Although this is the most famous TV ad ever produced for a political campaign, it was only aired once and VERY late at night The ad was representitive of the political propaganda of the era if not the political realities. This ad was in response to the GOP's 1964 presidential sacrificial puppet nominee Barry Goldwater and his hard line Conservative platform that PROMISED a nuclear response to any form of Communist expansion or aggression.
Totally agree, so pathetic and outdated! I remember the propaganda in the black and white films I saw when I was in 6th grade that said we would all turn to communism if we didn't kill everyone in Russia. Whenever you have to dig up an old black and white political film, it is kind of ridiculous! Don't ya think?
Yes, I do know it was. I am 50 years old and remember black and white propoganda movies about communism in the 5th and 6th grades. This is EXACTLY the same fear tactics they used in those films. Way outdated, we as a Nation are not falling for this bullshit now.
Yes they did fall and fall hard they did! GWB/cheney/powell did a great sales job. What would have happened if bush had implemented the draft? My guess is that we would have NEVER invaded Iraq. Not enough people were paying attention. Iraq was and is the biggest total catistrophic failure in not only my 50 years but generations to come. Now that we said it is ok to invade a country that has WMD's, I hope all of us are not scratching our asses wondering why we get attacked. Look to this day!
@ObserversEyes The death toll from 65-68 was closer to 36,000 and increased significantly every year during Johnson's presidency. They decreased significantly every year during Nixon's presidency.
WOW!!!! This ad is SOOOO disturbing and has led to the sensationalism of political ads today. What's next, someone breaking in on a candidate and their mistress in a commercial butt naked and penis inserted???
Brilliant. Absolutely unfair, and a scaremongering tactic made to give voter's the idea that Barry Goldwater was an unstable alternative, but a brilliant political ad nevertheless.
For the sake of posterity, it should be noted that the Goldwater anti-communist zeal ended up being triumphant 20 years later with the election of Reagan. But, in 1964, with the Cuban missile crisis still fresh in people's memories, this was a brilliant political ad. it was only ran once before it was pulled.
how can u say that was gay? that was a classic peice of controversial american history presented in an orderly fashion. show me proof that that ad was gay, the girl in it was gay, President Johnson was gay, the daisies were gay, or the bomb was gay and then I will accept your response.
look man im sorry i was bored and i was just going around yt writing dumb shit...i actually heard about this in my us history class and looked it up..i dont hate johnson i think hes one of my fav presidents
It's probably a good thing, too, that the Democrats capitalized on this fear of nuclear war! Goldwater didn't agree with the Brown v Board decision, saying that "The problem of race relations . . . is best handled by the people directly concerned." Although he was not a racist, his rather conservative ideology would have had me concerned for the future of non-whites. Not only that, his loss represented a major turning point: since, blacks have tended to vote Democrat (about 90%)! Golly!
well you can say few people saw it since it as only shown once but remember back then we only had 3 tv channels and if it was shown during the most watched show on any given nite, then over 80% of the tv viewers would have seen it.
Silly castillianwagon actually thinks it was Reagan that won the Cold War. He didn't win it. It was the Soviets that lost it. When everything started to go south, the top people were just climbing over each other to go capitalistic and grab a piece of the pie. Anyway, if Gorbachev hadn't been the guy, it wouldn't have ended anyway. And in the LBJ v Goldwater days, the Soviets were literally 5 minutes from launch.
Actually, during the Cuban missile crisis, Kruschev was getting ready to launch nukes at the US, and only Kennedy's timely call to offer a compromise stopped him. Unfortunately, such a thing really WAS a reality at that time.
Thanks. I do know that part; I'm just entirely unconvinced that the USSR had orchestrated a large-scale nuclear assault on the US. So far as I'm aware, it was mostly blunders on part of the USSR that led to it.
Krushchev wanted no war, it was Kremlin hard liners who wanted to preempt the U.S. By compromising with JFK, Krushchev sacrificed his career--afterwards, JFK's friendship was his biggest asset, when JFK was killed it was only a matter of time that Krushchev would be replaced by someone who would stand up to the United States.
