45 years ago it was "Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids have you killed today"

[WonderGrunion]

Now he is recognized for the Great Society and the Civil Rights Act.

45 years from now, President Obama will be recognized as the creator of National Health Care and the father of LGBTQI Rights.

Edited because someone has an issue with approximates.

[pokercat999]

1. You're correct, it's a shame that killing little brown kids is no

big deal in American History.

[WonderGrunion]

3. Only survivors on the losing side care about past wars

One of our first foreign military acts as a nation was against Barbary Pirates. I don't hear much about their plight or an official apology as a nation from the US.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Oh, I don't know. I think the victors in Vietnam still care.

But, I doubt they'll apologize to us.

[WonderGrunion]

10. I know they apologized to McLame

for his treatment as a POW. Does that count?

[hobbit709]

2. 40 years ago Nixon was president.

[WonderGrunion]

4. Edited to make you happy.

Their wasn't enough room in the title line to add "About"

[hobbit709]

6. That's OK. Nobody remembers that more died in Nam under Nixon than LBJ

[WonderGrunion]

7. That's because Nixon "ended the war"

That's one of the reasons he's more liberal than President Obama, ya know? :sarcasm:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Well, Obama's still searching for the light at the end of the tunnel in his "necessary" war.

[Obamanaut]

8. And very few recall the first advisors were sent during theTruman

administration and were there through Eisenhower and Kennedy.

[Gaedel]

17. Not true

US Military Deaths By Year
1956–1964 401
1965 1,863
1966 6,143
1967 11,153
1968 16,592
1969 11,616
1970 6,081
1971 2,357
1972 641
1973 168
1974–1998 1178


1965 to 1968 LBJ
1969 to 1973 Nixon

Add them up.

Statistical information about casualties of the Vietnam War from the National Archives.

[WiffenPoof]

11. I Remember That Chant...

I just aged myself.

_PLA

[rug]

12. I doubt that Vietnam is forgotten. LBJ and Nixon's name remain linked.

And Afghanistan belongs to Obama as much as it does to Bush.

Wishful thinking aside, history won't change that.

On the other hand, history will not record the legislation as the creation of National Health Care, particularly since it was never proposed.

As to being called "the father of LGBTQI Rights", uh, no.

[Edweird]

13. What "National Health Care"? We have the 'individual mandate' to buy insurance.

Insurance is NOT health care.

[Abq_Sarah]

15. But, he'll be remembered fondly

By insurance companies.

[LWolf]

14. The president who championed mandated private, for-profit insurance

is not going to be recognized as the creator of any National Health Care program. The "father" of LGBTQI rights? You're kidding, right?

[Luminous Animal]

16. You know, as someone who has worked diligently for LGBTQI rights, ceding the limelight

to Obama pisses me off. Obama did not give the LGBTQI community rights. The community wrested those rights for themselves through decades of activism.