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(Yahoo)   Finally, someone dared to ask the question no one else wanted to speak aloud: Would Dwight Eisenhower like the iPhone?   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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Tabatha Static
2007-07-11 12:20:11 PM  
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lucyfer
2007-07-11 12:23:37 PM  
someone needs to send back the check they got for writing that article. i have a feeling that author would just spend it on pot anyway.

/stay off my lawn
 
The Bastard
2007-07-11 1:40:43 PM  
Since Bush is much like Ike according to Bush I would have to say that Ike would like the iphone because he could get the internets on it and also call mammy when he needs help pronouncing a big word or something.

He could also call in airstrikes on brown people from anywhere.
 
Peaceboy [TotalFark]
2007-07-11 1:40:53 PM  
Sure. 4 gig is more than enough to hold all the great Sousa marches.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2007-07-11 1:42:02 PM  
Tabatha Static: LOL!11! u iz a fashist dood i like!

What? No iPhone PS'd into Ike's hand?
 
GurneyHalleck
2007-07-11 1:43:25 PM  
Ike like Bush? Unpossible.

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 clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
-April 16, 1953[30]


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 you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
-letter to his brother Edgar, November 8, 1954
 
cfcoder
2007-07-11 1:50:48 PM  
More important question, what does this Dwight think of the iPhone?

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SnoreCriminal
2007-07-11 1:53:08 PM  
If Eisenhower were here today he would:

1. Hate the iPhone
2. Hate George Bush
3. Hate pretty much virtually everything about our "culture".

/I'm with Eisenhower on this one.
 
beerrun [TotalFark]
2007-07-11 2:13:38 PM  
Ok, ok. Enough of this farking iPhone bullshiat already.
 
Snarfangel
2007-07-11 2:19:58 PM  
In other news, Franklin Roosevelt would have been completely indifferent to microwavable popcorn, and Abraham Lincoln would find it difficult to use an electric razor.
 
Neurocrat
2007-07-11 2:27:43 PM  
Snarfangel: In other news, Franklin Roosevelt would have been completely indifferent to microwavable popcorn, and Abraham Lincoln would find it difficult to use an electric razor.

Taft, however, would marvel at the simplicity and serving size or today's butter-laden popcorns.

/He's one fat mother...
 
RobMan326
2007-07-11 2:39:51 PM  
A more important question:

Would Black Jesus like the iPhone?

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woodstock827
2007-07-11 2:41:31 PM  
If my grandma doesn't know how to use the phone, it's too complicated...

come on... six steps just to make a phone call?
 
mofomisfit
2007-07-11 2:42:37 PM  
"can take as many as six steps: wake the phone, unlock its buttons, summon the home screen, open the phone program, view the recent calls or speed-dial list, and select a name."

Really? Open the phone program? So you can't just punch in the numbers and push send?
 
limeyfellow
2007-07-11 3:37:27 PM  
Eisenhower was far too busy introducing loyality pledges and obediance training to bother with the iphone. He probrobly have it saying "God Bless America, Obey!" when you first use it and thats about it.
 
Oakenshield
2007-07-11 3:45:37 PM  
Was Eisenhower gay?
 
TheRaven7
2007-07-11 3:59:13 PM  
limeyfellow: Eisenhower was far too busy introducing loyality pledges and obediance training to bother with the iphone. He probrobly have it saying "God Bless America, Obey!" when you first use it and thats about it.

What the fark are you talking about?
 
historywench
2007-07-11 4:48:23 PM  
limeyfellow: Eisenhower was far too busy introducing loyality pledges and obediance training to bother with the iphone. He probrobly have it saying "God Bless America, Obey!" when you first use it and thats about it.

Wasn't that the Congress more than Eisenhower who implemented things such as the insertion of "Under God" in the pledge, loyalty oaths and the like during the Red Scare and the height of McCarthyism?

"Q. E. W. Kenworthy, New York Times: Mr. President, a number of leading universities and colleges have decided not to participate in the Federal Student Loan Program because of the loyalty oath required. I wonder if you would give us your views on the loyalty oath and whether you would favor a revision of the law to make this unnecessary.

THE PRESIDENT. Well, the law, of course, was passed by Congress; and while I didn't particularly like the one part of it, why, I, of course, had to put it in the position where it could be executed.

So far as I'm concerned, and I have stated this ever since the question was posed to me, I personally am ready each morning to take an oath that I am not a Communist and that I am loyal to the United States. I think, however, that when we begin to single out any group of citizens and say, "This is a matter of legal compulsion," I can see why they are resentful.

To my mind, anybody who is taking an oath as a citizen, when he becomes naturalized or any other time he is required to take an oath as a public servant, when he says that he is going to defend the United States and its Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, for me that ought to settle the question.

I rather deplore that universities have found it necessary to find, for the moment, a narrow dividing line and therefore keep a number of citizens out of taking advantage of the loan provisions that the Federal Government set up; but for my part, I should think that the loyalty oath, the basic citizenship oath, is sufficient." - http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=11587
 
kpottruff
2007-07-12 4:05:03 AM  
New York Times reviewer David Pogue hailed the iPhone as "dead simple to operate," though he conceded that making a call "can take as many as six steps: wake the phone, unlock its buttons, summon the home screen, open the phone program, view the recent calls or speed-dial list, and select a name."

Gee gosh thanks Steve Jobs... now I have to go through almost as many steps as there are in basic phone calling to make a call. And Apple is supposed to be simple? I have a UTSmartcomm phone that runs on windows and I have to do 3 things (open phone program... dial number and send) I assume talking is a granted step.

What a douchebag... phones make calls period.
 
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