Nickolai

We do not-- we marry blacks remember ? or haven't you noticed ? Haven't you noticed the Republican is no longer the party of Lincoln but the party of Jefferson Davis protective of statues of Confederate hero's Black folk aren't going to vote for that party and for good reason

Loki Loc: Georgia

The only confused factoids in this post seem to be yours.

Nickolai

My wife admires Obama for his grace and his leadership, his wonderful ability to deliver a good speech as well as a joke. C-span rates him 12th best president and his current approval rating is 60 % compared to Schtrumpinski's at 36-37 %

Big Bass

Oh, I forgot your "token blackisms." You have already forgotten LBJ's famous statement. How convenient!

Big Bass

Let's see those results AFTER Trump has served his 8 years.

kankune Loc: Iowa

Oh..Nikki. I'm part of that 80,000..Better start giving us a little more credit. We're a lot smarter then that!!

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Good chance that LBJ never said that. But he said other things, every bit as racist.. So yes, he was and AH racists.. Like todays right wing..

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LBJ’s comment about black people voting Democrat was supposedly uttered to two unnamed governors traveling with the president on Air Force One, but we only have one source — MacMillan, who claimed he overheard the exchange — and no corroboration from anyone else. And then there’s MacMillan’s editorializing: “It was strictly a political ploy for the Democratic party. He was phony from the word go.” And: “This was the attitude of these people who were championing civil rights.”

It’s not just that MacMillan gives the appearance of being a biased witness, but also that his cynical portrait is at odds with historical evidence showing that by the time Johnson took office after JFK’s assassination, he was fully committed to Kennedy’s civil rights legislation. Some of this evidence can be found in LBJ’s oval office recordings, in which he can be heard fighting for its passage. Eric Foner writes in the New York Times Book Review:

Nickolai

Your famous LBJ quote is a made up right winger myth. The actual quote was to press agent Bill Moyers who said. When he signed the act he was euphoric, but late that very night I found him in a melancholy mood as he lay in bed reading the bulldog edition of the Washington Post with headlines celebrating the day. I asked him what was troubling him. "I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come," he said.

Big Bass

Famous movie words for you to remember: "You can't handle the truth!"

missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

Oh boy . another spelling bee Nazi . Perfect !!

missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

What a putz . Shut up little fella .

missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

Oh enlighten us oh wise one . Spew your enlightenment among us peasants you dipshit !!!

Nickolai

I figured you might be one of those. Uneducated people make up a large chunk of Schtrunpinski's base that means former union members in the rust belt who feel left behind in this globalized economy. I am a former union member my self. My friends were all former union members and working class I guess it is just my innate curiosity and tendency to be analytical that made me resistant to the con or maybe my cynicism but I have generally been able to spot a conn job. While Der Schtrumpinski said things my fellow former union members liked to hear It was obvious to me there was no way he could do all that stuff it was just soaring rhetoric --a con job and his cabinet picks confirmed my skepticism that the great pretender doesn't do anything unless there is big money in it for himself. The guy is not going to give up his cushy like living in his gold palace to go slumming in the White house and putting up with all the headaches with out the promise of a big payday. Wilber Ross worth 2.5 billion and still invested in a Russian company closely associated with the Putin family ??? why did he want to be SEC of Commerce the Department that has the responsibility to enforce the economic sanctions on Russia ???? It stinks to high heaven.

missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

Nato is undermining itself by relying to much on us .

kankune Loc: Iowa

Ah....yes the working class. The one thing we"working class" people have IS CLASS! Unlike yourself. Please take that from an "uneducated" chemical engineer.