if i was the kind of independent flibberdigibbet who hadn't made up my mind between obama & rmoney yet, this is exactly the kind of information i would never be able to understand.
@9 Welcome to "Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes" politicking.
@10 He is aiming at the hearts and guts of conservative voters, no facts (or brains) required. See fox news, wallstreet journal etc, you know, the people that keeps branding him as a 'serious thinker'.
@14 - By today's standards, Eisenhower was a Pinko-Commie who never would've been elected. All that talk of bewaring the military-industrial complex:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
A bankrupted economy, defense budget that is higher than the next twenty countries combined, and half a dozen wars later...
@14
Eisenhower was not honest, he just didn't have a far-right agenda. He got into office on his military WWII creds (like Grant), avoided scandal (even though he had a decades-long affair), and built the Interstate Highway System for the military, for the then-astronomical cost of $110 billion and wedded us to auto instead of rail transportation at the behest of GM forever.
Have you ever met an italics-faced liar?
Or even a sans serif one...
Yes, hypocrisy...everywhere. Even in SROTU's den.
Or was it a {\bf I WANT STIMULUS} kind of thing?
@10 He is aiming at the hearts and guts of conservative voters, no facts (or brains) required. See fox news, wallstreet journal etc, you know, the people that keeps branding him as a 'serious thinker'.
No. It's more like he doesn't care.
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
A bankrupted economy, defense budget that is higher than the next twenty countries combined, and half a dozen wars later...
Now surely he's not the only Republican you've ever encountered.
Eisenhower was not honest, he just didn't have a far-right agenda. He got into office on his military WWII creds (like Grant), avoided scandal (even though he had a decades-long affair), and built the Interstate Highway System for the military, for the then-astronomical cost of $110 billion and wedded us to auto instead of rail transportation at the behest of GM forever.