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Hillary Clinton needed Virginia and got it. Kaine probably wasn't necessary for that. She probably hoped for North Carolina but that was unlikely for her. Still a southern Governor / Senator made some sense to try to appeal to those who voted for her husband but might not for her.
I dunno if Sanders would have taken VP but I guess it wasn't considered.
I haven't studied Eisenhower's administration a lot but that he got spooked should be considered very serious even if late.
Eisenhower was one of the greatest hypocrites in history. He warned of the military industrial complex in his goodbye speech. while having created and catered to them for his entire presidency, raising our nuclear arsenal from 1,600 nuclear bombs to 16,000 during his presidency, plus all the delivery systems of planes, bases, missile sites, etc., all at taxpayer expense. By the time JFK became president, that gravy train dried up, so they pushed for war against Cuba and Vietnam, to get the gravy train running again.
At least 35 other presidents deserve the hypocrite label more than Eisenhower.
Viral meme says 1956 Republican platform was pretty liberal
Dwight D. Eisenhower on tax cuts and a balanced budget
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The fact is there must be balanced budgets before we are again on a safe and sound system in our economy. That means, to my mind, that we cannot afford to reduce taxes, reduce income, until we have in sight a program of expenditures that shows that the factors of income and of outgo will be balanced. Now that is just to my mind sheer necessity.
Sanders: I’m ‘not that much of a socialist’ compared to Eisenhower
I have opened the door to that possibility because I also have serious concerns abut the electoral chances of the other top 3 candidates. Any challenger to Trump will get attacked on policy and personally. She is a fighter. She is being specific. Will follow more closely.
Warren isn't a fighter. She's a self serving loud mouth who hides between distortion and lies who also has had not one accomplishment in the US Senate that she can run on.
Don't know if C-D has been following, but don't sleep on Warren. So far, she's the candidate that offers the most substantive policy positions and she's been connecting with voters lately. Just goes to show you, things can change in politics so fast. Excited to see how these primaries shake out.
She has lay out the most policies and is working hard but still think she is not the best candidate to attract the Great Lakes states voters the Party needs to win.
Don't know if C-D has been following, but don't sleep on Warren. So far, she's the candidate that offers the most substantive policy positions and she's been connecting with voters lately. Just goes to show you, things can change in politics so fast. Excited to see how these primaries shake out.
Warren probably needs to compare and contrast her positions with Harris and Buttigieg more. To the extent that can be done.
While it is hard to compare with Buttigieg since he really hasn't committed to specific policies yet and being Mayor of South Bend isn't really relevant to national politics. Warren and Harris have senate voting records that can be compared, but I'm pretty sure they are basically indistinguishable on major issues.
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