There were two stories about the crook named Lyndon Johnson that the press never covered but I always found somewhat “curious”. First, just how did he become a multimillionaire on a maximum Senate yearly salary of $ 35,000? Second, historian Robert Caro related the news of Lyndon’s first stolen Senate election where he narrowly “defeated” Governor Coke Stevenson in the primary; Stevenson was up 74 votes or so and the county clerk “found” a ballot box with 83 paper ballots that had been uncounted and gee whiz, all 83 were marked for Lyndon Johnson. “Landslide Lyndon” the politicos called him after that; “Crooked as a Texas rattler” was my name for LBJ.
Yep.
Caro’s biography was magnificent, wasn’t it?
Johnson even reveled in, and laughed at “Landslide Lyndon”.
I expect any POTUS to be a dirty fightin’, lying, nasty, backstabbing son of a bitch, at least when they need to be. When your ‘peers’ are the thugs who head most of the nations of the world (the occasional exception of those like Dame Thatcher), and in the case of Putin very bright and focused thugs, then it is no place for nice guys.
The Romans didn’t really care if Caesar was less ‘legitimate’ than Pompey, the fact is Caesar *won*, Pompey lost. Regardless of WNERE Obama was born the fact is McCain got outspent, out stolen, out lied and outfought. I don’t expect ‘morality’ from my elected officials any more than I expect daintiness from a linebacker or gentleness and sportsmanship from a SEAL on a mission. I just wish we could find a conservative who could fight to win (cough, Palin, cough) and worry what anyone thought *after* the concession speech of the opponent :-) It’s too late to bitch about a thrown elbow after the winner of the final four is announced, it’s too late to speculate about the existence, or lack thereof, of a birth certificate after the Electoral College signs off. I mean even Republicans thing Boner is a crybaby, Mitt looks like he came from, and belongs on an episode of ‘Sex and the City’......