Unfortunately if Goldwater had won and put in a " build up policy to build " down philosophy in the arms race that Reagan did we would have broken the back of the Soviets a good 25 years earlier and we would have avoided Vietnam as a by product !
i think this is not , OMG lets drop bombs and sh!t. i think its saying. "peace can easily be ruined by war, and also not to use nukes" its showing the power of the nuke, and what war does. because back then america was cheering for war, after the earlier ones. so this was describing and comparing 2. or it could be oposite from what i said.. (he could of been for war, not peace... but i doubt)
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.
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you know its funny how republicans got us into all this shit and your trying to defend it. here is a republicans battlecry: WAR!GUNS!OFFSHORE DRILLING!FOX NEW!theres always next election!
oh yeah, cause Lyndon Johnson was such a fucking peacemaker...he was the one who committed the country to the Vietnam War. He seemed just fine with causing a senseless massacre.
The problem actually goes deeper than that. There was a time when American education sought: 1. To make good people 2. To make good citizens 3. And to make each student find some particular talents to develop to the maximum.
But that was before the government transformed American education into a system that creates the apathetic, lethargic dimwits that you describe.
i completely agree even though they were dirty dirty commies it has been awully bad in this world without us having someone to have a cold war with... maybe china?Iran?Pakistan?cuba?heck maybe even russia again who knows!?!?
i feel that the end of the cold war sounded good in the first place but for some reason since then everything has sucked culturally, politically, and in terms of war i think the war on terror would be much different if the soviets were still around
I lived all my life knowing I and the Word had less than a hour to live and now you Republicans are wanting War with Russia to win the White House."MAD" rules in any war with Russia but you Republicans want to fry the world over Georgia and other worthless countries around Russia,OK you fools who piss your pants from fear over Terrorist or Iran having one tiny little A-Bomb well Russia has 10-30,000 H-Bombs ready to fire at every American city above 20,000 people.
Actually the U.S. used atomic weapons. But even so, using atomic weapons was better than the alternative. It saved more civilian and military lives on both the U.S. and Japanese sides.
I'm not sure what you want us to "wake up" to in regards to nuclear weapons.
I'm not actually telling people to wake up in regards to nuclear weapons, It's the adds like this that began to instill fear into Americans for political purpose. For a vote. It's just sad to see things like this.
So you want us to wake up to the fact that ads will use fear tactics? Ok.
I'm glad that you concede to the justifiable use of atomic weapons too. I mean you don't bother to respond, so I'll presume that a lack of response means there is no good response.
On the topic of "Atomic" weapons... I know you made the point that if we hadn't dropped the two bombs there would have been more casualties, but why hasn't there been another dropped by another country? Why doesn't everyone that has one just drop a bomb on an invading country? That is a question that could be debated, times are different, etc. My initial response was regarding the video, A presidential add telling the public to fear a-bombs, when we're the only country that has ever released one
I can't give a specific answer to a vague scenario. Do you have an example of where a nuclear power would have been better off with a nuclear strike, instead of what they actually did?
Generally, I would say that nuclear retaliation would be a great deterrent where rational actors are involved.
As far your critique of the as the ad goes: Are you saying we should only fear the nuclear weapons of nations that have used nuclear weapons?
I also don't like the fact that it was on civilians. I know there were around 40 civilians dead from pearl harbor, but we killed over 200,000 of mostly civilians with the two bombs. If you're going to have a war at least let the people of the military battle it out, win or lose.
Can you name a U.S. military official in charge of policy that "likes" the fact that war kills civilians. I think almost everyone would say that they don't like civilian death in war. That's no type of unique ownership of that ethic.
Prove it! We were killing innocent people on purpose? Because we did not like the fact they were free to worship the way we they wanted like al queada did. You are really anti american to make such a comparison no reasoning with terroist lovers like you
I Think it is very ironic that LBJ painted Goldwater as the warmonger when it was LBJ who got us into Vietnam. (what I mean is that he is the one that started to send in actual troops to do fighting, before him, we only had "advisors")
If you remember in 68, Nixon ran on getting us out of the conflict. (but he didn't, just like Obama will not get us out of foreign conflicts either)
Eisenhower got the US into Vietnam in 1956 when he sent the first batch of "Advisors" to help the French Colonial government and if you think those "advisors" just sat on their hands or gave friendly advice, you would be making a pretty naive assumption
Actually Truman sent aid and a few advisors before Eisenhower sent any to help train the Army.
