06-05-2012, 05:47 AM
"But for a few brief years, Lyndon Johnson, once a fairly conventional Southern Democrat, constrained by his constituents and his overriding hunger for power, rose above his political past and personal limitations, to embrace and promote his boyhood dreams of opportunity and equality for all Americans. After all the years of striving for power, once he had it, he said to the American people, "I'll let you in on a secret I mean to use it." And use it he did to pass the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the open housing law, the antipoverty legislation, Medicare and Medicaid, Head Start and much more."
None of which has done anything to limit or even address the imbalance of power between the have-nots and the haves -- let alone the existence of LBJ's (and just about every other president's) string-pullers.
Ask Trayvon Martin about civil rights. Ask American voters in the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 about voting rights. Ask the working poor about anti-poverty legislation. Ask those without health insurance about health care. Ask the Idiot Class about Head Start. And much more.
Ahh, boyhood dreams ...
Like being in a position (so to speak) to ejaculate on employees ...
Bill Clinton is full of shit. He's too smart not to know it.
Bill Clinton took John Kennedy's hand in peace ... much as Caesar's hand was taken and held on the Ides of March.
Shame on you, Bill Clinton.
None of which has done anything to limit or even address the imbalance of power between the have-nots and the haves -- let alone the existence of LBJ's (and just about every other president's) string-pullers.
Ask Trayvon Martin about civil rights. Ask American voters in the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 about voting rights. Ask the working poor about anti-poverty legislation. Ask those without health insurance about health care. Ask the Idiot Class about Head Start. And much more.
Ahh, boyhood dreams ...
Like being in a position (so to speak) to ejaculate on employees ...
Bill Clinton is full of shit. He's too smart not to know it.
Bill Clinton took John Kennedy's hand in peace ... much as Caesar's hand was taken and held on the Ides of March.
Shame on you, Bill Clinton.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene