# Obama is an "Eisenhower Democrat" and this election is no clash-of-ideologies

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [August 26, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-an-eisenhower-democrat-and-this-election-is-no-clash-of-ideologies/632737 "2012-08-26T18:33:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-an-eisenhower-democrat-and-this-election-is-no-clash-of-ideologies/632737/21 "2012-09-03T15:56:49Z")

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> [@moonshot925](#):
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> Obama bombed the crap out of Libya. Is that old or new style internationalism?

Now you’re making Libya sound like North Vietnam or Cambodia. Obama did not bomb the crap out of Libya. He approved a very limited bombing of some of Gaddafi’s stategic-points, for a short period before the Euros took it over; a homeopathic dose of bombing, as these things go.

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