[Vision2020] Kind of says it all.............

[Kenneth Marcy]

On 7/2/2014 1:28 PM, Wayne Price wrote:
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>     Obama rated WORST president since WW2 in embarrassing poll
>     <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2678005/Obama-rated-WORST-president-World-War-II-embarrassing-new-poll.html>
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It is difficult to doubt that this poll embarrasses itself. Whatever may 
be this poll's technical characteristics, the fact of the matter is that 
any poll that indicates any post-World-War-II American president as the 
worst other than Lyndon Baines Johnson, LBJ, is simultaneously 
embarrassing itself and whatever population purports to represent the 
basis for that poll.

LBJ is by definition the worst post-WWII president because the evidence 
is clear that he stole the presidency via a coup d'état by conspiring to 
and thereby delivering a fatal coup de grâce to President John 
Fitzgerald Kennedy 23 November 1963.

Yes, it is true that the emotional whiplash that followed JFK's 
assassination allowed Johnson to encourage Congress to pass very 
important civil rights and anti-poverty legislation during his time in 
office.  Indeed, as I write this message, today is the 50th anniversary 
of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, the fact 
remains that had Kennedy not been assassinated that legislation would 
not have passed regardless of Johnson's prowess as Vice-President to 
encourage particular legislative results.  Johnson was not the major 
catalyst for landmark legislation in 1964 -- grief for John Kennedy was.


Ken

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