Posted on 10/02/2021 10:59:48 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
It’s an oft-told tale that, given Friday’s developments in Washington, bears repeating.
As Joe Califano describes it in “Triumph and Tragedy,” his revealing memoir of his time in Lyndon Johnson’s White House, the president summoned civil rights leaders during racial unrest in the explosive summer of 1967.
Detroit and Newark were burning and Democrats were sharply divided over several issues, including how to respond to the rioters. LBJ was using his famous arm-twisting methods with NAACP leader Roy Wilkins and Urban League executive director Whitney Young, but without much success.
Frustrated, he launched an attack on the left-wing of his party, declaring, “A liberal is intolerant of other views. He wants to control your thoughts and actions.”
As Califano writes, Johnson then moved closer to his guests to deliver the final punch: “You know the difference between cannibals and liberals? Cannibals eat only their enemies.”
Joe Biden knows the feeling. More than five decades later, he, too, is being eaten alive by the Dems’ left, which is now called progressive instead of liberal.
No matter the name, the appetite is the same.
But that’s where the similarities end. LBJ was a fighter and brilliant tactician, but Biden is neither. Johnson honed his leadership instincts in the Senate, but Biden spent nearly 40 years there and learned only how to talk the talk.
The contrast was on display Friday as Biden surrendered to his party’s most radical element without a fight. His visit to Capitol Hill was billed as a bid to forge a solution to the Dems’ split, but instead Biden blinked and waved a white flag.
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I suppose we should be happy Joe is a fading idiot. Imagine how much evil he could get done if he knew what he was doing
Fixing the headline: “Xi holidays in Taiwan as American empire finally caves under loony left”
Regards,
Sounds like Goodwin is upset Biden isn’t winning in his battle to destroy the country
Or is winning more slowly than is desired.
Yes. What’s Goodwin complaining about? Biden is supposed to tell AOC’s progressive squad to sit down, shut up and get in line or else? Sure, Biden is worthless and weak, but criticizing him for not bringing the left to heal seems unreasonable to me. Besides I think AOC’s real goal is to neuter Pelosi which she succeeded doing.
bkmk
That’s exactly what I was thinking!!!!!
I can’t believe the article gets better...so, I am not going to read it.
I thought Goodwin was one of the White Hats.
GEEEz, this is so disappointing.
I just have ONE auestion.
Joe is so PAST IT ... how will we know when he has a stroke?
Xi is destroying China to create Chinese socialism
Biden is allowing America to be destroyed to firmly establish American socialism.
Xi = Biden
” Weak Joe Biden caves to loony left”
He’s always been a loony leftist.
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