On Aug 26, 8:43*am, George > wrote:
> cybercat wrote:
> > "Leonard Blaisdell" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> In article >,
> >> "Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:
>
> >>> Like the guy or not, he has an impressive record.
> >> I'm a Coolidge Republican, but I never wished him dead. He's the loss of
> >> a great counterpoint that appears to have the upper hand for the time
> >> being. He had to smile about that before he passed.
>
> > I doubt it. So much pervasive harm has been done by the past two Republican
> > administrations that he knew, as everyone with any sense knows, that
> > generations of Americans will be paying for it while jackasses blame the
> > Democrats for not fixing it faster.
>
> How long will you be singing the "Bush did it song"? Since the Kennedy
> name is in play you do know for example that it was Kennedy's brother
> who got us into the Vietnam War with a planned no win position where the
> only outcome was lots of military suppliers made lots of money? Nothing
> new began or ended with Bush

Kennedy and Johnson did Viet Nam because if they hadn't, the GOP would
have branded them as sympathetic with Communism. Period.
Do you think that the Great Society programs could have gotten through
Congress if Johnson had looked soft on Communism? Then Bobby k. was
killed and Nixon won in 1968, inheriting an unwinnable war, but still
continuing to send thousands of stupid kids over there to die for
freakin' nothing.

--Bryan