Dwight Eisenhower

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The Republican Presidential Recession Record

Jeff Madrick | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Dwight Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, Recession, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Politics News

Eisenhower: 2 recessions; Nixon and Ford: 2 recessions; Reagan: 1 recession; George H.W. Bush: 1 recession; George W. Bush: 2 recessions; Democrats: 1 recession. Eight to one, you decide.

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Ghosts of Transitions Past

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, War in Vietnam, Richard Nixon, Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter, Obama Transition, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Carl Brauer, Presidential Transitions, Politics News

President-elect Obama appointed old hands to his top economic posts, explaining Wednesday that "the vision for change" comes from him. That's a way to deal with a central problem of transitions.

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Why the Conservatives Won't Crack-up, But the Left Probably Will

Rupert Russell | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

The conservative Counter-Establishment is the most cast-iron entanglement of alliances and dependencies known in modern American history.

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He's the President, Stupid

Beau Friedlander | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Obama's peace train is on tracks that have led to the same place since Eisenhower first told America to beware the military-industrial complex.

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Why I'm a Rogue Republican

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Dwight Eisenhower, California, Colin Powell, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Dick Cheney Iraq, Democrats, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin Reaction, Republicans, Politics News

I've been a lifelong Republican and plan to spend all Eternity as one. But my party abandoned me in the year 2000.

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The New Know Nothings

Larry Beinhart | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

The Republican Party likes to remember Abraham Lincoln. And so they should. It's a nice memory and brings credit to them. But there is another strand that runs through their history.

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Voting Expert William Jacoby Knows How You're Going To Vote

Diane Tucker | Posted 11.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Polls, John McCain, Journal of Politics, Youth Vote, Political Blogging, Michigan State University, University of Michigan, Independent Voters, Reagan Democrats, Democratic Party, Diane Tucker, 2008 Election, Bradley Effect Obama, Barack Obama, Offthebus, Pollsters, Undecided Voters, Dwight Eisenhower, John McCain Vietnam, Huffington Post Off the Bus, Cnn, Say No to Pollsters, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Vietnam War, Racism, Presidential Election, Republican Party, Bradley Effect, Great Depression, Voting, Home News

As the polls grow tighter, more people wonder what the electorate will be thinking on Nov 4. OffTheBus posed that question to political scientist Will...

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The Republican Collapse: 100 Years In The Making

Martin Nolan | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Karl Rove, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Dewey, Capitalism, Robert Taft, Aig, Dwight Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt, Lehman Brothers, Barry Godlwater, Nelso Rockefeller, Margaret Thatcher, Henry Paulson, Bear Stearns, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson., Home News

THE REPUBLICAN COLLAPSE: 100 YEARS IN THE MAKING Even amid the stressful heat of the campaign, the candidate could not escape the obvious. "The Republ...

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Republicans -- Good At Winning, Not So Much At Governing

Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Herbert Hoover, John McCain, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, John Kennedy, George W. Bush, Harry Truman, Woodrow Wilson, Breaking Politics News, Jimmy Carter, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News

McCain has guaranteed he would win the election. It's understandable why he may think victory is still within his grasp. Republicans have proven most adept at winning elections by following a simple formula.

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John McCain, Joe McCarthy and a Code of Honor

Martin Nolan | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Joe Mccarthy, John McCain, Dwight Eisenhower, Guilt by Association, Terrorism, William Ayers, McCarthywasm., Joseph N. Welch, Barack Obama, Politics News

Today, amid economic trauma which he does not seem to understand, McCain has conjured up the Stygian gloom of ultraconservatism's darkest hour.

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Lessons of the Fall:
Ike's In, Reagan's Out

Eugene Jarecki | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Paul Krugman, Wall Street Crisis, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Free Market Fundementalism, John McCain, Politics News

I encourage McCain and, for that matter, anyone in Washington who's drunk the Gipper's free-market fundamentalist and gun-toting expansionist Kool-Aid, to spend a bit more time reading Eisenhower.

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Obama Thinks Like a Leader, And Therefore Might Lose

Rusty Russell | Posted 09.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Polls, John McCain, Dwight Eisenhower, George Stephanopoulos, Barack Obama, Rick Warren, Sarah Palin, Campaign Manager, Campaign Advice, Palin Mccain, Obama Warren, Obama Biden, Obama Abortion, Home News

Nearly every admonishment of Obama these days includes some call for the candidate to cut to the chase. Simplify the speeches, they say. Chop down the answers into blurbs. But what all these freelance campaign managers miss is this: Barack doesn't think that way. He's not a refrigerator magnet guy.

