Re: A guy with just no class at all.

Ejucaided Redneck wrote:

ing wrote: 

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Historians are gonna have a field day with Thing.

And Thing's Daddy, for that matter. 

Still, I have more respect for the Daddy than the son.


Like, just what _was_ his relationship with Norriega?

There IS that - yeah, but my head keeps going back to the Bush *grand* daddy ... it all started there, I think. Not that I think the Kennedy's were much cleaner ...


Still, Johnson bowed out of a second full term.
Maybe he knew he'd never get re-elected - maybe he
got a conscience in the end.



Y'gotta wonder. . .

There are stories about his taking very personally all those dead kids
in Vietnam. . .

And there are those photos of LBJ at the end of his life: long-haired,
big-eyed, where he looks like nothing so mich as some cannibis-crazed
polisci professor gone bad.

Somebody wrote a bio on LBJ, supposed to be two volumes, the first volume's out, not sure of the second, can't remember if it's out or not - I gotta read them one day soon. Heard it was good. I DO believe he got a conscience - it hit him hard I think. I got nothing to go on, saying that. Just gut. I still remember his speach, saying he wasn't gonna run again. Gotta get those books and read them tho.



Lately I been feeling like I'm witnessing
something really important, history-wise, but I
just don't have enough faith anymore that anything
good is gonna rise out of the ashes. My mood's
matching the cold and cloudy November skies.



In the States we can stop wondering "Could fascism happen here?" and
begin assuring one another "It _did_ happen here."

If not the all-out thing, like Mussolini - something quite close - yeah, I believe it's happening, or close to it. It's damn scarey.
What happened with the Plame thing, that scares me most. Using the power of the Oval Office to hit out at someone who disagreed with what they did and said so in print. What little faith I had in the integrity of the press has just hit the dumper. Call me a naif, but I DID have a little left till all this happened. Not now. Now my faith is in Fitzgerald. I hope he doesn't let me down. I believe Fitz is the real thing.


And nobody much gives a ***.

I think a lot of caring folks do give a ***, maybe they just don't see it happening, in a clear light. But when the act of questioning authority - no matter whether it's a time of war or not, is labelled as "unpatriotic", or worse, "treasonous" .... you gotta wonder at that too.


Somebody told me one time --I think they were trying to be funny-- that
so long as cable TV's affordable, so long as they can make their
mortgage nut, and put enough gas in their car to get to McDonald's,
Americans will never much care about what their government does.

I suspect there's more truth than humor in that.

Yes, perhaps, but you know ER, it's not something unique to the US -- that's the way it's going in my country too. Your country ain't alone.


Read someplace that when thirteen or fourteen million people voted in a
series of primaries, sixty five million voted for "Who Wants to Be a
Star" or something like that. ‘Course, maybe there was more integrity
to the latter, I dunno.

Depends on who was running the voting machines, I guess.

ing

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