For WCA who makes a fine point. If LBJ had to debate, he would have sounded just like Perry.
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November 12, 2011
November 12, 2011
For WCA who makes a fine point. If LBJ had to debate, he would have sounded just like Perry.
November 12, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Johnaon was,personally, a righteous man. But given the way his not-so-Great Society has enslaved blacks in a welfare sub-culture and drained our finances, his absence from history might have been no big loss.
November 13, 2011 at 2:11 pm
I don’t think that the man intended for the programs to become generational Mary. That was the intent of those that work only to be re elected.
November 13, 2011 at 2:16 pm
OUCH Mary!
I agree with you I think he meant well with his war on poverty, it just wasn’t thought through.
I’m too young to recall Johnson’s tenure, but I do know the programs he started with his great society. Love him or hate him; I can’t imagine the fate of seniors over the past couple of decades without Medicare.
November 13, 2011 at 6:56 pm
He was just different Somebody. In all of Texas politics, I can’t recall anyone similar to the man.
November 14, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Johnson was a disciple of FDR, under whom he began his Congressional career. He’s had many decades to see that there’s no such thing as a reversible govt give-away program.
Allegedly, FDR did not mean Social Security to last forever. Johnson had to know what was likely to happen with give-away-the-store welfare. I do not think, however, that he realized how it would stifle black people’s independence.
November 15, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Mary, most people don’t realize how entitlements keep you sitting at the back of the bus.
November 15, 2011 at 7:09 pm
McN,
I’m guessing that when the hand is held out, palm up, the critical faculty shuts off:L”Gimme,” not “let me think about it.”
November 13, 2011 at 6:38 am
It’s like ridin’ a wire fence….lol
November 13, 2011 at 7:14 am
Johnson was a wife-beating baboon.
November 13, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Baboon, maybe he’d even agree with you…wife beater? No,
November 13, 2011 at 2:24 pm
A wife beating baboon Nom? OUCH!!
I’m not sure I’m familiar with the charges of wife beating.
My step-grandfather and LBJ were cousins, although they were not particularly close they did both keep in touch with some of the same relatives. I may have heard a LOT of stories about LBJ, but I don’t believe I ever recall hearing about wife beating.
November 13, 2011 at 6:57 pm
He liked to drink a lot, but wife beating was not LBJ. I have fairly good sources on that.
November 13, 2011 at 3:26 pm
Ladybird woulda decked him…She was a tough lady.
November 13, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Oh yeah, she would not have held back.
November 13, 2011 at 8:25 pm
There are MANY reports of his humiliating his wife in public; his wife never stood up for herself against him; loads of affairs, I have seen many accounts of his being a wife beater, not to mention his mistress (Madeleine Brown) gave an interview stating he made remarks that led her to believe he was involved in the Kennedy assassination or at least had prior knowledge. Baboon is mild.
Read the Caro books.
November 13, 2011 at 9:48 pm
He was verbally abusive Nom, that is all. Unless you are there, that is utter bs As for Madeleine, I don’t believe much that she says. The fact that she was his mistress paints a different picture altogether.
November 14, 2011 at 10:08 am
when you are talking about someone who would pee down his own secret service man’s leg, I’d say all bets are off.
November 14, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Which isn’t to say that all secret service men are necessarily trustworthy.