On September 5th 1956, exactly 52 years ago today, Eisenhower tells a news conference that the French are "involved in a hopelessly losing war in Indochina"
Eisenhower new better than to send troops.
Kennedy sent the first troops in 1961, Pre 1961, there were less than 700 "Advisors"
Kennedy took that to 21,000, then Johnson went into an all out war.
Apparently you haven't met Karl Rove and the Swift Boat Veterans.
At least LBJ's ad deals with facts. Goldwater was a reactionary and as President could have very well started World War III, not so far fetched when you consider the Cuban Missile crisis only a few years prior.
In the end America was better off, and LBJ's Great Society transformed American for the better.
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I was four years old when this ad was around. But just replace Goldwater with McCain pushing the button. The guy wants the war in Iraq to last for a hundred years...and he's just itching to Bomb,bomb,bomb, BOMB IRAN.
No matter what party people vote for, be careful because nowadays you don't know who to trust.
1964? Eleven years later the communist took over South Vietnam. What happen to those stakes?
polarisathena 2 years ago
Hope over fear.
vluckylouie 2 years ago
Although this is the most famous TV ad ever produced for a political campaign, it was only aired once and VERY late at night The ad was representitive of the political propaganda of the era if not the political realities. This ad was in response to the GOP's 1964 presidential sacrificial puppet nominee Barry Goldwater and his hard line Conservative platform that PROMISED a nuclear response to any form of Communist expansion or aggression.
joflo82 2 years ago
My shit is of better quality than this!
Duvmasta 2 years ago
LMAO!
felixpartz 2 years ago
I love this commercial. It relates to today.
Viva neoconservatism!
IBFrattin 2 years ago
This is what the government wants to put on the air waves with their "Fainess Doctrine"
KingKalifor 2 years ago
We must love each other...or we must die. LOL.
JolieAriane 2 years ago
Did that child just explode?
degauze 2 years ago
FEAR is ALL the GOP knows. So pathetic!
phillipmarch22 2 years ago
Too bad this is a Lyndon B Johnson (democrat) ad against Goldwater (republican). So pathetic!
jamboneproductions 2 years ago
Totally agree, so pathetic and outdated! I remember the propaganda in the black and white films I saw when I was in 6th grade that said we would all turn to communism if we didn't kill everyone in Russia. Whenever you have to dig up an old black and white political film, it is kind of ridiculous! Don't ya think?
phillipmarch22 2 years ago
You do know this was a Democratic ad right?
PatMarine 2 years ago
Yes, I do know it was. I am 50 years old and remember black and white propoganda movies about communism in the 5th and 6th grades. This is EXACTLY the same fear tactics they used in those films. Way outdated, we as a Nation are not falling for this bullshit now.
phillipmarch22 2 years ago
"Way outdated, we as a Nation are not falling for this bullshit now"
Really? The public did fall for GWB's campaign for Iraq
Spitzrock 2 years ago
Yes they did fall and fall hard they did! GWB/cheney/powell did a great sales job. What would have happened if bush had implemented the draft? My guess is that we would have NEVER invaded Iraq. Not enough people were paying attention. Iraq was and is the biggest total catistrophic failure in not only my 50 years but generations to come. Now that we said it is ok to invade a country that has WMD's, I hope all of us are not scratching our asses wondering why we get attacked. Look to this day!
phillipmarch22 2 years ago
Wow, that's scary even now!
JessJess242 2 years ago
Thanks to LBJ and JFK begfore him, 56,000 troops died in Viet Nam
williepeeps 2 years ago
exactly
deerecub1977 2 years ago
JFK WAS GOOD!!!!!!!!!
(he would be alive if oswald did not have a itchy trigger finger) i bet you are a republican reply to williepeeps
Octonuke 2 years ago
@williepeeps
By the time LBJ left office the death count in Vietnam was around 28,000. So, the remaining 28,000 can be credited to the Nixon administration.
Source: Robert MacNamara "Fog of War".
ObserversEyes 2 years ago
@ObserversEyes The death toll from 65-68 was closer to 36,000 and increased significantly every year during Johnson's presidency. They decreased significantly every year during Nixon's presidency.
PatMarine 2 years ago
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45centakagotnickel 2 years ago
Guess how many times they played this commercial...
Once.
lol
PartyHardy17 2 years ago 2
Goldwater never had a chance after this.
kbi35 2 years ago
this video quality effing sucks
SOhio142 2 years ago
johnson was a hypocrite
larrabeetypes 2 years ago
wow, that was the worst quality ever
UnreportedResistance 2 years ago
WOW!!!! This ad is SOOOO disturbing and has led to the sensationalism of political ads today. What's next, someone breaking in on a candidate and their mistress in a commercial butt naked and penis inserted???
TheWebmasterJL1 2 years ago
Uhm...
... *That's* not scary... (sarcasm)
highlyxoriginal 2 years ago
This is really scary. She was cute too!
EasyPeasyFleaAndPea 2 years ago 2
Uneducated children will explode! O:
Onitoga 2 years ago 2
Brilliant. Absolutely unfair, and a scaremongering tactic made to give voter's the idea that Barry Goldwater was an unstable alternative, but a brilliant political ad nevertheless.
For the sake of posterity, it should be noted that the Goldwater anti-communist zeal ended up being triumphant 20 years later with the election of Reagan. But, in 1964, with the Cuban missile crisis still fresh in people's memories, this was a brilliant political ad. it was only ran once before it was pulled.
geoffck1969 2 years ago 6
I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU!!! From a political, strategical standpoint, a brilliant ad indeed!
TheWebmasterJL1 2 years ago 2
This ad is disturbing if you think about it.
Jamalz1177 2 years ago
lmao...mad this country is sicc
paper2006 2 years ago
this is disturbing
ally525 2 years ago
It was only showed once. It got pulled off the air after one airing.
FunnyorJessy 2 years ago
It was actually shown more than once. The News Media played it over and over, the ad was only played once, as an ad.
anow2 2 years ago
That ad scared the shit out of me.
northvalley 2 years ago 2
yeah...that was some bizarre shit!
MMAniac76 2 years ago
Reminds me of that commercial from the Bill Murray movie "Scrooged"...."This Christmas Eve, watch Scrooge....your life may just depend on it."
ignoranceandwant 2 years ago
thats a scary ad...
metalmusi 2 years ago
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GAY
Dogwood14 2 years ago
scary
Gta4lover13 2 years ago
how can u say that was gay? that was a classic peice of controversial american history presented in an orderly fashion. show me proof that that ad was gay, the girl in it was gay, President Johnson was gay, the daisies were gay, or the bomb was gay and then I will accept your response.
AustinWorthington 2 years ago 7
exactly. I hate people that say "gay" to something like this.
FunnyorJessy 2 years ago 4
look man im sorry i was bored and i was just going around yt writing dumb shit...i actually heard about this in my us history class and looked it up..i dont hate johnson i think hes one of my fav presidents
Dogwood14 2 years ago
"We must love eachother, or we must die."
Inevitably true.
wefasdf23 2 years ago 4
smartest man on the cinder
LobsterPotsticker 2 years ago 2
Not to subtle but it definitely was affective
waveali 3 years ago 2
That's why Goldwater lost the election to LBJ lol...
kizmatic 3 years ago 6
It's probably a good thing, too, that the Democrats capitalized on this fear of nuclear war! Goldwater didn't agree with the Brown v Board decision, saying that "The problem of race relations . . . is best handled by the people directly concerned." Although he was not a racist, his rather conservative ideology would have had me concerned for the future of non-whites. Not only that, his loss represented a major turning point: since, blacks have tended to vote Democrat (about 90%)! Golly!
1969AbbeyRoad 2 years ago
Goldwater, from what ive read in my textbook, also wanted to use nuclear weapons on the soviets.
japproductionsthree 2 years ago
he was a war hawk
Gta4lover13 2 years ago
Actually, the ad was placed only once and then pulled. Historians dispute whether the ad had much impact at all, as very few people actually saw it.
JoesephBlack 2 years ago 2
well you can say few people saw it since it as only shown once but remember back then we only had 3 tv channels and if it was shown during the most watched show on any given nite, then over 80% of the tv viewers would have seen it.
