Susan Eisenhower: Republican for Obama

[Hope And Change]

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Susan Eisenhower spoke about her support for Barack in Alexandria, Virginia.

[msblueinredstate]

1. So is her brother David

and his wife Julie NIXON Eisenhower.

[sattahipdeep]

4. Indeed!

Indeed, Eisenhower's granddaughter, Susan, was a founding member of a group of prominent Republicans that also included New York lawyer Rita Hauser, former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee, and former long-time Iowa Rep. Jim Leach, and gave one of the nominating speeches for Obama at the Democratic convention in Denver in August.

"Hijacked by a relatively small few, the Republican Party of today bears no resemblance to Lincoln, Roosevelt or Eisenhower's party, or many of the other Republican administration that came after," Eisenhower, a foreign policy expert in her own right, wrote last August in the National Interest, a publication of the Nixon Centre, a foreign policy think tank named for former President Richard Nixon.

In fact, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Nixon's daughter who married Eisenhower's grandson, has also endorsed Obama.

Since the Republican convention in early September -- and particularly with the nomination of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be McCain's vice presidential candidate -- the ranks of prominent Republicans who have either endorsed Obama or distanced themselves from their party's ticket have grown significantly, even while only about five percent of self-identified Republicans at the grassroots have told pollsters they won't support McCain.

In the past week, the Chicago Tribune, which not only had supported McCain during the Republican primary campaign, but had also not endorsed a Democratic presidential candidate in 161 years, came out for Obama.

Like Powell, the Tribune, which also owns the Los Angeles Times, noted the choice of Palin among other reasons for its decision, "McCain put his campaign before his country."

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44363

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2. We shall STAND OUR GROUND.....

I will acknowledge it, Dwight Eisenhower was a great American President,
and a great American, and (many indications) a man of high
principle and great personal integrity and courage. It appears he stood
against forces in his own party in order to govern all of
America following WWII. Yes, he is among the greatest Americans
and of the Greatest generation. I will stand for his memory, any day.

He is the last republican I could say that of. Unfortunately.
Yet here we see his granddaughter courageously standing up for America.
Perhaps we have not heard the last of the Eisenhower family yet.

After Eisenhower, the Republican party was corrupted into a twisted,
cynical caricature. The things that Eisenhower warned of came to pass.
Republicans have lead a destructive charge, but "Democrats" have also
been complicit. Power and greed is corrosive to all men.
We have thus been brought to the brink of destruction.

Now, for the good of America Republicans must abandon their wrecked,
unprincipled, and discredited party, become less partisan, step outside their
fortified citadels and again join America, for the good of America.
Nothing less than that must they do, for America.

For Democrats, the opposite is the case. We have stated our platform
and chosen our candidates. They are sound. We must now adhere to
these principles. As Democrats we may extend a courteous hand of
welcome but must otherwise STAND OUR GROUND. This cannot be about
compromise. There is no room or oxygen left for that.

We shall stand our ground, we shall adhere to our principles, we shall
walk our talk. For the good of America. Nothing less must we do.

[Gato Moteado]

3. nice!

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