend to
vote as our parents did or as we "always have." We remained loyal to
party labels. We cannot afford that luxury in the election of 2004.
There are times when we must break with the past, and I believe this is
one of them.

As son of a Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is
automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years,
through the election of 2000, I was. With the current
administration's decision to invade Iraq unilaterally, however, I
changed my voter registration to independent, and barring some utterly
unforeseen development, I intend to vote for the Democratic
Presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry.

The fact is that today's "Republican" Party is one with which I
am totally unfamiliar. To me, the word "Republican" has always been
synonymous with the word "responsibility," which has meant limiting our
governmental obligations to those we can afford in human and financial
terms. Today's whopping budget deficit of some $440 billion does not
meet that criterion.

Responsibility used to be observed in foreign affairs. That has
meant respect for others. America, though recognized as the leader of
the community of nations, has always acted as a part of it, not as a
maverick separate from that community and at times insulting towards
it. Leadership involves setting a direction and building consensus, not
viewing other countries as practically devoid of significance. Recent
developments indicate that the current Republican Party leadership has
confused confident leadership with hubris and arrogance.

In the Middle East crisis of 1991, President George H.W. Bush
marshaled world opinion through the United Nations before employing
military force to free Kuwait from Saddam Hussein. Through negotiation
he arranged for the action to be financed by all the industrialized
nations, not just the United States. When Kuwait had been freed,
President George H. W. Bush stayed within the United Nations mandate,
aware of the dangers of occupying an entire nation.

Today many people are rightly concerned about our precious
individual freedoms, our privacy, the basis of our democracy. Of course
we must fight terrorism, but have we irresponsibly gone overboard in
doing so? I wonder. In 1960, President Eisenhower told the Republican
convention, "If ever we put any other value above (our) liberty, and
above principle, we shall lose both." I would appreciate hearing such
warnings from the Republican Party of today.

The Republican Party I used to know placed heavy emphasis on fiscal
responsibility, which included balancing the budget whenever the state
of the economy allowed it to do so. The Eisenhower administration
accomplished that difficult task three times during its eight years in
office. It did not attain that remarkable achievement by cutting taxes
for the rich. Republicans disliked taxes, of course, but the party
accepted them as a necessary means of keep the nation's financial
structure sound.

The Republicans used to be deeply concerned for the middle class
and small business. Today's Republican leadership, while not solely
accountable for the loss of American jobs, encourages it with its tax
code and heads us in the direction of a society of very rich and very
poor.

Sen. Kerry, in whom I am willing to place my trust, has
demonstrated that he is courageous, sober, competent, and concerned
with fighting the dangers associated with the widening socio-economic
gap in this country. I will vote for him enthusiastically.

I celebrate, along with other Americans, the diversity of opinion
in this country. But let it be based on careful thought. I urge
everyone, Republicans and Democrats alike, to avoid voting for a ticket
merely because it carries the label of the party of one's parents or
of our own ingrained habits.

John Eisenhower, son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, served on
the White House staff between October 1958 and the end of the
Eisenhower administration. From 1961 to 1964 he assisted his father in
writing "The White House Years," his Presidential memoirs. He served as
American ambassador to Belgium between 1969 and 1971. He is the author
of nine books, largely on military subjects.

The Vice President recently address the members of the Nation
Press Club, that was broadcast ton C-Span. He talked on the many
accomplishments of the administration. Largest number of jobs
and new jobs in are history. Highest GNP in our history, low
unemployment etc. During the question and answer period
questions from the press ranged from Korea, Iran, Iraq and its
part on the war on Islamic terrorist, the Uk memo, Gitmo, to the
growing economy and the Presidents plans to save SS.

He was brilliant. Answering all the questions in a positive
manner and on point. Including follow up questions. I have yet
to read any of that meeting in any newspaper or editorial.
Surprised? Not me. Thank goodness the American people have so
many sources of unfettered, news from sources like C-Span, that
the neo fascist on the evil left can not get away with dispensing
all of the false information they are spouting on those subjects
via the liberal media.


mike hunt

[email]IleneDover@mailcity.com[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
> The Vice President recently address the members of the Nation
> Press Club, that was broadcast ton C-Span. He talked on the many
> accomplishments of the administration. Largest number of jobs
> and new jobs in are history. Highest GNP in our history, low
> unemployment etc. During the question and answer period
> questions from the press ranged from Korea, Iran, Iraq and its
> part on the war on Islamic terrorist, the Uk memo, Gitmo, to the
> growing economy and the Presidents plans to save SS.
>
> He was brilliant. Answering all the questions in a positive
> manner and on point. Including follow up questions. I have yet
> to read any of that meeting in any newspaper or editorial.
> Surprised? Not me. Thank goodness the American people have so
> many sources of unfettered, news from sources like C-Span, that
> the neo fascist on the evil left can not get away with dispensing
> all of the false information they are spouting on those subjects
> via the liberal media.[/color]

...... and this could be *your* brain on republican.

