Who was the last Democratic president who really stood up for progressive principals?

[WI_DEM]

Too bad he got caught up in Vietnam--but on domestic affairs I would say LBJ

[WingDinger]

1. And, you could ask FR, when was the last TRUE conservative.

And get the same answer. Course, their knee jerk reaction will be Reagan. And he raised taxes like the radical he is/was.

[TheKentuckian]

2. LBJ, Carter in areas.

[damntexdem]

3. Jimmy Carter, though not very effectively.

And, hey, LBJ got the Great Society legislation through -- so we even have a Medicare and a Medicaid, and so much more.

But then he betrayed us by massive escalating the war in Vietnam.

[WingDinger]

6. Jimmy failed, cuz he didnt catapult the propaganda. Mindlessly repeating his stump speech.

[hifiguy]

4. Agreed.

LBJ was by all accounts a fairly unpleasant human being, but he did more good for more people in terms of domestic policy than any president since FDR. He never forgot what it was like to be raised poor.

[spanone]

5. no president has had to put up with a congress made up of so many assholes

[joeybee12]

7. Those are great photos...the second one was brave, considering the times, the third was

important symbolically to show a President's concern for the poor...try getting any Dem to do that these days.

[JDPriestly]

8. I would agree with you, but owed too much to Brown & Root

(predecessor of Halliburton) and maybe to help them out, decided to let them pave portions of Viet Nam.

The whole taxpayer handouts to war contractors got a big boost in that project.

I do not think that the Viet Nam war was staged just to help the business supporters of Johnson.

I met up with Vietnamese Communists in France around that time. They were really vicious, real Communists. Heartless and cruel. So I don't think the war was manufactured.

But the link between Johnson and certain defense contractors in Viet Nam was a harbinger of Bush II's largesse with American tax revenues to defense contractors in Iraq.

[AndyTiedye]

9. Carter

Reagan sent the country on a seemingly-unstoppable rightward trajectory.
He also ended the Fairness Doctrine — since then there has been no way to present progressive ideas to the masses.
We try to do it with the Internet, but all we are able to do here is preach to the choir.

[Davis_X_Machina]

10. Too bad he got caught up in Vietnam...

...apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

[tridim]

11. Obama.

[undeterred]

12. Principles, Carter and LBJ

[monmouth]

13. Is that Harry and Bess Truman in the first photo on the right? Love it...n/t

[Vidar]

14. Carter & LBJ.