Nixon's daughter gives to Obama

[Tesha]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/04/22/politics/p080201D17.DTL&tsp=1

Nixon's daughter gives to Obama

One of President Nixon's daughters, Julie Nixon Eisenhower,
apparently supports a Democrat in this year's presidential
contest — Barack Obama.

Eisenhower has contributed the maximum amount allowed during
the primary season to Obama's campaign: $2,300. Federal
Election Commission records show she gave Obama's campaign
$1,000 on Feb. 4, another $1,000 on Feb. 18 and $300 on March 5.

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[JuniperLea]

1. That's not surprising...

It's not her father's Republican party anymore. Democrats are far more fiscally responsible now than Republicans, among many other old school Republican traits that have gone by the wayside.

[Tesha]

8. Ike's grand daughter is also an Obama supporter.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020102621_pf.html

Why I'm Backing Obama

By Susan Eisenhower
WaPo, Saturday, February 2, 2008; A15

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[JuniperLea]

13. Good to see this happening!

Democrats will benefit from this trend, without question!

[Tesha]

23. I certainly think so. (NT)

[GoesTo11]

2. Her father must be rolling over in his grave.

Which I have seen. Pretty interesting presidential library/museum if you're ever in Yorba Linda. Even if it does minimize (though not completely ignore) Watergate.

[backscatter712]

3. Is there lots of urine stains on Nixon's grave?

One can hope...

[NJSecularist]

5. You gotta be kidding me with that garbage...

Why would anybody piss on a president's grave?

[newmajority]

I wouldn't do that to most of them.

Except maybe two that have the same last name. And I don't mean Adams or Roosevelt.

(Neither of them are dead yet either, so I'm just sayin')

[NJSecularist]

11. I hate George W Bush with a passion, but I would never piss on his grave.

That is just disrespectful to anybody, let alone a (soon to be) former president.

[Yavapai]

12. I would prefer to piss on dubya while he is alive.

Truthfully though, I wouldn't piss on Dubya if his face was on fire!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Because he was a dirty son of a bitch.

Why would anybody respect Nixon just because he was a miserable failure of a president?

[JuniperLea]

15. Funny you should mention...

I've heard more than one person say they wanted to do that!

[Tesha]

7. Perhaps a new energy source?

Hook old Tricky Dick up to a generator? ;)

Tesha

[GoesTo11]

10. Just his body

[sellitman]

4. Just as long as the ink doesnt rub off its ok with me.

Another sexist for Obama.

[cliffordu]

6. Well, That's the end of Obama for me, then.....

[AllentownJake]

9. She married Ike's Grandkid

Ike wasn't that bad with the warning of the milatary industrial complex taking the country over and all and he helped beat the Nazis.

[galaxy21]

16. She's probably unhappy with the current republican party

Seriously, today's republicans are about as far away as you can get from Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Regans...etc. The Christian right and the neo cons took over the party and a lot of older republicans (including Ford) resented it.

[Occam Bandage]

17. Not surprising. Nixon would probably be a Democrat in today's world.

On the foreign front, he signed the world's first nuclear-arms limitation treaty with the Soviets, signed the anti-ballistic missile treaty, instituted a policy of cooperation over belligerence with the Soviet Union, opened China to diplomacy, and began withdrawal from Vietnam.

On the domestic front, he indexed Social Security for inflation, created SSI, OSHA, and the EPA, expanded funding for federal parks, instituted the first affirmative action plan, increased salaries for federal employees, and lowered the national speed limit to conserve gasoline. For God's sakes, in 1974 he proposed a universal health care plan that is almost identical to Hillary Clinton's.

He certainly had his bad sides, too. But at the same time, much of what he did was far more liberal than I would expect any Democrat to attempt today.

"Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war" -R. Nixon, 1968.

[galaxy21]

18. if Nixon were around today he wouldn't have gotten anywhere in the republican party

He wasn't overtly relgious, wasn't a neocon, and wasnt gun mad.

I think it's so easy to label republicans as the eternal villains, but you'd watch ron paul in the debates and you'd think 'wow, this party actually stood for some good things once.'

[Occam Bandage]

20. It's interesting, really. If you divide post-Depression politics into two periods,

pre-Reagan and post-Reagan, you see something interesting.

Every pre-Reagan President would fit comfortably in the post-Reagan Democratic party. Every post-Reagan President would fit comfortably in the pre-Reagan Republican party.

FDR fundamentally changed politics. Reagan fundamentally changed politics. I'm hoping Obama can do the same.

[galaxy21]

19. if Nixon were around today he wouldn't have gotten anywhere in the republican party

He wasn't overtly relgious, wasn't a neocon, and wasnt gun mad.

I think it's so easy to label republicans as the eternal villains, but you'd watch ron paul in the debates and you'd think 'wow, this party actually stood for some good things once.'

[Rageneau]

21. Birds of a feather flock together

[scheming daemons]

22. Oh... so now Nixon's offspring share his guilt? Sorry... "sins of the father" is bullshit....

Do YOU want to be held responsible for everything your father or grandfather did or said?