Eisenhower's son endorses Kerry

[Ruffhowse]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/30/kerry.eisenhower.ap/

TRAPPE, Maryland (AP) -- John Eisenhower, son of Republican President Eisenhower, said in a newspaper column this week that he will vote for Democratic Sen. John Kerry for president on November 2.

In a rare public announcement, Eisenhower said he switched his party affiliation from Republican to independent after 50 years after losing confidence in his former party. He said Kerry has demonstrated courage, competence and a concern for tackling the "widening socio-economic gap in this country."

"There are times when we must break with the past, and I believe this is one of them," Eisenhower wrote in the opinion column published Tuesday in The Union Leader of Manchester, New Hampshire.

The column assails President Bush and the GOP for federal budget deficits, for "unilaterally" invading Iraq and for infringing on personal liberties.

[fearnobush]

1. Nice Quote.

"Senator Kerry, in whom I am willing to place my trust, has demonstrated that he is courageous, sober, competent, and concerned with fighting the dangers associated with the widening socio-economic gap in this country," he concluded.

A foot note to my day, the Freepers were all quiet, not in a debating mood. I work with mostly Dems, but they rarely speakout. During lunch, they did and and one of the republican guys said he never said he would vote for Bush, just that he is a republican.

My point... I think many republicans will be closet voters for Kerry.

[Piperay]

2. Good for him

unfortunately he is the kind of Republican that seems to be disappearing thanks to the neo-cons that have hijacked the party.

[rjbny62]

3. any more republicans like Ike?

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

Dwight D. Eisenhower
PRESIDENTIAL address, April 16, 1953

[pippin]

4. other great lines . . .

"Responsibility used to be observed in foreign affairs. That has meant respect for others. America, though recognized as the leader of the community of nations, has always acted as a part of it, not as a maverick separate from that community and at times insulting towards it."

"The Republican Party I used to know . . ."

"The fact is that today’s “Republican” Party is one with which I am totally unfamiliar."

This, however is a thinking, enlightened Republican. Hopefully there are others like him.