Posted on 05/17/2014 6:43:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Standing on his presidential limousine, Lyndon Johnson, campaigning in Providence, R.I., in September 1964, bellowed through a bullhorn: “We’re in favor of a lot of things and we’re against mighty few.” This was a synopsis of what he had said four months earlier.
Fifty years ago this Thursday, at the University of Michigan, Johnson had proposed legislating into existence a Great Society. It would end poverty and racial injustice, “but that is just the beginning.” It would “rebuild the entire urban United States” while fending off “boredom and restlessness,” slaking “the hunger for community” and enhancing “the meaning of our lives” — all by assembling “the best thought and the broadest knowledge.”
In 1964, 76 percent of Americans trusted government to do the right thing “just about always or most of the time”; today, 19 percent do. The former number is one reason Johnson did so much; the latter is one consequence of his doing so.
Barry Goldwater, Johnson’s 1964 opponent who assumed that Americans would vote to have a third president in 14 months, suffered a landslide defeat. After voters rebuked FDR in 1938 for attempting to “pack” the Supreme Court, Republicans and Southern Democrats prevented any liberal legislating majority in Congress until 1965. That year, however, when 68 senators and 295 representatives were Democrats, Johnson was unfettered.
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In you pathetic mental fog I would recommend a couple of recent publications on the assassination, but I’m not sure you could find someone to read them to you what with your nasty littleman attitude.
The military industrial complex profit gaggle who owned Lyndon wanted a drawn out war to increase profit margins and manipulate currencies. Goldwater might not have been in their pockets, so lies and full media whoredom blitz was used to portray the man as insane. Evil is enhanced when devils like LBJ are in power. Kind of like now, with little barry bastard boy of the current regime peddling racist as his schtick, his zeitspittle.
Where the heck have you been the last five years. Obama leads your list by such a wide margin, he’s in another galaxy.
You started the nasty talk... I can keep it up as long as you want.
As to your conspiracy fantasies; Which flavor is your favorite? Mafia? Castro? CIA? LBJ? Space Aliens? Which of the book hustlers have you been giving your money to?
Oh my, have you found someone to read something to you? Well then, you might want to start with the recently unclassified Warren report, where it is revealed without much effort that the single bullet fantasy is debunked, the necessity for more than one person to be involved in the plot and carrying it out is revealed, and the ... oh, never mind. A closed little mind like yours couldn’t get much out of truth when fantasy is your flavor.
Well, I was actually referencing past prez's, but give obama a chance...I'm sure he'll rise to the top.
He has such potential to be the best at being the worst, I'm sure he'll do it.
But the turd ain't done yet...we still got two more years of his crap.
Who knows...he may rescind all his Executive Orders, fire his entire cabinet and then slit his wrists.
Hey, it could happen.
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