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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/2/2014 1:28 PM, Wayne Price wrote:<br>
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179); ">Obama rated WORST president since WW2 in
embarrassing poll</a></h2>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Ken<br>
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