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The comparisons are being made between Lyndon Baines Johnson and Obama. Johnson tried to implement the Great Society and continue the Vietnam War at the same time. Johnson's reckless ambition eventually cost him any opportunity for re-election and he decided not to run again.
1 posted on 08/22/2009 7:03:50 AM PDT by usalady
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Wheres Hillary? Doesn’t she see that 0 is deliberately bankrupting this nation she should resign Palin style and denounce this creep.


2 posted on 08/22/2009 7:07:46 AM PDT by omega4179 ( -10 I0=Impeach0)
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And it seems Afghanistan will be O’s viet nam.


4 posted on 08/22/2009 7:12:25 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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Ron Paul warned everyone about this.


7 posted on 08/22/2009 7:14:52 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("It (Gov't) can't make you happier, healthier, wealthier, and wise" - Sarah Palin 07/26)
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He should set a new record... one where someone finally figures out what a fraud he is, grows a pair and does something about it, and impeaches this tard before he passes his first budget.


8 posted on 08/22/2009 7:15:03 AM PDT by Safrguns
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I'm hoping, working for, and praying that he is a failed one-half term president. Who is completely neutered in 2010 and rendered absolutely and completely impotent by an overwhelming majority against him in the house and senate that over turns every policy he has attempted, and then keeps him from implementing any more.


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9 posted on 08/22/2009 7:15:06 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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Even if he is, he can do the dirty deed of “health care reform” as a legacy just as Johnson did with “the great society”. Even though it has not solved poverty, he is glorified for it and it helped keep dems in power for a long time. Even though Johnson has been shown to be a royal jerk in personal and public life, he is an icon for enablers like Doris k Goodwin.


10 posted on 08/22/2009 7:15:47 AM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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I have always said that LBJ’s pursuit of these two basically contradictory goals was a classic example of a schizophrenic Presidency: much like a global acting-out of two contradictory objectives that “needed” each other to attain psychological “balance”. OTOneHand: The Great Society/War on Poverty basically code for ameliorating the African-American Condition, Inner City Despair, etc., and OTOH, at the same time, inviting Blacks to join the military in fighting the Red Menace in Vietnam. Blacks who wound up in Vietnam were WAY out of proportion to their actual numbers in the civilian population: more than 2 to 1. I was there in 1966, I know. LBJ’s equation could be seen as an early expression of the kind of nascent White Guilt that this new President counts on as his cornerstone for success. Inevitably, they both FAIL.


13 posted on 08/22/2009 7:18:42 AM PDT by supremedoctrine (Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn.)
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the debt is expected to spiral to $10 trillion over the next decade

We already have an $11.9 trillion debt because we couldn't afford all the previous liberal programs. President Obama is trying to double down with at least another $10 trillion with the illusion of big returns so nobody will notice we can't really afford liberalism run amock.

15 posted on 08/22/2009 7:19:49 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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Pubbies need to be careful over-hyping that idea [failed one-termer] at this time.

Clinton seemed to be heading for a one-term presidency in his early years. Yet, he managed to pull out a win in ‘96, thanks in part to Perot’s 3rd party, but mostly to the GOP’s stellar nominee.


17 posted on 08/22/2009 7:26:07 AM PDT by TomGuy
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My big fear is that once he sees he’s losing his grip, the gloves will come off and he’ll get violent. The people are already rejecting him and his loony ideas, and all that needs to happen now is for the media to abandon him. But I don’t think that’s likely yet, because they elected him and they’ll stand by him.

Still, a wounded Marxist is a dangerous Marxist, even more so when it’s a wounded Muslim Marxist, so I think we have to be prepared for him to become very dangerous as he realizes that he’s losing support.


22 posted on 08/22/2009 7:31:55 AM PDT by livius
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Ahhhh..., the ole “guns and butter” routine.... :-)


24 posted on 08/22/2009 7:34:51 AM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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Don’t worry. Obama (aka “The One”) will have his “generated international crisis” to save the day. Ala Biden.

I’m just trying to guess what it’s going to be.


25 posted on 08/22/2009 7:35:43 AM PDT by kingpins10
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I suspect this clown is in for a major meltdown. He’s probably been surrounded all his life by people telling him how great and smart he is. Now, for the first time, he’s under real pressure and all the smoke they can blow up his bum isn’t going to make him any less incompetent. You can see his temper there just under the surface.

Remember when, after like two days in office, he and the wife “had to get out of the White House”?


27 posted on 08/22/2009 7:41:07 AM PDT by Darth Reardon
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Lyndon Johnson, a failed President? We’re still living with all the crap he shoved through 45 yrs. ago. How is that failure? Just because it’s destroying the country doesn’t count. Just because the Democrats have not made him a Saint like Roosevelt and Kennedy and re-named every street, P.O., airport, and grade school in the U.S. after him doesn’t count.


34 posted on 08/22/2009 8:57:56 AM PDT by penowa
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“Obama will be a failed, one-time president.”

I certainly hope so.


38 posted on 08/22/2009 10:12:27 PM PDT by jocon307
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