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Originally Posted by baddog
 So, in your mind he knew what was going to happen in Nam before we really got involved.
That guy just never got enough credit. |
I didn't say anything about anything "in my mind". Not sure why you are trying to insult me by criticizing my thought processes. They've served me well and made me very successful in my life so far thank you very much.
I very clearly pointed out he was under INTENSE pressure over the Vietnam War.
He was looking for anything to take the focus off of it.
I'm theorizing that perhaps Civil Rights was one of the ways he tried to shift the focus of the media away from Vietnam.
If so, it didn't work. I assume you know that he declined to run for a second elected term as President and that the Democrat nominee in 1968 (Humphey) was saddled with the Vietnam War as a "Democrat War" (kinda like Republicans and Bush in 2008 and 2012 with the Iraq War)
Nixon won as an anti-war candidate and history was changed (can you say "war on drugs"?)
Anyway, you are TOTALLY missing my point: Idiots on television news calling Obama the "Educator In Chief" on race relations is a joke in my opinion. LBJ (white, redneck, cowboy, from Texas) did more for blacks than Obama has ever, ever done.
That was my point.