Chris Matthews on GOP politics and the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Let me finish fag.
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Andrew Sullivan is an idiot
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@iamavet More so Johnson..... committing troops to an endless stalemate must be a Texas thing.
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JFK and Johnson were the ones who got 55k Americans killed in Vietnam.
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@Saebeck32 I think nobody liked him on that panel that night
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Chris matthews for president.
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JFK would be a moderate republican today, but he did begin to turn against a lot of the forces that controlled him in 1963 which is what got him killed.
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JFK was a dove? Let's see...Bay of Pigs Invasion, 16000 troops to Vietnam, military blockade of Cuba, containment of communism...hardly anything a true "Dove" would've done. I don't know why Matthews loves Jack Kennedy so much, he was an internationalist on foreign policy, and on economics: cut taxes, reduced the deficit, and believed in a market economy. A Republican by modern context, oh yeah, he also voted against the 1957 civil rights act...
I love how we can't even agree on something that happened 50 years ago. Chris Matthews is right, JFK was the voice of reason. Andrew Sullivan is kind of a dick.
Saebeck32 3 months ago 10
@iamavet JFK didn't want a war there. He wanted to withdraw them. Johnson is the one who wanted it badly. Besides, I didn't see Nixon act so fast on withdrawing them like he said he wanted to.
ruffzspree 3 months ago 4