[meandog]

Ike appointed Earl Warren to the Supreme Court. He had the highest tax rates ever on capital gains and earned income. He integrated the schools. He proposed the largest public works project since the CCC (interstate highway system). He believed in welfare. He opposed the "military industrial complex." Yet, he is also remembered for being a pretty good president...I am posting this because Ike reminds me a lot of John McCain

[Eagle Eye]

I am posting this because Ike reminds me a lot of John McCain

I think I saw your marbles on ebay or craigslist.

Just telling ya in case you want them back.

[RightWhale]

Eisenhower was nearly the Dem nominee in 1952 but finally decided to go for the Republican nomination. Even so, it took several ballots to secure the nomination.

[hinckley buzzard]

Ike was not very easily categorized by the usual right-left dichotomy, despite the best efforts of these leftwing jerk-offs. At the time he was excoriated by liberals as "a do-nothing president" who just played golf while the world burned. It later became clear that he had a strong grip on the government and, like Reagan, made it look so easy people thought he was asleep at the switch. They were wrong.

His domestic policies were not geared toward the kind of idiot litmus tests used by the writer here. He did what the world needed at a very dangerous time--managed the early unstable rounds of the Cold War when the risk of going to war with the USSR was far more than theoretical. As for the Interstate and integration, no one could say then that these were "liberal" policies, any more than they are today: providing basic infrastructure and equal protection under the law are both responsibilities of the government under the Constitution. The "Military-Industrial Complex" comment, a favorite fetish of adolescent 60's leftwingers, has always been taken way out of context, as it was a passing observation from the man who won the War thanks to "The Arsenal for Democracy."

Ike did the right thing as God gave him to see the right. He was no ideologue one way or the other.

[hinckley buzzard]

In Ike's day, capital gains were not treated differently from earned income, so the rich paid 91% tax on capital gains. From 91% to 15% - another reason why it's good to be rich!

What this diseased bitch doesn't tell you is that there were so many deductions and shelters in the labyrinthine tax codes of the fifties that no one came anywhere near paying the tax rates they pay today. The average federal tax bill in the 50's was about 3-5% compared to maybe 17% today. This is good example of liberal lying by selecting the facts. All one has to do is to consider that in the 50's a family could be supported well by one wage earner, which is what most families had--back then.

[Biblebelter]

Who cares if Eisenhower was liberal? He had a campaign slogan that people bought into, I LIKE IKE. The best McCain can come up with is a bullyism, LIKE ME or ELSE.