LBJ quotes

[Bucky]

just to start your day thinking:

• This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

• It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty.

• It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

• I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

• There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

• A man without a vote is a man without protection.

• No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

• The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.

• For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

His record on his war is appalling, but don't let anyone get away with comparing our Texas warmonger with their Texas warmonger. LBJ had a big, if flawed, heart; and it bled every time a soldier of his died.


PS: Lady Bird must've been a saint.

• I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

[RB TexLa]

1. A funny quote from him

some Air Force base and an airman was leading him to the helicopter, told him "Sir, your helicopter is around here somewhere." To which LBJ replied, "Son, they're all mine."

[genie_weenie]

2. LBJ was just another Tyrant

who thought he knew best how to help his fellow man by creating more and more crushing Governmental controls on the People and sending them to die in a far away place for Words.

The current one sends men to die in far away places for Profit...

[kilgore65]

3. LBJ was a fucking war criminal ...

May he rot in hell forever.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

5. LBJ on his worst day was a 100x better than any repug president

since Lincoln. LBJ was flawed but at least he had a soul and suffered over every single life lost in Viet Nam. (Have you seen the picture of LBJ taken in his office late one night while he got the casualty reports - he clearly showed he was dying inside.) LBJ made huge mistakes in Viet Nam but he also brought us Civil Rights laws, Medicaid, and Medicare. Chucklenuts just makes jokes and then goes clears "brush." (Brush an euphemism for boiking Condi.) LBJ died with the stain of Viet Nam on his record, I just wish that people remember the good things, too.

There is no comparison between LBJ and ANY repug. PERIOD.

[Selatius]

10. I'm sure the people who died in Viet Nam really care about that.

As far as death counts go, LBJ beat Bush hands down. To the dead, what difference does it make who did the killing?

Sure, on economic policy he was better than Bush any day of the week, but if you want to get into comparisons, LBJ was most definitely not better than Bush in several arenas. LBJ was a war criminal. The only people who won Viet Nam were the war profiteers.

[AngryAmish]

4. Here is LBJ ordering pants

You must listen to the tape.

[Bucky]

6. Wonderful! That's my Johnson!

[MrCoffee]

7. There's a man who likes a little stride in his crotch.

Say what you will about LBJ, he knew a good pair of pants when he wore 'em.

[rug]

8. I haven't heard anyone so enthused about a pair of pants outside of Bravo.

[Selatius]

9. Brown & Root won a lot of contracts in Viet Nam.

Coincidentally, LBJ had many connections with this firm.

Also, Brown & Root would later be merged with another company and then get bought out by yet another firm. They became known as Kellog, Brown & Root instead, a division of none other than Halliburton.

Who was once CEO of Halliburton? Dick Cheney.

[kilgore65]

12. Yes, Brown and Root built

the Cam Ranh naval base, which was one of the largest such bases in the world. Billions of dollars.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Separating LBJ from the mass murder he committed is pathetic.

Like saying that Hitler brought full employment to Germany and Mussolini made the trains run on time.