Dwight Eisenhower

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He's the President, Stupid

Beau Friedlander | Posted 12.22.2008 | 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 12.06.2008 | Politics

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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 12.04.2008 | 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 12.01.2008 | Home

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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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John McCain, Joe McCarthy and a Code of Honor

Martin Nolan | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

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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 10.26.2008 | Politics

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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 10.10.2008 | Home

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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 10.10.2008 | Politics

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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 10.05.2008 | Politics

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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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