MOVIEPREVIEWSGALORE 2 years ago
Very good point....
kelime 2 years ago
look at what the internet has done...
theebookqueen 2 years ago
This is the funniest political ad ever! I love it!
beewise459 3 years ago
Silly castillianwagon actually thinks it was Reagan that won the Cold War. He didn't win it. It was the Soviets that lost it. When everything started to go south, the top people were just climbing over each other to go capitalistic and grab a piece of the pie. Anyway, if Gorbachev hadn't been the guy, it wouldn't have ended anyway. And in the LBJ v Goldwater days, the Soviets were literally 5 minutes from launch.
shadowlord1990 3 years ago
ugh the sound on this just killed my eardrums. don't watch with headphones!
Catapult82 3 years ago
Nonsense political advert,just scare people.I read about this several years ago in high school,this is the first time I saw the commercial though.
nema1218 3 years ago
Actually, during the Cuban missile crisis, Kruschev was getting ready to launch nukes at the US, and only Kennedy's timely call to offer a compromise stopped him. Unfortunately, such a thing really WAS a reality at that time.
shadowlord1990 3 years ago
Can I ask where you get the evidence for that claim? As a student of international relations, I'm interested. (really).
JRBain7 3 years ago 4
There are tons of resources- they even made movies on the Cuban Missile Crisis, it took 13 days to come to a compromise
Solemio29 2 years ago
Thanks. I do know that part; I'm just entirely unconvinced that the USSR had orchestrated a large-scale nuclear assault on the US. So far as I'm aware, it was mostly blunders on part of the USSR that led to it.
JRBain7 2 years ago
Krushchev wanted no war, it was Kremlin hard liners who wanted to preempt the U.S. By compromising with JFK, Krushchev sacrificed his career--afterwards, JFK's friendship was his biggest asset, when JFK was killed it was only a matter of time that Krushchev would be replaced by someone who would stand up to the United States.
KaesoBrutus 2 years ago
BEST COMMERCIAL EVER! I'm so voting for him.
kazumiakakaz 3 years ago
hahaha
likeness6and4age 3 years ago
that is the freakiest commercial ever
RBBFORLIFE 3 years ago
Unfortunately if Goldwater had won and put in a " build up policy to build " down philosophy in the arms race that Reagan did we would have broken the back of the Soviets a good 25 years earlier and we would have avoided Vietnam as a by product !
castillianwagon500 3 years ago
I'm sorry, but this is how you win a campaign. If your going to go negative, go fucking negative. And boy oh boy did he go negative
straightofdahood 3 years ago
Republicans ran things worse than the democrats. the highest concentration of casualties was post-1968.
DemoraPally 3 years ago
Political fear-mongering and mudslinging at it's greatest.
eaglescout610 3 years ago
Eisenhower's, huh? Better check your history. There was
involvement by the US since Truman in Indochina, but how
many US troops were killed between 1949-1962 there? Now
how many with JFK and LBJ? Ever heard of Gen Westmoreland?
krelllabs 3 years ago 4
i think this is not , OMG lets drop bombs and sh!t. i think its saying. "peace can easily be ruined by war, and also not to use nukes" its showing the power of the nuke, and what war does. because back then america was cheering for war, after the earlier ones. so this was describing and comparing 2. or it could be oposite from what i said.. (he could of been for war, not peace... but i doubt)
leumasx7 3 years ago
Talk about an effective ad! This is downright specific and creepy!
jhwink 3 years ago
This may very well be the most effective political ad ever. holy crap..lol.
jmedia420 3 years ago
i love the message of this ad. if you vote republican, not only will your children die, but they wont be able to count either!
kidkong584 3 years ago
Wasn't Johnson the democrat who prolonged our stay in Vietnam? And wasn't it Nixon, a Republican, who called off the war?
Idiot.
amysticalmoose 3 years ago
a republican who cares about war? thats weird
kidkong584 3 years ago
Pardon me, but it was Gerald R. Ford who got us out of Vietnam in April 1975, almost a year after Nixon resigned in disgrace.
OldsVistaCruiser 3 years ago 4
Nixon was a republican *and* a Quaker, a group which is very anti-violence in general. Just putting that out there.
