It may be horrible ad but the American people they needed to know the truth. LBJ he was a good US President & Reagan has no reason why to critizice him for being soft on Communist. In 1964, where was Reagan @ the time? Oh yes unemployee actor who never supported the 1964 rights for African Americans!
Americans had it bad, the Republicans were stupid enough to nominate a bigger douchebag than Lyndon Johnson, that's like finding a fatter man than Ruben Studdard.
why would you disable embedding? do you own this video? does it cost you something to let someone embed it? do you realize there are 5 million copies of it on youtube? go fuck yourself.
It's still a scary time, when politicians from both sides are more interested in their own little piece of power and the dominance of their party than they are about the welfare of the country. Politics has degenerated into a miasma of name calling and lies.
@goodbadugly16 When he refused to consider pulling out of Vietnam when he had the chance? Of course he wasn't; if anything, he and other politicians preferred to keep sponsoring wars in the name of american security!
yeah they said that this aired one time and he won the election. he was saying vote for me, and we live and if you vote for goldwater, you get a nuclear war..and we all die. i was bored and looked this up bc my english teacher said we needed to.
The ad was low, but mild by LBJ standards. LBJ committed abuses of power during the '64 election that made Watergate pale in comparison. J. Edgar Hoover openly admitted to bugging Goldwater's campaign plane on Johnson's orders and CIA director Colby admitted to using CIA agents to spy on Goldwater and obtain advance copies of his speeches and policy proposals to allow LBJ to preempt then with speeches of his own. Quite simply, LBJ was a criminal.
its legal for the cia to bug phones, and monitor people in the government (they do it all the time, cant have people with power running around like retards) thats not the same thing as actually breaking into the enemy parties hq or using your political power to rig an election. the cia's job is to monitor people, that includes those in our own government on occasion. goldwater was a major risk, specifically with his nuke rhetoric.
exactly, he was probably one of the greatest politicians we ever had, with all of the implications that term can bring. If i were of age at the time, i would have been protesting him though, ... its a real tragedy..
wtf are you talking about? we were crying for him to defend us from the communists, that included giving american support to non communist governments fighting russian backed aggressors. lets not forget that war lasted longer than his presidency. johnson tried his best to fix america and the world and wound up failing. meanwhile people are still sucking reagans dick.
no one was crying for him to defend us from the communists, we imposed our will on that country. its a mistake to think that we were fighting communism, we were involved in a civil war over in a far away place. Just like now in Iraq, we were never in danger.
It sounds to me like you want to defend him because he was a democrat, but you cannot defend the indefensible. All those deaths were for naught. as long as we keep making the same mistakes, we will forever be celebrating the dead.
LOL you dont think the soviets were doing the same thing? where do you think the nva got all their weapons ammo and advanced surface to air missiles? you are aware that the soviet union at that time was poised to strike at any minute correct? do you even fucking know what mad and the arms buildup were? lbj was trying to keep it conventional, and fortunately succeeded. we were involved in what was the last of several civil wars funded by both sides of the iron curtain and fought in proxy.
and in the case of the vietnam war it was demanded by our own country, the voters, because to them it was seen as communist agression, while it wasnt, we still had the duty to assist the french in any way we could to keep a strong footing against the soviets. remember the war started in 1963 (with american involvement in advisors and aid into the 50s) iraq is an entirely different matter, we were assisting an ally in vietnam, it wasnt an invasion in any sense of the word.
while that doesnt excuse the action itself, it was a crime of the time period, where we were if either side showed weakness, the result could very well have been the extermination of the entire human race. and we sure as fuck better keep celebrating the dead, and we shouldnt forget the sacrifices of either the vietnamese or the american gi's thats the whole fucking point of memorial day you retard.
oh almost forgot, i dont like lbj because hes a democrat, i like lbj because he was one of the last progressives, who thought government should be used to help the people, i dont neccissarily agree with the way he went about it, (projects for instance) which were neccissary compromises. in a speech about vietnam he mentions that we are supposed to believe in these ideas, freedom, liberty, equality, and supposed to be willing to fight and die for them. that i agree with.
actually, your explanation doesnt explain it correctly. we were helping an "ally" that we created, we were helping the french back into the colonies that they lost during wwII. we should have stuck by the Atlantic Charter and left the VN to their own destiny.
lol helping the french back into the colonies? they kept the colonies, and installed the south vietnamese leaders as colonial rulers, then switched it to a republic as we were coming in. it was still under french control and protection when we began our aid of it.
why are you so angry? of course I know quite a bit about the cold war. It still doesnt excuse the fact that we got involved in a situation that was avoidable and many many people died for it. it wasnt as though we made one move, but rather a whole calculated series of events based on faulty reasoning. exactly like Iraq.
you should calm down and reflect on what a miserable failure his presidency was, and what promise it had.
you clearly know nothing of the cold war, we went into vietnam because it challenged the balance between east and west, if that balance was tipped it could mean the end of the world, literally (which is why this ad exists), in 1963 both countries had enough nukes to destroy the entire surface area of the planet several times over. we went into iraq for no reason at all aside from bush being the pocket of defense contractors and wanting a legacy.
johnsons presidency gave us apollo, attempted to give us socialized medicine (and partialy succeeded, medicare and medicaid), gave us civil rights and kept the country from being destroyed by both itself and the soviet union. i dont see how those are failures. reagan gave us the war on drugs, lbj gave us the war on poverty, which do you think is worth fighting? marijuana or unemployment? youre a republican arent you?
Johnson/McNamara fought an honorable war (against Soviet imperialism) as poorly and dishonorably as it could be fought. And his attempt to solve poverty by throwing money at impoverished people and making them dependent on welfare (and marginalizing the role of fathers in the process) was a godawful failure. Reagan was vastly more competent than LBJ was.
The war on poverty was a miserable failure, much like the current war on Islamic terrorists has been.
Now THAT's what I call a political ADVERTISEMENT... Not the mudslinging of modern politics, but a real appeal to the American public stressing the importance of voting at least as much as for whom to vote... Of course, societal mores have utterly collapsed compared to this, and it wasn't all that long ago....
I don't know why, but when I saw this I almost completely broke down in tears D:
ajle9550 8 months ago
that chick cant even count
mkb0033 9 months ago 3
I was alive then
tomdonnelly1154 10 months ago
ROTFLMAO........nine nine SKADOOSH
bakumasterz12 1 year ago
Thumbs up if BBC brought you here.
Lukergamer 1 year ago 53
@Lukergamer
Yes it did
maneesh77 1 year ago
our teacher showed this in our ap gov class and boy were we scared when we saw that mushroom cloud
Desi1204 1 year ago
It may be horrible ad but the American people they needed to know the truth. LBJ he was a good US President & Reagan has no reason why to critizice him for being soft on Communist. In 1964, where was Reagan @ the time? Oh yes unemployee actor who never supported the 1964 rights for African Americans!
royaladam 1 year ago
Americans had it bad, the Republicans were stupid enough to nominate a bigger douchebag than Lyndon Johnson, that's like finding a fatter man than Ruben Studdard.
DominoRyder 1 year ago
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dsriggs 1 year ago
this is fucking child abuse! it suck old harry monkey balls!
Mum2Boys 1 year ago
badass commercial
PeterSmeter 1 year ago
Johnson didnt fuck around in Congress. He could get things done.
Goobelham 1 year ago
why would you disable embedding? do you own this video? does it cost you something to let someone embed it? do you realize there are 5 million copies of it on youtube? go fuck yourself.
burrdturgler 1 year ago 2
I'm way smarter than her because I can count to 10.
remakesformoney 1 year ago 5
@remakesformoney there were actually 11 petals
bennykeane 1 year ago
i cant believe that was on air for one, yes, ONE day and he got so many votes! That was.... impressive to day the leaste, but his presidency SUCKED!
DOTMDragonTaang 1 year ago
Ironic because Johnson was an awful president
SpideyNinety08 1 year ago
It's still a scary time, when politicians from both sides are more interested in their own little piece of power and the dominance of their party than they are about the welfare of the country. Politics has degenerated into a miasma of name calling and lies.
nyingma13 2 years ago
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wtfbollos 2 years ago
Dirty Texas politics hehe
japanesebusinessdood 2 years ago
it was a dirty campaign ad, but my god...
my god, it makes a powerful statement against war.
Nomad1718 2 years ago 24
@Nomad1718 Yeah because LBJ proved to be a very good anti-war president.
goodbadugly16 1 year ago
@goodbadugly16 When he refused to consider pulling out of Vietnam when he had the chance? Of course he wasn't; if anything, he and other politicians preferred to keep sponsoring wars in the name of american security!
Nomad1718 1 year ago
:O ooo
LoveIsReal45 2 years ago
Run this exact ad in 2012 against Palin, and Obama should win at least 480 electoral votes. Haha.
Jujuman2003 2 years ago 2
we must either love each other
or we must die
vote for president johnson on november 3
lol ppl vote 4 him cuz he says ppl will die if they dont love hilar.
yoyorocks2 2 years ago
My dad told me that his friends said if: " He voted for Barry Goldwater thousands of Americans would lose their lives in a senseless war"
.. He did .
Johnson was elected.. and thats exactly what happened.
hoffbug 2 years ago
Kinda like now. Sure. Things are being toned down in Iraq.
How many more troops are we sending to Afghanistan?
Silvsilvchan 2 years ago 2
But... LBJ never used nukes!
Gerkinstock 2 years ago
that sure as hell scared the shit out of me lol
what a horrible ad
samfisher874 2 years ago 4
It's how people looked at the world back then...
Everything was black or white, good or evil, life or death.
It was a scary time.
EyeLean5280 2 years ago
A retarded girl has trouble counting to ten. An arrogant LBJ decides to show her 'how it is done' by counting backwards from ten and then nukes her.
patchworkgiant 2 years ago
where is that little girl today? lol.
KatsavesAnimals 2 years ago
0:31
self explanitory (lol)
OVER9000MUDKIPWTF 2 years ago
I dont care how old this ad is, or how it wa sonly aired once, or whatever. Its a huge part of American history, and it gives me chills.
ArmySniper3 2 years ago
yeah they said that this aired one time and he won the election. he was saying vote for me, and we live and if you vote for goldwater, you get a nuclear war..and we all die. i was bored and looked this up bc my english teacher said we needed to.
ilovelexie2013 2 years ago
The ad was low, but mild by LBJ standards. LBJ committed abuses of power during the '64 election that made Watergate pale in comparison. J. Edgar Hoover openly admitted to bugging Goldwater's campaign plane on Johnson's orders and CIA director Colby admitted to using CIA agents to spy on Goldwater and obtain advance copies of his speeches and policy proposals to allow LBJ to preempt then with speeches of his own. Quite simply, LBJ was a criminal.
FAHayek89 3 years ago
Not that low. In fact, this is one of the few times I'm on LBJ's side.
Goldwater had indeed talked about the possibility of his using atomic weapons, should he be elected.
That's not just a gaffe. That's threatening everyone with nuclear war. That's stupid and irresponsible talk - he was asking for it.
EyeLean5280 2 years ago
Let me clarify - I of course support the Civil Rights Act.
What I criticize about LBJ is his treatment of people who disagreed with him (though of course, he can't compare to Nixon in that regard).
EyeLean5280 2 years ago
its legal for the cia to bug phones, and monitor people in the government (they do it all the time, cant have people with power running around like retards) thats not the same thing as actually breaking into the enemy parties hq or using your political power to rig an election. the cia's job is to monitor people, that includes those in our own government on occasion. goldwater was a major risk, specifically with his nuke rhetoric.
marcabfleetcommand 2 years ago
this is scary lol
kutekizzez 3 years ago
the place to start is 0:44
grb1935 3 years ago
back when politicians gave a damn
analogy6 3 years ago
There are politicians who give a damn. But they do do things very differently these days.
EyeLean5280 2 years ago
yeh, LBJ killed a couple million vietnamese, while losing 60,000 of our guys...
maybe not so different...
thescreamingid 2 years ago
Good point.
I've always thought that LBJ was a tragic figure in the classical sense - meaning his own flaws created his downfall.
EyeLean5280 2 years ago
exactly, he was probably one of the greatest politicians we ever had, with all of the implications that term can bring. If i were of age at the time, i would have been protesting him though, ... its a real tragedy..
thescreamingid 2 years ago
wtf are you talking about? we were crying for him to defend us from the communists, that included giving american support to non communist governments fighting russian backed aggressors. lets not forget that war lasted longer than his presidency. johnson tried his best to fix america and the world and wound up failing. meanwhile people are still sucking reagans dick.
marcabfleetcommand 2 years ago
no one was crying for him to defend us from the communists, we imposed our will on that country. its a mistake to think that we were fighting communism, we were involved in a civil war over in a far away place. Just like now in Iraq, we were never in danger.
It sounds to me like you want to defend him because he was a democrat, but you cannot defend the indefensible. All those deaths were for naught. as long as we keep making the same mistakes, we will forever be celebrating the dead.
thescreamingid 2 years ago
LOL you dont think the soviets were doing the same thing? where do you think the nva got all their weapons ammo and advanced surface to air missiles? you are aware that the soviet union at that time was poised to strike at any minute correct? do you even fucking know what mad and the arms buildup were? lbj was trying to keep it conventional, and fortunately succeeded. we were involved in what was the last of several civil wars funded by both sides of the iron curtain and fought in proxy.
marcabfleetcommand 2 years ago
and in the case of the vietnam war it was demanded by our own country, the voters, because to them it was seen as communist agression, while it wasnt, we still had the duty to assist the french in any way we could to keep a strong footing against the soviets. remember the war started in 1963 (with american involvement in advisors and aid into the 50s) iraq is an entirely different matter, we were assisting an ally in vietnam, it wasnt an invasion in any sense of the word.
marcabfleetcommand 2 years ago
while that doesnt excuse the action itself, it was a crime of the time period, where we were if either side showed weakness, the result could very well have been the extermination of the entire human race. and we sure as fuck better keep celebrating the dead, and we shouldnt forget the sacrifices of either the vietnamese or the american gi's thats the whole fucking point of memorial day you retard.
marcabfleetcommand 2 years ago
oh almost forgot, i dont like lbj because hes a democrat, i like lbj because he was one of the last progressives, who thought government should be used to help the people, i dont neccissarily agree with the way he went about it, (projects for instance) which were neccissary compromises. in a speech about vietnam he mentions that we are supposed to believe in these ideas, freedom, liberty, equality, and supposed to be willing to fight and die for them. that i agree with.
marcabfleetcommand 2 years ago 2
actually, your explanation doesnt explain it correctly. we were helping an "ally" that we created, we were helping the french back into the colonies that they lost during wwII. we should have stuck by the Atlantic Charter and left the VN to their own destiny.
thescreamingid 2 years ago
lol helping the french back into the colonies? they kept the colonies, and installed the south vietnamese leaders as colonial rulers, then switched it to a republic as we were coming in. it was still under french control and protection when we began our aid of it.
marcabfleetcommand 2 years ago
why are you so angry? of course I know quite a bit about the cold war. It still doesnt excuse the fact that we got involved in a situation that was avoidable and many many people died for it. it wasnt as though we made one move, but rather a whole calculated series of events based on faulty reasoning. exactly like Iraq.
you should calm down and reflect on what a miserable failure his presidency was, and what promise it had.
thescreamingid 2 years ago
you clearly know nothing of the cold war, we went into vietnam because it challenged the balance between east and west, if that balance was tipped it could mean the end of the world, literally (which is why this ad exists), in 1963 both countries had enough nukes to destroy the entire surface area of the planet several times over. we went into iraq for no reason at all aside from bush being the pocket of defense contractors and wanting a legacy.
marcabfleetcommand 2 years ago
johnsons presidency gave us apollo, attempted to give us socialized medicine (and partialy succeeded, medicare and medicaid), gave us civil rights and kept the country from being destroyed by both itself and the soviet union. i dont see how those are failures. reagan gave us the war on drugs, lbj gave us the war on poverty, which do you think is worth fighting? marijuana or unemployment? youre a republican arent you?
marcabfleetcommand 2 years ago 3
Johnson/McNamara fought an honorable war (against Soviet imperialism) as poorly and dishonorably as it could be fought. And his attempt to solve poverty by throwing money at impoverished people and making them dependent on welfare (and marginalizing the role of fathers in the process) was a godawful failure. Reagan was vastly more competent than LBJ was.
The war on poverty was a miserable failure, much like the current war on Islamic terrorists has been.
Gerkinstock 2 years ago
look, just STFU. This is just an ad for the lulz.
Duvmasta 2 years ago
lol I craped my self
mastershake4000 3 years ago 2
Now THAT's what I call a political ADVERTISEMENT... Not the mudslinging of modern politics, but a real appeal to the American public stressing the importance of voting at least as much as for whom to vote... Of course, societal mores have utterly collapsed compared to this, and it wasn't all that long ago....
OffCenterFold 3 years ago
true dat
ichigo275 3 years ago
Do you understand that this was an attack ad against Goldwater?
FAHayek89 3 years ago
And thaaaaaat'ssssss.......bad?
bass1bone 2 years ago
Good quality.
StubbornCanary 4 years ago