FanJet wrote:[color=blue]
> [email]IleneDover@mailcity.com[/email] wrote:[color=green]
> > The Vice President recently address the members of the Nation
> > Press Club, that was broadcast ton C-Span. He talked on the many
> > accomplishments of the administration. Largest number of jobs
> > and new jobs in are history. Highest GNP in our history, low
> > unemployment etc. During the question and answer period
> > questions from the press ranged from Korea, Iran, Iraq and its
> > part on the war on Islamic terrorist, the Uk memo, Gitmo, to the
> > growing economy and the Presidents plans to save SS.
> >
> > He was brilliant. Answering all the questions in a positive
> > manner and on point. Including follow up questions. I have yet
> > to read any of that meeting in any newspaper or editorial.
> > Surprised? Not me. Thank goodness the American people have so
> > many sources of unfettered, news from sources like C-Span, that
> > the neo fascist on the evil left can not get away with dispensing
> > all of the false information they are spouting on those subjects
> > via the liberal media.[/color]
>
> ..... and this could be *your* brain on republican.
>[/color]

Mike is just plain lost, man. His post has nothing to do with
President Eisenhower's son supporting Kerry.

But, did you read it? One point Eisenhower makes is that today's
Republican party is unrecognizable... with its fiscal irresponsibility
and gargantuan growth of Federal Government.

In article <42B47F12.E078FF1A@mailcity.com>, [email]IleneDover@mailcity.com[/email]
wrote:
[color=blue]
> The Vice President recently address the members of the Nation
> Press Club, that was broadcast ton C-Span. He talked on the many
> accomplishments of the administration. Largest number of jobs
> and new jobs in are history. Highest GNP in our history, low
> unemployment etc. During the question and answer period
> questions from the press ranged from Korea, Iran, Iraq and its
> part on the war on Islamic terrorist, the Uk memo, Gitmo, to the
> growing economy and the Presidents plans to save SS.
>
> He was brilliant. Answering all the questions in a positive
> manner and on point. Including follow up questions. I have yet
> to read any of that meeting in any newspaper or editorial.
> Surprised? Not me. Thank goodness the American people have so
> many sources of unfettered, news from sources like C-Span, that
> the neo fascist on the evil left can not get away with dispensing
> all of the false information they are spouting on those subjects
> via the liberal media.
>
>
> mike hunt[/color]

Yes I agree, thanks to CSPAN which brings us the news uncolored.
--

The zenith of hypocrisy, democrats talking about too mush
government. I wonder what Zell Miller would have to say out
that? LOL



Little Richard wrote:[color=blue]
>
> FanJet wrote:[color=green]
> > [email]IleneDover@mailcity.com[/email] wrote:[color=darkred]
> > > The Vice President recently address the members of the Nation
> > > Press Club, that was broadcast ton C-Span. He talked on the many
> > > accomplishments of the administration. Largest number of jobs
> > > and new jobs in are history. Highest GNP in our history, low
> > > unemployment etc. During the question and answer period
> > > questions from the press ranged from Korea, Iran, Iraq and its
> > > part on the war on Islamic terrorist, the Uk memo, Gitmo, to the
> > > growing economy and the Presidents plans to save SS.
> > >
> > > He was brilliant. Answering all the questions in a positive
> > > manner and on point. Including follow up questions. I have yet
> > > to read any of that meeting in any newspaper or editorial.
> > > Surprised? Not me. Thank goodness the American people have so
> > > many sources of unfettered, news from sources like C-Span, that
> > > the neo fascist on the evil left can not get away with dispensing
> > > all of the false information they are spouting on those subjects
> > > via the liberal media.[/color]
> >[/color][/color]
One point Eisenhower makes is that today's[color=blue]
> Republican party is unrecognizable... with its fiscal irresponsibility
> and gargantuan growth of Federal Government.[/color]

[email]MelvinGibson@mailcity.com[/email] wrote the following on 6/18/2005 6:20 PM:[color=blue]
> The zenith of hypocrisy, democrats talking about too mush
> government. I wonder what Zell Miller would have to say out
> that? LOL[/color]

Theresh jusht too mush government. Too, too mush. Shomethingsh
gotta be done about it.

