Reply #6: Ike was still a product of the Cold War. But he was, I believe...

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at heart a smart and decent guy who tried to do what he thought was the right thing for what he thought were the right reasons.

I remember seeing the films of Ike walking amongst the stacks of bodies at a just-liberated concentration camp in World War II. Though he tried to maintain his composure as a General, you could see that he was absolutely mortified by the carnage around him.

Now contrast this to the Bush family, which has never shown an iota of compassion or sacrifice for anyone and, indeed, made their very fortunes funding the Nazi war machine that Ike helped us fight.

There hasn't been, IMHO, a Republican like Ike since Ike.