Posted on 07/11/2006 6:14:32 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Why is the father of The Great Society ignored? Sure, he messed up with Viet Nam, but that's blamed on W anyway, but he made sure to transfer zillions of dollar$$$ from your back pockets to the back pockets of other people. What's up with that?
Good question... perhaps because he was a corrupt uncooth Texican? A necessary evil on the ticket of Camelot-Boy?
LBJ isn't mentioned because they want to pretend that the Vietnam War was thought up by Nixon.
Vietnam.
I've always believed it was Vietnam.
As much as the Dems wanted everyone to believe that Vietnam was "Nixon's War", it really wasn't. It was Johnson's.
Liberals like to blame Nixon, and, they will never face reality if facing reality causes them to give up a beloved fantasy. Mentioning LBJ would take them too close to reality, so they avoid him.
Simple as that.
Regards,
Also, becuae his Presidency was short and ended almost 40 years ago. He is long dead and his term was sorounded by other significant Presidencies (Roosevelt to Reagan). He was also a crude Texan which Lib's don't like (they prefer crude manhattanites). Hard to believe but his term of office was as far back as Coolidge's was then, and Keennedy's as far back as Harding's.
Because it's "common knowledge" that he was behind the JFK assassination?
And if he wasn't, he was the one who benefitted the most from his death.
Kennedy and Johnson.
Yes, that's true.
I neglected to mention Kennedy.
Halliburton.
He and his wife where, and his children are the biggest founding stock owners.
My $0.02:
-He isn't FDR
-He isn't a Yankee
-He took over from JFK (through no fault of his own)
-He is a Southerner (Texans may dispute that tag - fair enough)
-He waged and escalated a huge war
-He remained an adult during the everyone-back-to-their-childhood 1960s
-He didn't give it the bit-lip, wipe-a-tear routine when talking about poverty, even though he wrote some huge gummint checks.
Same reason we don't often mention Nixon.
Compare to today's liberals where they are rejecting Lieberman for his strong national defense stance.
Reminds me of one of the old stories about LBJ(there were many and who knows which ones were true).
He's tooling around the Johnson Ranch in his station wagon with a host of Secret Service agents in pursuit. Finally, he stops, gets out and proceeds to unzip his fly to relieve himself. Instinctively, the agents circle around the president while he's making his bladder gladder. The wind kicks up and moves his stream against the leg of an agent. The agent says "Mr. President, you're peeing on me!" The president replies, "son, that's my privilege."
"I have a "progressive" friend that truly believes that Nixon started the war."
Your progressive friend is an idiot. But then, aren't most of them?
Sometimes they mention his name to pay tribute to Medicare, Voting Rights Act, etc., but they hold him at arm's length because they're scared of his many failures in Vietnam and the so-called "War on Poverty".
You couldn't be more right about this & it's an excellent question, because he did more to advance the reach of the all-powerful nanny-state so near & dear to the heart of those who call themselves "liberal", although there's nothing remotely liberal about the idea that average citizens' lives have to forcibly managed from cradle to grave by those who fancy themselves more enlightened, than anybody. But I think Tijeras Slim is on to something: there seems to be the taint of sainted Kennedy blood on the man, at least in their eyes.
And if he wasn't, he was the one who benefitted the most from his death.
Libs are combatting that one with Nixon was behind JFK's assasination. A book is coming out saying that Nixon knew about JFK being on the mafia hit list for his war on organized crime. Oh brother!!
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