Lyndon Baines Johnson

[zobielamouche1]

as important as the vietnam war, the military coup in brazil and the ensuing dictatorship is johnson's work...

[andrelebaron]

the guy who really mastered the art of stealing from the future to buy votes today. You can hang big wasteful government, unfunded social security and medicare, most of your national debt with all the resultant consequences on income and wealth distribution on this clown.

[Vincenzo916]

mastermind of JFK assassination

[Willredd94]

I respect every president, but I hate LBJ. What a crook and hypocrite!

[guyNbluejeans]

For some reason the wonderful and terrific state of Texas gives us the worst presidents.

[guyNbluejeans]

One of the absolute worst presidents we've ever had. He kept us in Vietnam because, by his own admission, he was afraid to go against what his Harvard-grad advisors told him to do (because he attended a hick college).

Also, it was Johnson that gave us the nightmare government program called The Great Society. The fool believed that it was somehow a wise thing to get people to use others to get a free ride through life! U.S. tax-payers have ever since suffered greatly due to this fool jackass!!

[circusmaximus10]

This ass was a philanering jerk that gave away billions to deadbeats

[WHP1959]

A scheming, conniving, doubledealing, master politician, who would stop at nothing to win, who ushered in transformational legislation, but who took the course in Vietnam which cost our nation much blood and treasure, for ultimately, nothing.

[circusmaximus10]

@WHP1959 He died too late

[spasski1000]

God he was a lousy public speaker.

[045781]

"After tomorrow those goddam Kenndey's will never embarass me again, that's no threat , that's a promise"

Johnson said that one day before JFk was slaughtered.

[switchhitter07]

I wonder what Truman thought when/if he heard Johnson make this speech.

[MeritisDE]

Vietnam was horrible.

But, yes Barry Goldwater could have led

to violent chaos in the world if he had it his way,

that is to use the nuclear bomb.

[BeAGentlaman]

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[045781]

Johnson civil rights bill and school bills are overshadowed by his involvement in the JFK assassnation plot.

Johnson was a animal as Bobby Kennedy called him.

[steveforsane]

Sorry, Charlie...get your facts stright!! There may very well have been a plot to kill Kennedy! But it was bought on by Kennedy behavior. Kennedy was only interested in reelection, womanizing, drug usage!  Hey you believe Johnson was involved..well, the Kennedys were involvede in killing foriegn leaders, Trujillo, Congloese president, Diem, they were after Castro.. Than there are the stories regarding their killing of Mariylin Monroe..

[045781]

Already a proven fact Johnson was one of the plotters in JFK assassination.

His hired assassin Mac Wallace finger was found inside TSBD.

Johnson was the devil on earth when he was alive.

Kennedys were altar boys compared to evilness of Johnson.

[045781]

Proven fact Johnson was behind the plot to kill JFK.

Johnson assassin's finger print was found inside TSBD it a 100% match.

Johnson admitted to the killing of Diem, it is on Utube.

[150133]

Burn In Hell You GodDamn Devil. You will feel the Sorrow of each individual you caused strife to, ten fold.....

[Cunard51]

The Civil Rights Act of 64, Voting Rights Act of 65, Housing Rights Act of 68, Elementary and Secondary School Act, Medicare and Medicard, Food Stamps, Urban Mass Transit Act, HUD. Heat Start! He is the greatest president in US History and surpassed only by the great FDR. If it wasn't for this man we wouldn't have had our first black president. So I say thank you LBJ, because you didn't have to!

[greeniem]

goddamn right!

[mumbleora]

You are exactly right! LBJ was the greastest civil rights president,(and that is for all americans) that we have have. We enjoy all od f these programs you mentioned and more because of him and the help of Adam Clayton Powell.

[Keri1131982]

I Don't Want To Sound Mean But It Is Called Head Start And Not Heat Start, I Have A Cousin Who Was Born During

President Lyndon B. Johnson's Administration.Keri Nowling,Formerly Of Austin, Texas, Now Residing In Seymour, Indiana.

[huckstered]

I believe you to be wrong, freind. LBJ surpassed FDR. Lincoln did too.

