Reply #26: I never said or implied it... [View All]

[Zinfandel]

I wrote..."As far as "The Great Society" Kennedy laid the ground work and LBJ saw the writing on the wall and viewed it as his legacy."

Ike and Kennedy started things rolling on civil rights and of course Johnson continued it and kept things rolling. (What else could he do?) The "New Deal" created by FDR is what really started everything and helped the poor and the working class and the unemployed and seniors for ALL people, no matter what their color...that was the base of it then, and when LBJ took office and where we are still at today--- And what Bush & the fucking republicans desperately want to tear apart and completely blow into a million pieces. Forever!!! By making "The New Deal" non workable by under funding it & using the money paid into it by the people, for their own greed and selfish gains and using the cost of the their bullshit war on "terrorism" as the excuse there's no money to fund any of the programs---but there's plenty of money for Texas based Halliburton and the oil companies with their record profits and gigantic tax cuts and hundreds of billions of dollars for the huge military machine... as more young people die each day for these rich to get richer!

"Much has been written about (LBJ) and the 1948 notorious "Box 13" scandal because, throughout Johnson's long career the stolen election was always deemed an important measure of the man. The theft would continue to haunt Johnson until he was reelected to the Senate in 1954 After the election he was solidly entrenched in Texas and he took a certain pride in ignoring the theft and in subtly bragging about how he got away with it." Words from his own lawyer of over twenty years.