Kdbattista 3 years ago
You mean like the 58000 men killed in Democrat Johnson's Vietnam war? By the way,
Texas liberal Bill Moyers was part of the
campaign to run this ad against Goldwater.
Moyers lied, people died.
krelllabs 3 years ago
that was eisenhower's war
kidkong584 3 years ago
Classic advertisement indeed.
freeblago 3 years ago
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mandabearrrx3 3 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.
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VoteRepublican2012 3 years ago
Only if the Republicans can get their act together and get somebody worthy or worthwhile to run.
Most of all revamp the party and clean house
malthechal 3 years ago 2
you know its funny how republicans got us into all this shit and your trying to defend it. here is a republicans battlecry: WAR!GUNS!OFFSHORE DRILLING!FOX NEW!theres always next election!
kidkong584 3 years ago
oh yeah, cause Lyndon Johnson was such a fucking peacemaker...he was the one who committed the country to the Vietnam War. He seemed just fine with causing a senseless massacre.
satininacoffin10 3 years ago 9
Vote for me or get blown the fuck up!
armistices 3 years ago 8
No the implication was that Goldwater was unreliable in terms of national security when compared against LBJ
Poliscinut51083 3 years ago
lmao
reanimated93 3 years ago 2
I am quite intrigued by Goldwater's policy on education. Nuking of mathematically inept children would surely raise average test scores.
bobbio122 3 years ago 19
hahahahaha
ABSCreations 3 years ago
this scared me the first time i saw it :B
it's pretty cool, though.
Faithfightsfoes 3 years ago
This should be a PSA aimed towards kids, YOU COUNT WRONG-YOU DIE!
imanerd36 3 years ago 12
lol
kenanscott24 3 years ago
hahaha
irishfanND15 3 years ago
lol. this is awesome. crazy LBJ
shadowclq 3 years ago
im so disgusted.. i cant even tell you.
trevorgodchild 3 years ago
This is DAMN creepy & not even from the political standpoint!
nikki32478 3 years ago 2
tony schwartz is a damn genius..
face0226 3 years ago
dude lololol
bottles1998 3 years ago
a mccain liked ad
agentvirginia 3 years ago
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Yea, this is a McCain ad. Idiot.
Dream23fb 3 years ago
retarded guy, this ad was placed by LBJ campaign. i mean that mcbush has copied LBJ strategy to use against obama
agentvirginia 3 years ago
nice video! xD U
marion290 3 years ago
You know who else uses fear and bully tactics to gain support and power, right?
Gangs, terrorists, the mob, etc.
Why do we as a nation fall for this crap all the time?
phillieredphil 3 years ago 4
because the majority of the nation likes to be stupid and kept in the dark?
whats more important than sports, beer, and lotto tickets?
a gateway to darkness, and apathy
The1Real1Thomas 3 years ago
The problem actually goes deeper than that. There was a time when American education sought: 1. To make good people 2. To make good citizens 3. And to make each student find some particular talents to develop to the maximum.
But that was before the government transformed American education into a system that creates the apathetic, lethargic dimwits that you describe.
nosrednugj 3 years ago 4
It's like terrorism, only they're threatening someone else will hurt them if they don't do as they say.
kain1384 3 years ago
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dodgersfan434 3 years ago
Even though LBJ's campaign only aired this once, its effect was huge. He beat Goldwater in a landslide.
bostonpatriots419 3 years ago
One of the greatest political ads ever made. Effective, emotional, and powerful.
JeepRuby101 3 years ago
(sigh).. back when politicians had balls.
cyrusk2 3 years ago
Wow. This is really straight forward.
"Vote for me or your children WILL BLOW UP."
If you just think of it that way it could be kind of comical.
SaturnVII 3 years ago 4
This ad is scary, even for today.
sprialstaircase 3 years ago 4
why did YouTube pull this ad completely?
taqili 3 years ago
My American History teacher showed us this in class, I seriously thought I was going to cry.