[Nationsnotregimes]

@huckstered The three worst criminals in US history IMO!

[huckstered]

@Nationsnotregimes Right , and I would bet you believe you are just the one to say so. As if I should belive it is so along with you. Yes everyone is wrong and you are right , so now I believe it too.

[billyguns2]

@Cunard51 There have been fewer more tragi and disastrouc pesidencie than Lyndon B. Johnson's: The slaughter of millions of innocents with the unnecessary VietNam War and C.I.A. murderous interventions, the near financial and moral bankrupting of the nation by idiotic welfare programs that Bill Clinton finally had to rescind, programs that rewarded laziness and took away any incentive for people to strive and be great, as well as devious activities sanctioned by this war criminal.

[Stringfellow74]

Another thought that really amuses me has to do with Sarah Palin. If L.B.J. had been our President for these past 8 years while Palin was Governor I have no doubt that L.B.J. would have set her head straight on many things with his stare ability and armtwisting ability. He would have really made big time jackasses out of both her and McCain in this election if he was the one running against them. LMAO!!

[Stringfellow74]

After having Bush for these past 8 years in office along with two wars, he's made L.B.J. look like a Saint and Vietnam look like an insignificant war that took place in American History and I mean no disrespect at all for any of the Vietnam Veterans. I'm just saying that comparing Bush to L.B.J. I would much rather have been stuck with L.B.J. as President for these past 8 years because Bush is the most villainous President in history that we've ever had in my opinion.

[MIKESOWELL]

Lyndon Johnson(D) 43,126,506 Popular Votes 61.1% 486 Electoral Votes 44 states, DC won Barry Goldwater(R) 27,176,779 Popular Votes 38.5% 52 Electoral Votes 6 states won- Record Popular Majority that still stands today

[MIKESOWELL]

Lyndon Johnson(D) 43,126,506 Popular Votes 61.1% 486 Electoral Votes 44 states, DC won Barry Goldwater(R) 27,176,779 Popular Votes 38.5% 52 Electoral Votes 6 states won- Record Popular Majority that still stands today

[Whoo69]

What a hypocrite. Not long after he defeated Goldwater, it would HE who got us in an unnecessary quagmire of a war in Southeast Asia. And he's bitching about Goldwater possibly using atom bombs?? What a joke LBJ was. There's no way Goldwater would've used the bomb! Sure, he may have sounded hawkish and dangerous sometimes, but what's more dangerous than killing millions of innocent Vietnamese and drafting our men and women so 58,000 get an early grave in Vietnam??

[scarynight63]

hes from texas and we dont take shit like obama ok

[esb84]

But you take shit like Bush? The son of an eastern establishment carpetbagger, that came in and raped your state!? Damn, all anybody has to do to be loved there is wear a cowboy hat and work for the oil interests. And btw, LBJ would've voted for Obama and every other democrat in a hearbeat.

[qv76]

raped your state?

[esb84]

Yeah the Bushes are a blue-blooded aristocrat family that came to Texas from Connecticut and made millions of oil and gas. Therefore they are carpetbaggers that "raped" Texas of its resources while personally profitting.

[sondano]

Ok but why was he screaming?

[19770326]

underrated president. vietnam fucked him up.

[soapbox5]

This speech was in direct response to Republican nominee Barry Goldwater saying he would 'defoliate the Vietnam jungle with nuclear weapons'.

LBJ shuddered from the hideous thought of that!;& used napalm & agent orange instead.

[oldhacks]

Johnson did some great things for civil rights struggle though. knocked a few republican heads around. plus it was the CONGRESS as always that was pushing that war on Americans/vietnamese

[Whoo69]

Congress? Lol! Are you messed up in the head? Who was it that pushed for the Tonkin Gulf Resolution right after the lie about the USS Maddox getting sunk?? JOHNSON! And like Iraq, Congress just went along with his bullshit and got us in an unnecessary war against an "enemy" that was never a threat and never attacked us, esp. not the mainland. If the Maddox was sunk, he should've used naval forces to take out the PT, NOT the entire fucking military.

