We had Roosevelt, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clintoon.
Surely no one could ask for more, unless one would be thinking Alger Hiss could have done us in more quickly.
Posted on 05/02/2006 4:23:36 PM PDT by SJackson
We had Roosevelt, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clintoon.
Surely no one could ask for more, unless one would be thinking Alger Hiss could have done us in more quickly.
The poster child of America's decline into statism. Good riddance.
Only an idiot could have thought Vietnam was about the "real estate".
All that Galbraith did after 1945 was to throw sand in the gears of the entire anticommunist movement. He always believed that American society needed to be nudged toward some form of socialism, and was muted in any criticism of the Soviet Union. During the 1987 stock market crash, Dr. Galbraith noisily exulted that America's socialist moment was at hand.
A typical anti-American Canadian-born intellectual with a powerful contempt for those who disagreed.
He will not be missed.
Democrats still believe his economics.
The left never gave up on Hiss. He even got his law license back in Mass. F------ TRAITOR
LOL.
""Had it not been for the accident of his birth in Iona Station, Ontario, John Kenneth Galbraith, the greatest public intellectual of the second half of the American 20th century, would surely have been considered presidential timber.""
Yeah just like Adali Stevenson....American dont vote for pin heads....they vote for bubbas
This is the real reason why the left hates america so much, why Krugman hates american society and why they love europe.
In Europe politicians are groomed for public service from the time they are in high school. The best and brightest go into public service. Afterall it takes brains to run a socialist society.
In America, people laugh at intellectuals. Intellectuals dont form public policy. They sit in small rooms at universities seething with hate because the american people are too stupid to appreciate all that the elite could be doing for them. They teach classes and theories or write for obscure newspapers like the NYT. But they never get to put their ideas into reality, unlike in europe where the masses worship the intelligensia and end up suffering from when theirsocial and economic theories see the light of day.
Instead americans elect Harry Truman, who didnt even have a college degree, or LBJ who went to west texas teachers college. If they were bad enough, imagine the horror of Roanld Reagan or GW Bush. The irony of GHW Bush is he was exactly what liberals look for in a President. His resume was impecable. ditto Nixon.
After the disaster the DEMS faced in 1994, Clinton brought in james carville who purged the elites from Clinton's administration. Laura Tyson, Ira Magaziner etc.
JFK remains popular, almost godlike to liberals, because his was the only administration where the best and brightest got to test their classroom theories...ie like Vietnam
The perfect liberal icon. Looked like a professor. Master of the put-down. Wrong about every issue of his time.
one moment of honesty in his life; saw him on McNeill-Lehrer as Berlin wall pulled down: "We didn't think freedom would motivate people the way it has."
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Just couldn't get past this horsecrap.
Galbraith was wrong so often about so many things, but he's still an icon of the Harvard - NY Times axis of pretentious pseudo-intellectuals. The prohibition against a foreign-born president has saved us from possible presidential candidacies of Galbraith, Kissinger, and Ah-nold so maybe it is a good thing!!!
Any liberal should know there was no oil there of any consequence.
He should have takern better care of himself.
One of the last veterans of the Roosevelt epic's first term during which he worked with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration Galbraith would go on to advise FDR's National Defense Advisory Committee and then to serve as an administrator of the Office of Price Administration.
Although Herbert Hoover started our slide into socialism with his farm bills, Roosevelt refined and extended them and added others. Galbraith was probably a key strategist of that.
He couldn't carry Milton Friedman's jockstrap.
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