I am particularly fond of Eisenhower.

[Fire Walk With Me]

Who is your favorite General?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. You can't get better than beating NAZIS.

He, and especially his boss, rocked.

[DURHAM D]

2. Would you like to buy my "I Like Ike" campaign button?

That was my first campaign. Traveled all over Kansas with my grandfather in his DeSoto.

[Demoiselle]

3. Me too.

Decent man. Once upon a time, there were decent men in the Republican party.

[Faygo Kid]

4. He did the Interstate Highway System, and sent troops to desegregate Little Rock.

Far from perfect, Ike would have been drummed out of today's GOP. The Birchers said he was a Communist. I think ultimately he was a man of peace.

I think he was a great American, and I salute him. Plus, he thought MacArthur was a patoot.

A man of his time, but I for one am glad he was ours. And his warning about the military-industrial complex was right on. I was born under Truman, and don't remember much about Eisenhower, but he is I think underrated.

Thanks, Ike.

[Fire1]

6. Great pic. Oh shit., a spartan. LOL! GO BLUE!! n/t

[Faygo Kid]

8. Well, we'll see in football this year. Basketball? Sorry.

[w8liftinglady]

5. I use Eisenhower quotes in a lot of my editorials-he's a lot like my dad was

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.


Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.


I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.


I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.


We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. I am also fond of General Specific.

I could tell you why, but I'd rather it from you..

[foxfeet]

9. General Anaesthesia is a personal favorite.

[Faygo Kid]

10. K&R

[Petrushka]

11. "...favorite General?" ---> Where's General Welfare nowadays?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iWKSACvVRvw/SpCVguxWlNI/AAAAAAAAMG8/H_ePoHzv6xE/s400/promote+the+general+welfare.jpg

[H2O Man]

12. Crazy Horse.

[grantcart]

13. General Grant and General Giap were brilliant generals both winning in part

to their similar ability to move armies away from supply lines. I wondered if Giap had studied Grant's move at For Henry and Fort Donelson.

MacArthur's campaign in Korea was brilliant, especially his Inchon Landing.

[struggle4progress]

14. On the minus side of the ledger, we should probably mention:

(1) Tricky Dick as his VP. Dick, of course, was already well-known for playing dirty way back then

(2) Long long long silence during Joe McCarthy's heyday: Ike carefully side-stepped chance after chance to denounce the red-baiting crap, though he finally invoked executive privilege for the Army–McCarthy hearings

[UTUSN]

15. The one who hired-on all of them, then got the Nobel for rebuilding: Geo C. MARSHALL

EISENHOWER was a better version of Colin POWELL, courted by both parties but ultimately falling on the weasley side of Rethugism. A *better* version.



**********QUOTE********

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Marshall

George Catlett Marshall (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959) was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II,<2> Marshall served as the U.S. Army Chief of Staff during the war and as the chief military adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As Secretary of State his name was given to the Marshall Plan, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 ....

World War II
As Chief of Staff, Marshall organized the largest military expansion in U.S. history, inheriting an outmoded, poorly-equipped army of 189,000 men and, partly drawing from his experience teaching and developing techniques of modern warfare as an instructor at the Army War College, coordinated the large-scale expansion and modernization of the U. S. Army. Though he had never actually led troops in combat, Marshall was a skilled organizer with a talent for inspiring other officers.<7> Many of the American generals who were given top commands during the war were either picked or recommended by Marshall, including Dwight Eisenhower, Lloyd Fredendall, Leslie McNair, Mark Wayne Clark and Omar Bradley.


********UNQUOTE********

[grantcart]

20. Correct a brilliant General

Makes you wonder what the US would have been like with President Marshall instead of Eisenhouer.

[pipi_k]

16. Well, he probably wasn't technically a "General", but...

maybe something similar to his people...

My favorite is Geronimo.

[VMI Dem]

17. George C. Marshall, VMI '01.

[eppur_se_muova]

18. And I am particularly fond of this quote --

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, l952-----

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_eisenhower_quote.htm

[Faygo Kid]

21. Thanks for posting that. Ike would be driven from today's GOP.

Gerald Ford, too. Hell, even Reagan wasn't far enough right for today's GOP.

[david13]

19. I remember Eisenhower. Indeed he was one of the most respectable

of the generals, and of the Republicans, of all time.
He was not much of a Republican. In fact, there was much question, when it became apparent that he could win the presidency if he ran, as to whether he was going to run as a Dem or a Rep.
He was not a war monger. He was a civilian solder, and a civil man.
The soldiers loved and respected him. He was known as a soldiers soldier.
dc