I wish DU had been around since the '60s.

[11 Bravo]

It would be interesting to have a baseline with which to compare the antipathy, ridicule, and outright contempt that was directed towards white Democratic Presidents (yeah, I fucking said it) such as Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton; who attempted to govern from the center/left, to that aimed at our current Democratic Chief Executive.

[guruoo]

1. That would prove to be too much of a reality check for some, IMO

k&r, BTW. :thumbsup:

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[Lint Head]

2. Apples and oranges comparison.

What was done in the 60's was incremental progress. It took Nixon, Reagan, Ford, Bush 1 and 2 to undo any progressive progress. Currently we are witnessing the undoing of the rest. SS, MEDICARE, human rights, individual rights all being undone. Also crimes at the highest level of governmental power going unpunished.

[rug]

3. I don't. We'd be typing about Medicare instead of going to Washington to stop a war.

[Cleita]

4. I think the administrators might have been

a wink in their daddies' eyes back then.

[johnnie]

5. Hell, even through the Clinton years

This place would have been more of a madhouse.

[EFerrari]

6. Kennedy was burned in effigy, too, and I remember my mom being afraid

for him to go to Texas.

[WillyT]

8. Well...

The Progressive Left abandoned LBJ as the Vietnam War got worse and worse, and as the PL got Democrats to run against LBJ, he bailed out on the Presidency.

The PL got disillusioned with Carter, and many backed Teddy Kennedy when he chose to challenge Jimmy Carter at the end of Carter's first term.

The PL grew more and more disillusioned with Bill Clinton, and the only reason they stayed supportive of Clinton at all, was the sheer insanity displayed by the Republican Nut-Jobs.

The same impetus exists for some of Obama's support today... protect us from the RW Nutjobs.

I really don't think, from the Progressive Liberal POV, it really had a lot to do with race.

:shrug:

[discocrisco01]

10. Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh says that white vote is abandoning from Obama. What he does not realize is that most us are leaving Obama, not because we are racist, because he rely on failed solutions from the right instead of making a bold, fearless turn to the hard left.

[jwirr]

9. It would have been a hot time when Johnson was in - we were demonstrating

and screaming bloody murder. Why do you think he did not run for a second term?

[frylock]

11. wasn't kennedy (D-white) assassinated?