<MelvinGibson@mailcity.com> wrote in message
news:42B49E2E.5599933F@mailcity.com...[color=blue]
> The zenith of hypocrisy, democrats talking about too mush
> government. I wonder what Zell Miller would have to say out
> that? LOL
>
>[/color]

From the comfort of his K street office? He's a bad choice, man. He's sold
out.

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 21:00:45 -0500, "dh" <dh@teranews.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
><MelvinGibson@mailcity.com> wrote in message
>news:42B49E2E.5599933F@mailcity.com...[color=green]
>> The zenith of hypocrisy, democrats talking about too mush
>> government. I wonder what Zell Miller would have to say out
>> that? LOL
>>
>>[/color]
>
>From the comfort of his K street office? He's a bad choice, man. He's sold
>out.
>[/color]

Zell Miller did NOT sell out...

The Democratic party sold out to the left loonies....

The Democratice party will never regain control...if they stay with
the loony left stance...

America is not LEFT....

Go Dean, go...


--

Scott in Florida

Bill wrote:[color=blue]
> [email]MelvinGibson@mailcity.com[/email] wrote the following on 6/18/2005 6:20 PM:[color=green]
> > The zenith of hypocrisy, democrats talking about too mush
> > government. I wonder what Zell Miller would have to say out
> > that? LOL[/color]
>
> Theresh jusht too mush government. Too, too mush. Shomethingsh
> gotta be done about it.
>[/color]

You an alcoholic, Mike? You sound a bit like a pickle.

Scott in Florida wrote:[color=blue]
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 21:00:45 -0500, "dh" <dh@teranews.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
> ><MelvinGibson@mailcity.com> wrote in message
> >news:42B49E2E.5599933F@mailcity.com...[color=darkred]
> >> The zenith of hypocrisy, democrats talking about too mush
> >> government. I wonder what Zell Miller would have to say out
> >> that? LOL
> >>
> >>[/color]
> >
> >From the comfort of his K street office? He's a bad choice, man. He's sold
> >out.
> >[/color]
>
> Zell Miller did NOT sell out...
>
> The Democratic party sold out to the left loonies....
>[/color]

Scott, you are:

1. A troll, or
2. A fucking idiot, and
3. Definitely not a Republican
[color=blue]
> The Democratice party will never regain control...if they stay with
> the loony left stance...
>
> America is not LEFT....
>
> Go Dean, go...
>[/color]

Moron.

dh wrote:[color=blue]
> <MelvinGibson@mailcity.com> wrote in message
> news:42B49E2E.5599933F@mailcity.com...[color=green]
> > The zenith of hypocrisy, democrats talking about too mush
> > government. I wonder what Zell Miller would have to say out
> > that? LOL
> >
> >[/color]
>
> From the comfort of his K street office? He's a bad choice, man. He's sold
> out.
>[/color]

Hah! Yeah, he tossed George W. Bush's salad in the back room, now he's
spreading wide for the K Street lobbyists.

Zell Miller is the worst form of racist Dixiecrat.

No wonder folks like Scott and Dbu support him.

Want some fuckin watermelon, dickheads?

Now cut that out. Why are you signing your posts with one
of Dizzys nom de plums? LOL




Little Richard wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Scott in Florida wrote:[color=green]
> > On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 21:00:45 -0500, "dh" <dh@teranews.com> wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> > ><MelvinGibson@mailcity.com> wrote in message
> > >news:42B49E2E.5599933F@mailcity.com...
> > >> The zenith of hypocrisy, democrats talking about too mush
> > >> government. I wonder what Zell Miller would have to say out
> > >> that? LOL
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >From the comfort of his K street office? He's a bad choice, man. He's sold
> > >out.
> > >[/color]
> >
> > Zell Miller did NOT sell out...
> >
> > The Democratic party sold out to the left loonies....
> >[/color][/color]
[color=blue][color=green]
> > The Democratice party will never regain control...if they stay with
> > the loony left stance...
> >
> > America is not LEFT....
> >
> > Go Dean, go...
> >[/color]
>
> Scott, you are:
>
> 1. A troll, or
> 2. A fucking idiot, and
> 3. Definitely not a Republican[color=green]
> >[/color][/color]
[color=blue]
> Moron.[/color]

First our friend little richard must stoop to vulgarities as he
runs of ot facts to support his postings then he drops down to
personal attacks now he has hit bottom with racial slurs. What
an excuse for a man he must be, so sad


mike hunt



Little Richard wrote:[color=blue]
>
>[/color]
[color=blue]
>
> Want some fuckin watermelon, dickheads?[/color]