Posted on 09/10/2009 2:23:24 PM PDT by pissant
In 1967, the play “MacBird!” opened in New York. It was (very) loosely based on Macbeth and, like it, told the story of an assassination and a palace coup, only in this case Lady Macbeth and her husband were not mythical Scots, but the first family of the United States. “MacBird!” accused Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson of being responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Naturally, given the times, it was a hit.
After the boorishness on display in the House chamber Wednesday night, it is useful to recall an uglier political era than the present one for some perspective, and it also useful to recall it for similarities. At the moment, nothing Barack Obama is going through compares in the least to the treatment Johnson got from his political enemies -- on the left, not the right -- but the reason is the same. Johnson was considered an illegitimate president. So is Obama.
Johnson’s supposed and keenly felt illegitimacy was a consequence of how he came into office -- as Kennedy’s last-minute vice presidential choice and, upon his death, his successor. That Johnson was widely -- and wrongly -- perceived as a conservative southerner only deepened the animosity toward him. He was seen as both politically and culturally the anti-Kennedy, president by virtue of some sort of coup.
Obama is president in the standard way. But his illegitimacy continues to be questioned by the “birthers,” who insist he is not a native-born American, who demand to see the president’s birth certificate, and then, when they see it, insist it cannot be genuine.
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“After the boorishness on display in the House chamber Wednesday night, it is useful to recall an uglier political era than the present one for some perspective, and it also useful to recall it for similarities.”
We’re comparing a partisan moment of passion to the calculated savagery of the left? Puhleeeeeze.
Oh, they saw the birth certificate?? I must have missed that part.
I’m still waiting for Cohen’s article about the widespread yet almost entirely undiscussed hostility of a certain unnamed group toward white Christians and the descendants thereof.
After the boorishness on display in the House chamber Wednesday night, it is useful to recall an uglier political era than the present one for some perspective
You mean 1776 through 1876?
A little light history reqding will show that the politicians of the timeoften threatened one another often called each other derogatory names of the time andon occasion gotinto good old fashioned fist fights.
Our founders weremen that spoke the truth.Ifyou were a liar they did not hesitate to name you so.
IfObama is a liar and you know he is then being called on it is only the truth. We should not be afraid of the truth.
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Barack Hussein Obama has banned the National Day of Prayer from the White House, now get a load of THIS!!
ISLAM ON CAPITOL HILL 2009 - islamoncapitolhill.com
Alarming! Infuriating!!
Does THIS leave any doubt as to what we have sitting in the White House?
Be sure to read every page!
Every page ends with ‘OUR TIME HAS COME’!!
http://islamoncapitolhill.com/Home_Page.html
The charge of liar is only insulting if it’s true. When the left accused bush of lying about WMD, it was not insulting. I agree that it is insulting in zero’s case, as it was in Clinton’s.
Hey Cohen....I am a LIEIST!! I HATE LIARS, and Bammy is one of the BIGGEST! Hillary and Bill are in AWE of his lies.
Calling your opponents racist when your side is in trouble is as good as crowning yourself with a dunce cap.
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