Eisenhower is rolling in his grave, a fantastic quote.

[Locut0s]

I'm assuming this has been making the rounds lately. But I just saw it recently.



Well congrats that idiot is president.

[First Speaker]

1. I suspect Ike would have endorsed Sanders if he were still around...

...a great man and a fine President. The last really good GOP President.

[Hekate]

3. In your dreams, but yes Ike was the last best GOP President.

[murielm99]

8. Interesting how we can't have a thread without

someone dragging Sanders into things. They remind me of some of the God-botherers I know. They never seem to shut up about God, whether we want to hear it or not.

[ret5hd]

9. Well, at lest Sanders is real.

[murielm99]

10. Huh? And Eisenhower was't real?

He was the topic of the thread, not some independent Senator with a thin record of accomplishment.

[ret5hd]

11. Stop it, please! You're killing me!

[Hekate]

12. God-botherers indeed -- excellent comparison!

[murielm99]

13. I would like to clarify that I

am a Christian. I don't feel the need to mention it every five minutes. God botherers embarrass me and a lot of other liberal Christians a great deal.

[Hekate]

17. Works for me

Actually, this is the first time I've read the term God-botherer outside of a British novel, and so it kind of tickled me.

Have not been a Christian as such in quite a long time, but during the BushCheney years I signed up for a number of Christian, Jewish, and Interfaith online newsletters (i.e. Sojourners) because it greatly consoled me to know there are still people of faith who are also people of goodwill. Lately I've had cause to look up those links again because of participating in an online group where a number of posters self-identified as Christians in spiritual crisis because of the hate unleashed by Trump being expressed in their churches as a kind of sewage outflow. It hurts me to see that kind of pain, and I urged each one I encountered to look up Sojourners, change denominations, and not give up.

[wryter2000]

23. I'm also Christian

I so wish the Bible thumpers would keep their religion to themselves

[burrowowl]

7. I think he would have

[lordsummerisle]

2. If he were alive today

the Rethugs would have nothing to do with him...

[ailsagirl]

4. If Lincoln were alive--- ditto

[SHRED]

5. Nice sentiment but a bit dated

Look who's going to be controlling the federal government and they haven't exactly hidden their intentions.

[roamer65]

6. Ike is also the one who warned us about the military industrial complex.

He knew what was going on and we didn't listen.

Notice how he mentioned Texas oil millionaires...I am sure the same ones who were eventually responsible for the death of our beloved President Kennedy.

[C Moon]

14. I wonder why there's no recording of this. I see it's verified that he did indeed say this.

I'm looking online for a speech, and I'm kind of shocked there's nothing available in audio format.
Was it something in a written format?

[Aimee in OKC]

15. It was paraphrased from some private correspondence, not a speech.

It was in a letter to his brother, Edgar N. Eisenhower, last half of the 4th paragraph down.

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/letter-to-edgar-newton-eisenhower/

[C Moon]

16. Thank you very much, Aimme in OKC!

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. Search YouTube for Eisenhower Military Industrial Complex speech

It's there.

[progressoid]

18. Ugh.

How far we have fallen.

[JonLP24]

19. I'm not so sure anymore

[Liberal_in_LA]

21. k&r

[wryter2000]

22. He was my president when I was a little kid

I miss him. If we could have Republicans like him again we'd be fine

[shenmue]

26. Yes

[smirkymonkey]

24. +1000

[spanone]

25. K&R...