Treehugga1227 3 years ago 2
This scares the shit out of me everytime I see it.
chrisfrost103 3 years ago 2
i completely agree even though they were dirty dirty commies it has been awully bad in this world without us having someone to have a cold war with... maybe china?Iran?Pakistan?cuba?heck maybe even russia again who knows!?!?
retroclubofamerica 3 years ago
i feel that the end of the cold war sounded good in the first place but for some reason since then everything has sucked culturally, politically, and in terms of war i think the war on terror would be much different if the soviets were still around
fedreds 3 years ago
obama should start rerunning this ad against mccain (I don't like either candidate, I just think it would be funny)
brnt7342 3 years ago
I and the world,something happened to the l in world so it reads "word" odd.
fluxs2000 3 years ago
I lived all my life knowing I and the Word had less than a hour to live and now you Republicans are wanting War with Russia to win the White House."MAD" rules in any war with Russia but you Republicans want to fry the world over Georgia and other worthless countries around Russia,OK you fools who piss your pants from fear over Terrorist or Iran having one tiny little A-Bomb well Russia has 10-30,000 H-Bombs ready to fire at every American city above 20,000 people.
fluxs2000 3 years ago
How does advocating a war with Russia garner enough votes to be President?
Russia = rational actor. Iran is not a rational actor. Iran is run with radical theological beliefs that treat death as acceptable.
You don't think terrorists threats are credible? Why not seeing as how they actually happen.
titaneagle37 3 years ago
This is the crap smear ad of '64..recall it well.
The left is furious now--scared to death --and knows not where to turn next...
And this Biden choice--BROTHER!--
Talk about old and tired...
Awful..just awful...
km2711 3 years ago
sort of how they showed the september 11 attacks at the gop convention. Fucking Karl Rove.
PoQuail 3 years ago
I agree that Obama should run this ad, but he should modify it and state that Palin is advocating for a war with Russia.
In her Charlie Gibson interview on September 11 she was saying we should go to war with Russia.
TazExprez 3 years ago
Huh, she advocated defending allies. She never said, "we should go to war with Russia." Stop lying.
titaneagle37 3 years ago
It is election times, so it is OK to lie.
MisterQuebec 3 years ago
Fear mongering bullshit, America is the only country to use nuclear weapons on another. Wake up America
lebode 3 years ago
Actually the U.S. used atomic weapons. But even so, using atomic weapons was better than the alternative. It saved more civilian and military lives on both the U.S. and Japanese sides.
I'm not sure what you want us to "wake up" to in regards to nuclear weapons.
titaneagle37 3 years ago
I'm not actually telling people to wake up in regards to nuclear weapons, It's the adds like this that began to instill fear into Americans for political purpose. For a vote. It's just sad to see things like this.
lebode 3 years ago
So you want us to wake up to the fact that ads will use fear tactics? Ok.
I'm glad that you concede to the justifiable use of atomic weapons too. I mean you don't bother to respond, so I'll presume that a lack of response means there is no good response.
titaneagle37 3 years ago
On the topic of "Atomic" weapons... I know you made the point that if we hadn't dropped the two bombs there would have been more casualties, but why hasn't there been another dropped by another country? Why doesn't everyone that has one just drop a bomb on an invading country? That is a question that could be debated, times are different, etc. My initial response was regarding the video, A presidential add telling the public to fear a-bombs, when we're the only country that has ever released one
lebode 3 years ago
I can't give a specific answer to a vague scenario. Do you have an example of where a nuclear power would have been better off with a nuclear strike, instead of what they actually did?
Generally, I would say that nuclear retaliation would be a great deterrent where rational actors are involved.
As far your critique of the as the ad goes: Are you saying we should only fear the nuclear weapons of nations that have used nuclear weapons?
titaneagle37 3 years ago
I also don't like the fact that it was on civilians. I know there were around 40 civilians dead from pearl harbor, but we killed over 200,000 of mostly civilians with the two bombs. If you're going to have a war at least let the people of the military battle it out, win or lose.
lebode 3 years ago
Can you name a U.S. military official in charge of policy that "likes" the fact that war kills civilians. I think almost everyone would say that they don't like civilian death in war. That's no type of unique ownership of that ethic.
titaneagle37 3 years ago
I thought they were warned ahead of time that they were gonna be bombed =[
klsjafksjdfklsdfjkls 3 years ago
How is you Palin McCain statement not fearmongering too?
