Sen. Hillary Clinton: LBJ vs MLK

Yeah! I'm a Dem....now look at the Fing mess in Washington...We voted a loser idiot! The real candidate with experience Hillary. The Dem primaries were stolen by Barry Soetoro AKA Obama..yeah, I laugh at the fools who voted for that phony! We are losing jobs-health care is not a reform, it is to make more money for the crooks...WHAT A MISTAKE. Oh well we did electe our 1st Blk prez?? Or did we???

Hillary is a demagogue, and a liar.

All Civil Rights bills were passed by Congress, not by any Presidents. They were always passed by Republicans. The 1964 bill was passed by 82% Republicans and only 60% of democrats in the Senate. All Civil Rights bills including the 1964 bill from Kennedy were written by Republicans. The 1964 bill was a watered down copy from the 1875 bill passed by Republicans that Democrats overturned after 1888.
The democratic party is the party of slavery, segregation and White Supremacy. Totalitarians.

MLK may have created the bandwagon. LBJ hitched the horses to the wagon. JFK was hesitant to push the legislation. JFK & MLK had no sway over the dominant southern senators who ruled the committees via the seniority system. They, except Ralph Yarborough (D-Texas), hated Kennedy, esp. RFK & MLK. They didn't need MLK/JFK to stay in power. JFK=weak senator with no respect among southern senators. Politics works for those who know how to use it.. LBJ=master legislator. JFK was not!

Being educated in your field doesn't mean you know what went on in the JFK-LBJ administration or the LBJ White House. I was there. I worked there. Did you?" Opinions based on supposition rather than personal involvement & first hand knowledge are just so much BS. Had it not been for LBJ, civil rights laws would have taken years to happen. He forced the issue just as he did the first civil rights bill--weak but the best for the time--as Senate Majority Leader. Go back and re-read history.

he had to.there was social disobedience on the streets,but kennedy got the ball rolling

The 1957 Civil Rights Act 1) allowed the justice department to investigate claims of civil rights violations, 2) allowed charges to be brought against those suspected of violating civil rights, and 3) (the reason this Act was basically useless) it allowed for state courts (and state court selected juries) to prosecute these cases. This Act did propel political incrementalism and LBJ played a MAJOR role in its passage. Concerning MLK, MLK and LBJ were working differnt sides of the same street.

Lyndon Johnson's legacy is very well protected and she is doing fine job. Of course we will never know that LBJ was behind Dallas as long as Hillary lives on :)

Do you people now Get your answer why the JFK casa still Close..or should we spell it out for you..USE YOUR HEAD !!!

loudgirl, I hope you will go to youtube & the LBJ civil rights discussion & read some history of the legislation in my expose' of Aliolliewoodson's crap. It will give you some flavor and reality as to how civil rights legislation came to pass. The numbers may be meaningful to you as evidence of what LBJ faced in accomplishing CR legislation. Let me assure you that had SML/POTUS LBJ no passion for the '57, '60, '64, etc., CR bills, none would have ever left committee. He owed MLK nothing.