Dwight Eisenhower Was A Liberal

[AProgressiveThinker]

Watch it and tell me what you think.

[iandhr]

1. IKE was a good President.

[AProgressiveThinker]

2. Indeed

A great president, infact. Arguably the best president of the 20th century a long with Lyndon B. Johnson and FDR, but sadly, not many people still talk about Eisenhower. He should, no doubt, be a model for the Democratic Party.

[Heywood J]

11. Unless you happened to be Iranian or work on a banana plantation.

As with pretty much every President, a mixed bag.

[stlsaxman]

3. you do great stuff, young man!

and i know everyone now-a-days throws the "f bomb" around like it weren't nothin'...

but these videos of your would be top-of-the-heap without them, in my humble.

keep up the good fight!

[mckara]

4. Good Job! Excellent Arguments!

Thanks for your review! You don't need obscenities when the facts are on your side.

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[LeftInTX]

12. Great list

[snot]

5. NO. Modern Dems are Conservatives.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. Eisenhower appointed five pro civil rights justices to the Supreme Court

desegregated the Armed Forces, the District of Columbia and openly confronted the States' Rightists governors who refused to obey desegregation orders handed down by the USSC pursuant to Brown vs. Board of Education. Republicans today want to diminish the power of the federal government over the States. Eisenhower took the extraordinary step of sending U.S. troops, the 101st Airborne, into Little Rock to protect black students. If Obama sent the U.S. military into a State today to enforce a federal judge's order, the Republicans would be carrying out their many threats to secede.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

7. Truman (D) desegregated the Armed Forces by issuing Exec Order 9981 on 7/26/1948.

Eisenhower was a good president for continuing with that policy and for other reasons as well.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. What I had read is that despite the order it was only desegregated on paper

and perhaps in U.S. forces in S. Korea. It actually took Eisenhower's firm hand to carry it out.

[jjewell]

9. The only kick against Eisenhower....

... was his choice of Richard Nixon for his Vice President....

[stlsaxman]

10. Dick may have been paranoid, delusional, racist, even... but he beat the pants off any

member of BushCo.

[kenfrequed]

13. You have to give him some tiny shred of credit

The EPA. Among other things.

But Nixon was up to his eyeballs in redbaiting and was a crook.

[stlsaxman]

18. aside from being all that you mentioned- a few of his policies were pretty damned liberal! nt

[joanbarnes]

14. Grew up w/Ike in the Whitehouse and loved him, now I know why.

[mmonk]

15. I was born during the Eisenhower years. Thanks.

[indepat]

16. President Eisenhower was much more liberal imo than most Democrats who are now in

national office today: that big money corrupts and corrupts absolutely, thus assuring the Koch brothers and their ilk will get most of what they want at the detriment of the 99% is thus assured, making a mockery of our founding principles.

[Stuart G]

17. Please read the statement below my signature..A great statement by Ike..

Not bad for a Republican...

[MrSlayer]

19. No, he wasn't.

FDR was a liberal, Henry Wallace, who got fucked out of the 1944 VP spot when it mattered, was a liberal. Ike was a conservative of the old style. Just because he seems reasonable compared to the fucking maniacs that are Republicans today and the Reaganites that are Democrats today does not make him a liberal. Ike would have slapped you if you called him a liberal.

Nixon is liberal compared to today's republicans and democrats but he too, was no liberal.

Asshole Reagan would be considered way too liberal today for the crazies.

The pendulum swung to the right and has stayed there for forty years so far.