During the recently completed presidential campaign, President-elect Barack Obama and his supporters have been flailing around trying to find the presidential identity to make the inexperienced Senator seem worthy of the Office.The comparisons have ranged from Lincoln to FDR to JFK (Camelot). The latest comparison is to President Eisenhower.The attempt is to compare President-elect Obama's proposed $1Trillion dollar "Green Infrastructure" stimulus package to Eisenhower's Federal Interstate Highway System. This analogy ignores Eisenhower's previous job as "Supreme Allied Commander" during World War II. Ike had seen what a federal highway system could mean in military terms, the rapid deployment of men and materiel, as and where needed. That first federal highway system, the Autobahn, was built by Hitler and his National Socialist Government.Ike modified Hitler's transportation strategy for the "Cold War" by designing into the American freeway system...(Read Full Post)