LBJ, please come back!

[Brigid]

I like Obama a lot, but I just salivate at the prospect of someone like you dealing with the likes of John Boehner and the lunatic right wing pundits, and cheering on the protesters in WI and other places.

[virgogal]

1. Welllll.there was that Vietnam thing.

[bobbolink]

7. Yeah, it was only ONE. Piker. It never occurred to him to inherit AND

continue TWO wars.

Silly man.

[Brigid]

9. I think LBJ was caught in a trap not of his own making on that one.

There was also the civil rights thing and the Medicare thing.

[virgogal]

10. You're right,but the war was like a millstone around his neck.

[uppityperson]

2. No. Way.

[xchrom]

3. Recommend

[Moondog]

4. Oh, HELL no.

I lived through that shit. No way. No fucking way.

[bobbolink]

8. Yeah cuz its so much better to kill off the poor folk, rather than lift them out of poverty.

Oh, but you haven't lived through that, so it doesn't matter.

[Moondog]

12. You are assuming facts not in evidence.

But thanks for playing.

[bobbolink]

13. This may be a game to YOU, but I can assure you, poor people cut off with NO RESOURCES don't conside

it "playing".

Of course... I'm sure you're right... our corporate media IS reporting all the suicides.

Or, you could wait until we have the evidence... all the dead bodies. I'm sure that would be a lot more satisfying.

[uppityperson]

16. I am glad you have me on ignore. Hugs.

[uppityperson]

17. bobbo can read minds and knows all about all our financial histories

rather like santa, but in reverse

[pacalo]

5. He would have been involved already. When Hurricane Betsy hit south Louisiana

in 1965, he was there on site the next morning.

Here's how he handled that crisis:

I have ordered that all red tape be cut. Our assistance will be given the highest priority. The Department of Agriculture is already providing emergency food at food stations such as we visited. They've been set up by the Red Cross and the help of other local agencies. Troops from Fort Polk have called into action to prevent starvation and to protect life and property. The Small Business Administration, under the direction of Gene Foley, will tomorrow morning begin processing the first long-term loans in New Orleans. The Corps of Engineers is at work tonight, opening levees and dikes and removing debris. But we're ready to do much more. Within the hour, Governor McKeithen asked us to declare Louisiana a disaster area. We will so declare it tonight. At that moment, I will immediately order the following:

One, we will allocate the funds necessary to rebuild the streets, highways and bridges. We will repair essential facilities such as public buildings, docks, hospitals and schools. Two, we will distribute through the Red Cross the medicine and the food necessary to carry the victims through the emergency period. Three, we will provide temporary housing and emergency shelter. Four, we will supply federal equipment for construction, repair and clearing. Five, we will assist veterans to retain their homes by a temporary suspension of V.A. mortgage payments.


http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/AV.hom/Hurricane/audio_transcript.shtm

[bobbolink]

6. Damned FUCKING Right! LBJ did more for poor people than ALL the Dems after.

In fact, Dems are now dismantling his very good legislation to cut poverty.

GET BACK HERE, LBJ, AND TAKE THESE IDIOT DEMS TO THE WOOODSHED!

[jefferson_dem]

19. So we have to reach back nearly half a century to find a president / congress who has done more...

for "the cause" than the current. Not a bad record, eh?

[bobbolink]

20. Oh geeezz..... so its a "good record" to CUT 8.9 BILLION from low-income housing, etc.

On second thought.... I refuse to play with cheerleaders anymore.

I could cite you chapter and verse, and take you by the nose and show you the suffering it is/will cause, and you would still crow that he's just great.

Nothing I or anyone can say that would cause you to have COMPASSION for poor folk.

Bye... if it happens to you, then you might get it. Till then... have fun crowing at the expense of poor people. How low does it go...

[jefferson_dem]

21. Your ignorant sanctimony is quite the bore.

As you've resorted to wild insinuations and personal insults, I'll take it you are unable to disagree with my point - there has been no better record on social policy ... since 1965.

[bobbolink]

23. And your lack of any concern for poor people who are being CUT by this misadministration is ever

so ENTHRALLING.

Then you wonder why people decide its not to important to vote.

Try CARING for others.. you may find it gets you further.

OR, insult those you want to vote.... whatever floats your cheerleader boat.

[msongs]

11. at least he had the courage of his convictions, and actually had convictions so to speak nt

[A Simple Game]

14. Now that is something I never thought I would agree with.

But I do, we need a strong leader. The republicans would be whimpering in a corner if they had LBJ to contend with.

[bobbolink]

15. Yup..... sometimes things look different in retrospect.

We need more Great Society and a whole lot less "Deficit reduction"!!!!

[A Simple Game]

22. It's easy to forget the good that LBJ did and just focus on Vietnam.

Especially when you were of age at the time.

[bobbolink]

25. And I did for a long time, too. As I told another DUer, I clearly remember being at an

anti-war rally in Berkeley, and when the anti-LBJ chants started, I remember a man close to me who quietly said, "Some day we are going to wish we had him back."

That day came sooner for me than I would have ever guessed. When you are older and see some of the stupid stuff that other Dems have done, it puts it in perspective.

[Brigid]

24. Ooh, the mental image!

Republicans cowering in a corner! Me likey! :evilgrin:

[UTUSN]

18. K&R #6 n/t

[DebJ]

26. Ha! Have you been reading comments posted on msnbc's

news stories? Lots of RWers on there pounding at LBJ constantly.
My question: on what have we spent more money: wars, or poverty?