How does a "highly aggressive statement" automatically mean nuclear war?
Stop the lying and hysteria, please.
titaneagle37 3 years ago
I'm not sure what you mean by this. I don't believe I made a Palin/McCain statement. I don't care for Left or Right.
lebode 3 years ago
Obama needs to buy the rights to this commercial and REPLAY it TOMMOROW.
Pailin and McCain will lead us right into nuclear war.
Pailin just made a highly aggressive statement today.
georgep922 3 years ago 3
Wait a minute -- I keep hearing that Karl Rove invented this kind of political smear.
Was he working for Johnson in '64?
pooterfish 3 years ago
Now THATS spin!
Leftfootbeats 3 years ago
i seen this advertised in my history book today. so I thought youtube might have it. ha ha i was right.
whslover 3 years ago 2
The truth is something that should not be feared
We live in a post 9/11 world get into reality
ask those people jumping out of th world trade center if they were in fear
bradcdm 3 years ago
Do you mean a post "America was attacked instead of attacking others" World?
I mean terrorism did exist before 911 you know, and most of it was covered up becasue it involved Western Powers commiting the terror covertly
setfree71 3 years ago
Prove it! We were killing innocent people on purpose? Because we did not like the fact they were free to worship the way we they wanted like al queada did. You are really anti american to make such a comparison no reasoning with terroist lovers like you
bradcdm 3 years ago
Thanks for uploading this.
I Think it is very ironic that LBJ painted Goldwater as the warmonger when it was LBJ who got us into Vietnam. (what I mean is that he is the one that started to send in actual troops to do fighting, before him, we only had "advisors")
If you remember in 68, Nixon ran on getting us out of the conflict. (but he didn't, just like Obama will not get us out of foreign conflicts either)
PizzaGod 3 years ago
Eisenhower got the US into Vietnam in 1956 when he sent the first batch of "Advisors" to help the French Colonial government and if you think those "advisors" just sat on their hands or gave friendly advice, you would be making a pretty naive assumption
theCrapture 3 years ago
Actually Truman sent aid and a few advisors before Eisenhower sent any to help train the Army.
On September 5th 1956, exactly 52 years ago today, Eisenhower tells a news conference that the French are "involved in a hopelessly losing war in Indochina"
Eisenhower new better than to send troops.
Kennedy sent the first troops in 1961, Pre 1961, there were less than 700 "Advisors"
Kennedy took that to 21,000, then Johnson went into an all out war.
PizzaGod 3 years ago
Plus que ca change, plus que ca meme chose.
philamaena 3 years ago
we either love each oither or die... in vietnam
SoMeGuYoNhErE920 3 years ago
gotta love those sprouting mushrooms. :)
54spiritedwill54 3 years ago
aw whatever happened to the Jfk and Lbj democratic party
jacktimothycoleman 3 years ago
They became neoconservatives.
Char99 3 years ago
this remains the classic example of political propaganda, very well made indeed.
rockstar555y 3 years ago
Apparently you haven't met Karl Rove and the Swift Boat Veterans.
At least LBJ's ad deals with facts. Goldwater was a reactionary and as President could have very well started World War III, not so far fetched when you consider the Cuban Missile crisis only a few years prior.
In the end America was better off, and LBJ's Great Society transformed American for the better.
mikepalomino 3 years ago
Democrats starting negative ads this is proof
bradcdm 3 years ago
Err. Ironically, you just did some fear-mongering and smearing right there. But I'm sure you knew that, right?
bbmcrae 3 years ago
Fear mongering.. Thank God we don't fall for that sort of thing today... oh wait.
mdpk1 3 years ago 2
Ho HO Ho Chi Min - THE VIETCONG ARE GONNA WIN!
rwcscoma 3 years ago
Hey hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today...oops it's 2008.
Hey hey George W Bush...
danecounty 3 years ago 2
lol. PWNAGE
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windom01 3 years ago
I was four years old when this ad was around. But just replace Goldwater with McCain pushing the button. The guy wants the war in Iraq to last for a hundred years...and he's just itching to Bomb,bomb,bomb, BOMB IRAN.
No matter what party people vote for, be careful because nowadays you don't know who to trust.
kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE 3 years ago 2
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