Connie_Corleone
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Mon Jan-19-09 05:20 PM
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| 17. Yippee! Something else to be outraged over! |
| -Why has Obama not mentioned LBJ at all? |
EconomicLiberal |
Jan-19-09 04:44 PM |
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Vietnam toxicity. |
Lasher |
Jan-19-09 04:47 PM |
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Casts a shadow? |
Radical Activist |
Jan-19-09 04:48 PM |
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Johnson was a racist who opposed civil rights during his term in the Senate. |
Hanse |
Jan-19-09 04:48 PM |
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As Senate Majority Leader he passed two Civil Rights Bills and supported them |
WI_DEM |
Jan-19-09 04:59 PM |
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correct |
Neecy |
Jan-19-09 05:02 PM |
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Civil rights? |
Baby Snooks |
Jan-19-09 08:58 PM |
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He also voted against banning lynching, banning poll taxes, and school desegregation. |
Hanse |
Jan-19-09 05:09 PM |
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And as President |
Thothmes |
Jan-19-09 07:45 PM |
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For my generation (draft age) LBJ was a slimeball warmonger |
Submariner |
Jan-19-09 04:48 PM |
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He merely finished what JFK started in June of 1963 with Congress. |
SunsetDreams |
Jan-19-09 04:50 PM |
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JFK and congress didn't propose the voting rights act |
WI_DEM |
Jan-19-09 05:00 PM |
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I should of specified Civil Rights Act |
SunsetDreams |
Jan-19-09 05:03 PM |
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Merely? |
nsd |
Jan-19-09 05:35 PM |
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He did, but he also escalated the war...Some think JFK might not have done that. |
ChimpersMcSmirkers |
Jan-19-09 06:05 PM |
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Yeah, but he also finished JFK. |
RandomKoolzip |
Jan-19-09 10:04 PM |
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LBJ left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. |
baldguy |
Jan-19-09 04:52 PM |
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LBJ was a complicated man and he made mistakes-but he was no Nixon. |
MichiganVote |
Jan-19-09 08:35 PM |
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Obama better hurry up and mention |
ObamaVision |
Jan-19-09 04:55 PM |
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LBJ is tainted by Vietnam; too controversial. |
sparosnare |
Jan-19-09 04:55 PM |
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Because of Dallas? |
stillcool47 |
Jan-19-09 05:02 PM |
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Find something new to complain about? |
hnmnf |
Jan-19-09 05:11 PM |
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possibly because at the end of MLK's life, LBJ snubbed him because MLK was very anti war. |
mucifer |
Jan-19-09 05:14 PM |
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Yippee! Something else to be outraged over! |
Connie_Corleone |
Jan-19-09 05:20 PM |
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Is there something that LBJ said that can be remembered? |
FrenchieCat |
Jan-19-09 06:01 PM |
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It is not what LBJ said, but what he accomplished. |
EconomicLiberal |
Jan-19-09 06:04 PM |
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True. |
PM Martin |
Jan-19-09 06:11 PM |
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Why? Did LBJ organize the United States in order to win an election, |
FrenchieCat |
Jan-19-09 06:29 PM |
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You can not judge the merits of a presidency based on a popularity poll. |
EconomicLiberal |
Jan-19-09 06:38 PM |
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Again, |
FrenchieCat |
Jan-19-09 06:53 PM |
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I never said that war wasn't important in the grand scheme. |
EconomicLiberal |
Jan-19-09 07:00 PM |
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You can't judge LBJ in a vaccum of some of his accomplishment |
FrenchieCat |
Jan-19-09 07:17 PM |
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Distract us from the 32,000 Americans Killed |
Thothmes |
Jan-19-09 07:49 PM |
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Because he doesn't need to court the left.... |
Clio the Leo |
Jan-19-09 06:15 PM |
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Which democrat mentions LBJ? |
Uzybone |
Jan-19-09 06:17 PM |
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LBJ has some very important accomplishments that every Democrat should be grateful for |
EconomicLiberal |
Jan-19-09 06:22 PM |
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I agree with you on this topic only, but its not just Obama |
Uzybone |
Jan-19-09 06:24 PM |
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Nixon and the Congress had their share of blood on their hands too |
MichiganVote |
Jan-19-09 08:34 PM |
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LBJ is a lot more controversial than the icons Obama has elected to |
No Elephants |
Jan-19-09 06:33 PM |
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LBJ should be fondly remembered by nonwhites.. |
fadedrose |
Jan-19-09 06:39 PM |
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*sigh* More poutrage from the Great Society "community." |
hulklogan |
Jan-19-09 06:40 PM |
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Damn him! Start impeachment proceedings now! That ungrateful bastard! |
dadsblacksheep |
Jan-19-09 06:41 PM |
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Probably to avoid getting blasted for "revering a warmonger" |
TheKentuckian |
Jan-19-09 07:25 PM |
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LBJ was mentioned |
H2O Man |
Jan-19-09 07:57 PM |
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Oh yeah.....Right around this time last year. |
FrenchieCat |
Jan-19-09 07:59 PM |
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Actually LBJ'S landslide was bigger than Obama's |
girl_interrupted |
Jan-19-09 09:02 PM |
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"I VOTED FOR LBJ!" |
JVS |
Jan-19-09 08:27 PM |
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How could we forget |
Uzybone |
Jan-19-09 08:28 PM |
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I think LBJ was not spympathetic to the plight of blacks. He under- |
Tutonic |
Jan-19-09 09:00 PM |
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He did. He muscled the legislation through and said he knew he was losing the South |
terisan |
Jan-19-09 10:01 PM |
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Like Republicans don't mention Eisenhower? |
terisan |
Jan-19-09 10:04 PM |
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I agree |
prodn2000 |
Jan-19-09 10:02 PM |
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