At 10:25 PM 10/2/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote:
>>>>> Republicans were different then.
>>>>
>>>> Ahem. As were Democrats.
>>>
>>> The difference being that the Dems are _better_ now.
>>
>> If you define better as the Democrats having grabbed the mantle of
>> isolationism from the 1930's and 1940's Repubicans.
>
>I was thinking more in terms of racists bolting to the Republican party
>when the Civil Rights laws were passed.
Of course you were.
The following quote:
>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. This world in arms is not
>spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the
>genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way
>of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war,
>it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
> -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
was just self-evidentlyf referring to race relations and not
defense/foreign policy.
Good grief.
JDG
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