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DerekG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 02:49 AM
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Was LBJ the last president who was worth a damn?
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Seriously, while Carter and Clinton avoided plumbing the genocidal depths of the peasant-killer extraordinaire (although the latter's complicity in preserving the Iraqi sanctions might refute this), neither offered the American people anything as remotely beneficient and visionary as Johnson's Great Society.

One may be tempted to blame an empowered reactionary movement for Clinton's failure to make a legacy (Johnson, after all, crippled Goldwater and his rightist allies), but that doesn't quite explain Clinton's penchant for triangulation tactics, with help from that depraved vizier of his--Dick Morris. A budget surplus alone won't get you on Mount Rushmore.

I feel so dirty pining for a war criminal (however tragic)...



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