[oldhacks]

the president is only as powerful as we allow him to be.

[esb84]

Johnson wasn't at sea and didn't witness the "attack". All his information came through the Naval Intelligence, including high-ranking admirals. He admitted that he didn't know much about military policy or foreign affairs, so consequently he was manipulated by McNamara and the joint chiefs. It wasn't til the end of his presidency that he realized what a catastrophic mistake he had made, and that he had been lied to the whole time.

[stevenson52]

Johnson had a great chance after the election and considering his mandate, to end the war. Imagine a Johnson administration without Vietnam?

[dave98503]

the mere fact that anytime anyone mentions Lyndon Johnson and you need to think about the failed policy of Vietnam and "the need to bring it up", among the countless deaths on both sides, points out to the fact that his administration was a complete failure. today...Americans are doing business with Vietnam and the Vietnameses people only are interested in money. Such a waste of time and money that could have been better spent on education, healthcare, and whatever else.

[BCD6969]

he was soooooo sexy!

[glory789]

LBJ?

[kevallen00]

Thats a total myth and right wing lie. After nearly 50 years of accusations, no one has been able to pin anything on LBJ. Not one piece of evidence has been found connecting LBJ to the JFk accusation, and if there was one it would be on the front page of every paper.

[Lordpet8]

He's basically saying that he will never use nuclear weapons on Vietnam( which I totally agree on)

His opponent Barry Goldwater had come off saying he would use whatever it takes to win the war(including Nukes) this rash comment along with his stance against civil rights cost him dearly in his landslide defeat!

[MIKESOWELL]

johnson won a record 61.1% of the vote in 1964

[IBMeddling]

I think LBJ was a great president (exept the Veitnam thing) I liked how he would fight for civil rights!

[than217]

Yeah it was just that horrendous "Vietnam thing" that made him a horrible President. I agree.

[BooBooLane]

the LBJ Neocons of the day merely murdered 59,000 American GI's, wounded 400,000 and caused many suicides. All this happened after

they promised not to get involved, that Goldwater would be "the one."

[jd24717]

Anyone you don't like is a neocon.

Neocons didn't even exist back then. Shut up.

[BooBooLane]

C'mon, jd-4, lighten up, have an idea, mang.

[jd24717]

I have ideas. One of them is that you don't know what a neocon is.

<3

[jd24717]

I have ideas. One of them is that you don't know what a neocon is.

<3

[BooBooLane]

LBJ was a serial killer and mass murderer; read "The Texas Connection" by Craig Zirbel and any objective account of the Vietnam War.

[BooBooLane]

jd, call them what you will, but they killed a lot of people. Let's see scum plus cons = scons or easier, scones.

[jd24717]

Well, Mr. Lane, scones are delicious.

[chukmaty]

Civil rights was the only thing that was good about him... and I sincerely think that was the doing of JFK and Ike before him... He was a terrible President and we pay the price for his liberalism today.

[BooBooLane]

what was liberal about a pure psychopath?

[Lordpet8]

what was liberal about him you ask?

Well Civil Rights, Medicare, Medicaid for starters

You seem to forget that he regretted the war in the end of his presidency and actually tried to make peace. He even took himself out for reelection

[BooBooLane]

No, the Unseen Hand gave LBJ lots of freedom

but the Torturing Texan became an American Hitler and was forced to get out of the way.

[angryman9]

bollocks.

[Whoo69]

If he really wanted to make peace, why didn't he just withdraw the troops and leave Vietnam the fuck alone??

[oldhacks]

because the military industrial complex is Profitable. and cuz the military industrial complex owns congress.

[Suprkit]

President Johnson is a lot better than Bush 41 and 43.

[3theThird]

Gee... wasn't he set to go to prison in '64? How the heck did he get those charges to disappear like that?

[IBMeddling]

LBJ set to go to prison? I never heard that. Can you give some details?

[mumbleora]

A3theThird "another young fool who has no respect or knowledge

for history" yawnnn . LMAO

[Suprkit]

both of you are really stupid.

[libertyeconomics]

This guy's mannerisms were a lot like Hitler's.