Which President in the last fifty years did the most for minorities?

[elperromagico]

Poll question: Which President in the last fifty years did the most for minorities?

[JI7]

1. without Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson would be one of the greatest presidents

we have ever had. and i give him a lot of credit for the good he did. i'm not one to write him off because of the vietnam war. but the vietnam war does taint his legacy. but he did great things for minorities, the poor, and many others.

[jo35042]

3. Yes, Lyndon Johnson was

pretty amazing in his ability to get legislation done, to actually make things happen on the hill.

He was a casuality of Viet Nam like many others. The legacy will haunty his memory for as long as people can remember.

And He didn't start it, he just stayed in where Kennedy was going to get out. He actually thought we ought to try to win it.

[JI7]

10. unlike today, i don't think their intentions were evil

at least johnson did decide not to run for re-election when he saw what a mess vietnam had become. can you ever see bush doing that ? bush who couldn't think of any mistakes. what an asshole he is. and of course many from the lyndon johnson administration admitted the mistakes and wrongs while those in the bush administration just seem not to care. the same goes for those in the nixon administration, many of whom are now in the bush administration.



compare vietnam to japan. and i noticed that during wwII fdr and truman had scholars educated in the culture ,history and other things about the country. during vietnam much of that was ignored. such as how most vietnamese just wanted to unite and be left alone after YEARS of invasion from outsiders trying to take over or divide them. it doesn't just go back to the french before us but the chinese also.

[OKNancy]

12. The thing about Johnson and the war is...

unlike the pretend Bush, Johnson was anguished and deeply troubled by the whole thing. He left office, and I'm convinced it killed him.

[JI7]

2. who the fuck voted for ronald reagan ?

i hope that was a vote by mistake or a joke.

[Kahuna]

4. Reagan had the very worst relationships with blacks. The very..

reason why whites love him so much is because of how evil he was towards blacks.

[jo35042]

5. perhaps we have a spy

in our midst, or a maroon.

[benburch]

6. We do have our freeper insurgents here...

but when we find them, its not pretty. No. Not pretty at all.

[davidinalameda]

11. what we do to freeper morans

:nuke:

gods I miss being a moderator sometimes

[Anarcho-Socialist]

7. Maybe someone misread the poll as...

...Who screwed over the minorities the most?

[charlyvi]

8. RONALD REAGAN!!!!

For sure.

[H2O Man]

9. LBJ overall.

Clearly LBJ did the most for blacks and Mexican-Americans. Of course, his Vietnam policy did a lot of damage to those same minorities.

For Native Americans, Nixon did by far the most good. Surprisingly, the Elder Bush did significant good. Few people outside his small circle realize that he actually listened to the traditional elders of the Native Americans on a couple environmental issues. I say this only to be accurate: I think Nixon and Bush were terrible presidents. But for some strange reasons, they did far more for Native Americans than a Jimmy Carter.

[elperromagico]

13. Ahh, our first Bush* vote.

Send us a postcard sometime from whatever alternate reality you're from, whoever you are.