I grew up in central Pennsylvania. Eisenhower's farm was 20 minutes from my house. It was a heavily Republican county. Ike was very popular. When I wore my "America needs Kennedy" button to school, kids made fun of me. I didn't understand how anyone could be opposed to what I thought were Democratic values: justice & equality for everyone. As an eight year old, that's all I could understand and its still all I need to understand today.
I can't believe it's almost fifty years later and the country is where it is. I offer this article by Alexander Cockburn as a reality check to those large clumps of readers here who are in denial. Concern troll me all you want but read the article, too:
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How the Democrats Blew It in Only Eight Months
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Led by Democrats since the start of this year, the US Congress now has a "confidence" rating of 14 per cent, the lowest since Gallup started asking the question in 1973 and five points lower than the Republicans scored last year.
The voters put the Democrats in to end the war and it’s escalating. The Democrats voted money for the surge. They voted for the next $459.6 billion military budget. Their latest achievement is to provide enough votes in support of Bush to legalize warrantless wire tapping for "foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States." Enough Democrats joined Republicans to make this a 227-183 victory for Bush.
The Democrats control the House. Speaker Nancy Pelosi could have stopped the bill in its tracks if she’d really wanted to. But she didn’t. The Democrats’ game is to go along with the White House agenda while stirring up dust storms to blind the base about to their failure to bring the troops home or restore constitutional government.
http://counterpunch.org/
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I don't feel the same way he does regarding impeachment but I respect his opinions.