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Pre-Election Post-Mortem: Why Obama Lost

Tony Sachs | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, 2012 Presidential Election, Thomas Dewey, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, 2008 Presidential Race, Alaska, Dwight Eisenhower, Conservative Voters, Democratic Party, Swing Voters, Republican Party, Politics News

Well, this time we didn't lose it. John McCain won it by running a campaign so brilliant that it seemed to surprise even his most enthusiastic backers.

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John McCain Channels Reagan: Both the Good and the Troubling

Steve Clemons | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Dwight Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Billl Kristol, John Kerry, Joseph Lieberman, Harry Truman, Lindsey Graham, Republican National Convention, Barack Obama, Robert Kagan, Randy Scheunemann, Fred Kagan, Politics News

Tonight, McCain gave us a big dose of Reagan's national greatness flourish in a dignified, genteel and pleasant manner. His speaking style was reminiscent of Reagan -- without the memorable lines.

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Off the Shelf

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 08.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain, Republican Party, Future of the Republican Party, Dwight Eisenhower, Ike, Neoconservatives, Politics News

How can Republicans -- having failed so ignominiously at home and abroad over the past eight years -- recover? What can be done to save this party?

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Important Canary in the Coal Mine Moment: Susan Eisenhower Leaves Republican Party

Steve Clemons | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Independent, John McCain, Matt Stoller, Bob Dornan, Armand Hammer, Dwight Eisenhower, Occidental Petroleum, Al Gore Sr. Al Gore, Richard Alatorre, Nixon Center, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Puma, Susan Eisenhower, Barack Obama, Politics News

Imagine if you were OpenLeft's Matt Stoller -- and he woke up one day and he decided he couldn't take the drift in the Democratic Party any longer -...

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Ike Was Right

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Government Waste, Dwight Eisenhower, Military Spending, Politics News

With $9.3 trillion national debt, a declining economy and enormous unmet needs, the time is long overdue for Congress to stop rubber-stamping White House requests for military spending.

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Karl Rove and the Media-Politico Revolving Door: It Goes Further Back than Stephanopoulos

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Newsweek, Time, Karl Rove, Pundits, Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, US News & World Report, Fdr, White House Ghosts, George Stephanopoulos, Jfk, Punditry, Franklin Roosevelt, Presidential Speechwriting, Media News

The New York Times traces the trend as far back as George Stephanopoulos's switch from the Clinton White House to ABC News, but it goes much further back.

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Petraeus' Testimony: Everything His President Wants to Hear

Robert Scheer | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

Once again, the president is passing the buck to the uniformed military to justify continuing a ludicrous imperial adventure, and the good general has dutifully performed.

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Democratic Losers: What They Should Have Said And What They Actually Said, 1952-2008

Tony Sachs | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Walter Mondale, Yes We Can, Al Gore, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Nominees, George W. Bush, Michael Dukakis, George Mcgovern, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Hubert Humphrey, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Adlai Stevenson, John Kerry 2004, Politics News

It's simple. Eight years of peace and prosperity minus marital infidelity and Whitewater equals me, Al Gore. See you January 20.

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Getting Out of Recession Without Getting Into Trouble

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 01.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Economic Slowdown, US Economy, 2008 Recession, Dwight Eisenhower, Military Industrial Complex, Economic Recession, Recession, Economy, Business News

How do you get out of recession without encouraging all those bad habits that have gotten us into our economic morass to begin with?

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Body Snatchers

Laraine Newman | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Republicans, Dwight Eisenhower, Axis of Evil, John Edwards, Edwards Haircut, Bush Gore, Hillary Clinton, The Dead Zone, Politics News

The Republicans want Hillary to be the nominee, because they can beat her. At best, her ability to win isn't as certain as Edward's. We can't have another Republican in the White House!

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Snake Oil: The Republican Art of Fooling the Public

Dan Agin | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Republican Lies, Watergate, Ronald Reagan, Government Conmen, George W. Bush, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Grenada, Catherine the Great, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Gerald Ford, Phony Politicians, Reagan Conman, Dwight Eisenhower, Mistakes by Presidents, Cheney Haliburton, Republican Hypocrisy, Madame Blavatsky, Reagan Mistakes, Political Mishaps, Vietnam, Richard Nixon, Cleopatra, Political Embarassments, Iraq, Republican Party, Snake Oil, Conmen, Great Depression, Republicans, Politics News

In politics, we don't remember enough. We forget how much of American political history is a history of con-men selling us "snake oil."

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Ken Burns' The War

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.04.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Dwight Eisenhower, David Patraeus, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ken Burns, Edward R. Murrow, Katie Couric, George W. Bush, Entertainment News

For me, Ken Burns' stunning documentary shows that all war is evil and must be ended for good, not glorified or exploited for partisan political advantage.

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