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That dude they named the homeless encampments after | |
0 (0%) |
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That dude who didn't stand up to Joe McCarthy | |
3 (17%) |
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That dude that bugged Democratic headquarters | |
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That dude who sold drugs to buy guns for death squads in Central America | |
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That dude who invaded Panama to cover up selling drugs to buy guns for death squads in Central America | |
1 (6%) |
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That dude who invaded Iraq because of a Saudi Arabian in Afghanistan attacked the WTC | |
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That dude who sent a mob to hang his Vice President | |
0 (0%) |
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Whoa! It's hard to decide! So many choices! | |
14 (78%) |
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3 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
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a kennedy
(29,738 posts)Dagstead Bumwood
(3,659 posts)LeftInTX
(25,675 posts)I'm too young to remember Eisenhower, however I haven't heard too many complaints about him.
StClone
(11,690 posts)He may be the one giving the Cons the "Get out of Jail Free" card in use now by the Don.
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,659 posts)So the OP ether forgot about him or felt that Ford didn't belong in that group. If it's the latter, I happen to agree. I'd trade every single present-day Republican for a Gerald Ford clone in a heartbeat. YMMV.
StClone
(11,690 posts)Looks Left to see Attila the Hun and Ford would be closer to Dem than Con today. So you bet, I agree with you.
MurrayDelph
(5,302 posts)"He's doin' a real good job for someone nobody ever voted for."
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,751 posts)Timewas
(2,196 posts)I recall his terms and things were pretty good then..
LiberalArkie
(15,731 posts)LunaSea
(2,895 posts)But after coming across this Grant quote, he's edging closer-
"If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other." -- Ulysses S. Grant
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,751 posts)I may have to revise my opinion of him after all.
mvd
(65,180 posts)At least Ike warned about the Military Industrial Complex.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,751 posts)The system of super highways across the country is all I can think of now.
MyOwnPeace
(16,946 posts)Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)there's a reason Abraham Lincoln's and Theodore Roosevelt's images are carved into the side of Mount Rushmore.
StClone
(11,690 posts)And i think you meant facetious.
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)my spelling ability and my spell checker.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,316 posts)From when republicans were the good guys.
gibraltar72
(7,515 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,690 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Sorry, he is probably the best of the modern Rethugs, but still no cigar.
AmyStrange
(7,989 posts)Celerity
(43,640 posts)David__77
(23,566 posts)Reconstruction is needed now as well.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)to leave the Union.
edhopper
(33,649 posts)TR.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)And I don't like some of them.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Hekate
(90,925 posts)I wasnt around for WWII, but I actually remember school integration and how it was Dwight Eisenhower who made that happen.
I was a little kid myself, and the visuals were very striking on the nightly news and in LIFE magazine photos.
andym
(5,445 posts)as we've had in recent decades. In his defense, few men of prominence stood up to Sen. Joe McCarthy and the House UnAmerican Committee. Eisenhower carried out the desegregation of the military and associated organizations ordered initially by Truman. He deserves credit for that among many other things.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)I don't like any republican.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)It went downhill from there!
marlakay
(11,524 posts)What he did with the Indians. Talk about ruining my perfect image of him!
Laelth
(32,017 posts)I dont think that hes on the list.
-Laelth