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Rex

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35. I say that.

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 10:57 PM

Mar 2016

Glad to know so many people do too. Brown & Root and companies like them were ready to devour up the middle class. Some in this country like to pretend the highest power in the land is the POTUS...not even close.

Some also accept the fact that Reagan turned this country into a full blown plutocracy and neither parties will admit to it. I think the proof is in the pudding.

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"Humanity hanging on a cross of iron" [View all] kpete Mar 2016 OP

Eisenhower was prophetic. n/t Merryland Mar 2016 #1

I guess he almost ran as a Dem... Wounded Bear Mar 2016 #3

IKE is responsible for resurrecting the republican party StoneCarver Mar 2016 #25

When Nixon's Generation of Republicans went it was all over rpannier Mar 2016 #40

Ike was way to the left of most Dems in gov't today lagomorph777 Mar 2016 #53

Remember, Eisenhower was the last INDEPENDENT who became President. DrBulldog Mar 2016 #43

Imagine a modern Repub saying that... First Speaker Mar 2016 #2

Eisenhower was a commie hippie. Frank Cannon Mar 2016 #4

A regular peacenik, he was Cirque du So-What Mar 2016 #6

Pink and ready to throw the bucket. Octafish Mar 2016 #8

That is the Ike I remember. But he was a war hero so they jwirr Mar 2016 #13

Eisenhower sulphurdunn Mar 2016 #22

After many personal talks with Dr. Herbert York WHEN CRABS ROAR Mar 2016 #26

The MIC was inevitable sulphurdunn Mar 2016 #28

I guess he never heard about nuclear winter Elmer S. E. Dump Mar 2016 #39

And it was believed that being in a Fall-Out basement would save you from the blast. Then in a few DhhD Mar 2016 #49

Conventional war is one thing, nuclear another. malthaussen Mar 2016 #45

Definitely not a real man like John Wayne. Frank Cannon Mar 2016 #9

Yes and when John Wayne died... Human101948 Mar 2016 #10

Frank Plucketeer Mar 2016 #21

Heinlein whimpered that he was a "political general" MisterP Mar 2016 #20

The John Birch Society really thought that was true. pampango Mar 2016 #48

It is infuriating to see how low the Republican Party has sunk Xipe Totec Mar 2016 #5

Stop the manufacture of weapons, it is the biggest waste of natural resources in the world. Dont call me Shirley Mar 2016 #7

�The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings� ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky n/t jtuck004 Mar 2016 #11

Thom Hartmann fairly often plays this wonderful speech and others, Akamai Mar 2016 #12

It seems like that last paragraph is the Political Platform of the Dominionist Ted Cruz DhhD Mar 2016 #50

Scary platform, bringing on the End Times. Akamai Mar 2016 #56

Eisenhower saw personally the effects of war RoccoR5955 Mar 2016 #14

Errrr.... Lincoln.... scottie55 Mar 2016 #15

I still think, in the long run RoccoR5955 Mar 2016 #16

Eisenhower did not put forward the Interstate Highway System to create "jobs". former9thward Mar 2016 #17

Exactly eom DebbieCDC Mar 2016 #38

Common myth. A HERETIC I AM Mar 2016 #41

Your link seems to disagree with you. former9thward Mar 2016 #55

don't mean to be snarky... paleotn Mar 2016 #46

The poster I replied to implied Eisenhower did it to create jobs. former9thward Mar 2016 #54

Hey Mr. Kpete . . You are correct, FairWinds Mar 2016 #18

the "Iron Cross" AlbertCat Mar 2016 #19

In other words . . . Major Hogwash Mar 2016 #27

I believe it far more an echo of W.J. Bryan's speech at the Democratic Convention of 1896. . . Journeyman Mar 2016 #37

Agreed. The Beast is made of Iron and not of Gold (lesson in the Bible); the Iron Merchant Church DhhD Mar 2016 #52

That is a great quote. blackspade Mar 2016 #23

I wonder how any Democrat can rec this post and then vote for Kissinger/Reagan protege... whereisjustice Mar 2016 #24

Rachel did a good piece on this: bvar22 Mar 2016 #29

Eisenhower knew but zentrum Mar 2016 #30

They would have murdered him and thrown him in a dumpster, 5 stars et al Rex Mar 2016 #33

Agreed. And zentrum Mar 2016 #34

I say that. Rex Mar 2016 #35

"Now it's just an oligarchy," said Jimmy Carter on the Thom Hartmann show on 7/28/15 Akamai Mar 2016 #51

The last real Republican before they lost their fucking minds. Rex Mar 2016 #31

War tiptonic Mar 2016 #32

K&R!!!!!! burrowowl Mar 2016 #36

No more war! War is a lie! War is a racket! Fast Walker 52 Mar 2016 #42

this is from the same guy that was authorizing U2 flights over the USSR 2 weeks before... Javaman Mar 2016 #44

Too bad the MIC's coup-de-etat in November 1963 worked, isn't it? PatrickforO Mar 2016 #47