Did anyone notice the similarity to LBJ?

[Vincardog]

A great pol ital ad would be to show LBS speech saying the same shit as * Then cut to * talking the same Bull$hit. Then word for word the same. The more things change the more they stay the same.

[babylonsister]

1. Now if only * would resign. Sigh...

[elperromagico]

3. LBJ didn't actually resign; he just declined to seek another term.

:hi:

[elperromagico]

2. Only one minor difference: LBJ was actually a good president at one time.

Other than that, the resemblance is pretty scary.

[Powderkeg]

4. I don't think LBJ

wanted to be in Vietnam but was unable to shed it. Whereas Bush certainly wanted to engage Iraq militarily.

[kwolf68]

5. Screw LBJ

He didn't do shit to get us out of that war. He was being controlled by the M-I Complex. He even said as much if you read between the lines of his phone calls, etc...

LBJ's compliance to the M-I Complex is why many conspiracy theorists postulate that LBJ was somehow involved in the assasination of JFK. Of course, very little evidence suggest proof of this, but it keeps the tin-foil hat crowd working OT.

[ROC]

6. Look at the social legislation that LBJ pushed through.

It is easy to look at VN from the Monday Morning Quarterback recliner. There is more to history than the phone tapes.

[Leilani]

7. Shrub has always reminded me of LBJ

& maybe thats why I hated him from the beginning.

He lied during his campaign, just like LBJ, he is a dirty campaigner, remember the Daisy commercial, & he is not above stealing elections.

LBJ was a non-intellectual, sly, crafty pol who ran a war from the Oval Office, knew it couldn t be won, yet for political reasons, stayed & oversaw the carnage. He was an insecure bully, who hated Ivy league types because the were smarter than him.

And everytime he opened his mouth, he lied.

And he was a smarmy bastard.

Sound familiar?

[cheshire]

8. Wasn't he a clutz too?

[Leilani]

10. He wasn t a clutz like Frat boy

but he loved to show off, just like the occupant.

Another thing I forgot...he spent money like a drunken sailor, & put the economy in crisis for years to come.

He had to pay for the war, but he spent a fortune on domestic things, & just pretended it was monopoly money.

[LTR]

9. And sometimes I wish we had him back

Nice to have a pit bull Democrat who doesn't take any shit. He was one guy who refused to bend over for the Republicans.

Today's GOP seemed to get a few ideas from LBJ, but LBJ actually had some balls. Granted, McNamara and the other hawks pushed him into Vietnam, but he didn't have someone like Karl Rove propping him up. Bush is a wimp and a PNAC puppet.

And at least LBJ has one of the most progressive agendas of any president with the Great Society. And he eventually admitted that Vietnam was a mistake.

[Leilani]

11. Pushed him into Vietnam?

HE was the Prez...nobody pushed that stubborn bastard into anything.

He terrified his staff & had them cowed.

No excuses for Shrub; I get just as mad when people blame Cheney for the mess we are in.

LBJ was the Prez...the buck stopped with him, same as the occupant.

[Powderkeg]

12. JFK ( and probably RFK)

took us into Vietnam and I don't think LBJ was as committed to being there as them. I agree he did not swim against the tide of Macnamara et al. and the bequeathed war. In retrospect he may have regretted that.