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dmosh42

(2,217 posts)
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 09:23 AM Apr 2013

By todays standards, Eisenhower would have been a great Democrat!

I remember Ike, but I needed to be 21 to vote at that time, so missed out. But, looking back I can remember there were some big investigations pretty good tax rates, even for the millionaires, plenty of jobs for labor and strong fed building programs for the infrastructure. And I don't remember him wanting to change domestic programs like Soc. Sec.. (of course Medicare wasn't started yet.) Compare him to our modern Dems, and we can see how far adrift are the so-called left wing in this country.

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byeya

(2,842 posts)
1. Want to agree with you but Ike, I think, would have been a DLC Democrat. He had the malignant Dulles
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 09:36 AM
Apr 2013

brothers; "Engine" Charlie Wilson; and he didn't put up much of a fight to pick someone other than Nixon.
I even remember Oveta Culp Hobby(Hah) who wasn't so hot either.
More importantly, Ike didn't take a leadership role in shutting up McCarthy.
Ezra Taft Bensen?

But to end on a positive note, Ike was more like Clinton than any current Republican with any following.

 

truebluegreen

(9,033 posts)
11. And don't forget we have him to thank for the ouster of Mossadegh in Iran,
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 11:42 AM
Apr 2013

followed by the installment of the Shah and the subsequent radicalization of Islam. The CIA was only a few years old but already off to a bad, and prophetic, start.

For oil of course.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
3. There's really no way of knowing, is there? We're products of
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 09:41 AM
Apr 2013

our times, as well as heredity, and environment. That's why playing these anachronistic mental games is so pointless.

Little Star

(17,055 posts)
4. I doubt he could get elected today......
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 09:41 AM
Apr 2013

Repubs would say he is too liberal and Dems would say he was a DLCer.

Personally, I think he was a good president.

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
5. And Obama would be to the right of Nixon
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 09:45 AM
Apr 2013

Can anyone imagine Obama trying something like wage and price controls?

 

byeya

(2,842 posts)
6. Obama: Wage and price controls? Don't think so. Wouldn't come up with the EPA either
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 10:48 AM
Apr 2013

in my opinion.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
10. in what way? In what areas?
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 11:27 AM
Apr 2013

And they address such different issues.

I think the 2012 dem platform was pretty progressive. the problem is that the party needs to do more than put up a pretty platform.

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