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In reply to the discussion: DU may have to TS me - I agree 100% with this Republican talking point [View all]Chef Eric
(1,024 posts)75. I don't think Eisenhower was a great President.
We are still suffering the consequences of the 1953 coup in Iran, which brought down the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.
Imagine what things could have been like if Eisenhower had not authorized that coup. Iran would not have grown to despise us, and would not have taken 52 American hostages in 1979, thereby bringing down Carter's Presidency and ensuring the election of Ronald Reagan.
I don't think Eisenhower was a great President. Great Presidents don't authorize coups of democratically elected governments.
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DU may have to TS me - I agree 100% with this Republican talking point [View all]
OmahaBlueDog
Aug 2012
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There is no way that Ronald Reagan would be accepted in today's Republican Party
Gothmog
Aug 2012
#11
Don't forget that under Reagan, ketchup was counted as a vegetable for school lunch purposes.
amandabeech
Aug 2012
#55
I guess today's Republicans would love having their capital gains tax rate raised to "normal" rates?
cascadiance
Aug 2012
#85
He was a good man. I really don't think he would want in this Republican party.
Booster
Aug 2012
#25
Sorry, but I have to disagree: Genial maybe, but rotten thru and thru (see above)
FailureToCommunicate
Aug 2012
#38
Good source cite to say "THEY ARE STUPID" now, 'cause President Eisenhower said they are.
patrice
Aug 2012
#31
He also said, with respect to Nixon's contributions, "If you give me a week, I might think of one."
AnotherMcIntosh
Aug 2012
#32
To see how much the Republicans have changed, watch the Katherine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy movie
Lydia Leftcoast
Aug 2012
#46
The cancer of that tiny splinter group has metastasized to the entire GOP/RW/conservative
indepat
Aug 2012
#47
When one compares Eisenhower with the likes of Romney and Ryan 'splinters'
Rosa Luxemburg
Aug 2012
#49
what's the deal. tweeted this 4 times and the tweet total didn't go up nt
Laura PourMeADrink
Aug 2012
#62
Exactly. It never was a republican talking point. It's a quote from a letter that he wrote
Zorra
Aug 2012
#88
K&R "Embarrassed Republicans Admit They've Been Thinking Of Eisenhower
DianaForRussFeingold
Aug 2012
#94
I wish I could believe that today's Dems would never move to cut SS or Medicare,
NorthCarolina
Aug 2012
#102