Lyndon Johnson

It's 1968 Revisited, And It's Not The Liberals' Year

Tony Sachs | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Battleground Poll, Presidential Elections, Pat Buchanan, Triangulation, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, New Deal, George W. Bush, Conservatism, Progressive Movement, Franklin Roosevelt, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Ross Perot, Conservatives, Richard Nixon, John Kerry, Liberalism, Great Society, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Lyndon Johnson, Politics News
Tony Sachs

To elect a far-left liberal in 2008 would be like Reagan getting elected in 1968, or FDR in 1924. The country simply isn't ready yet. The liberals' time will come again -- just not this year.

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By Any Means Necessary

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, White House, Al Gore, 3 a.M., Swiftboating, Chicago, November, John Corzine, Contributors, Bush, Willie Horton, 2008, Richard Nixon, Reverend Wright, Pat Buchanan, Joseph Welch, Florida, John McCain, Karl Rove, Joe Mccarthy, Michael Bloomberg, Texas, 2000, Presidency, Machiavelli, Boss Tweed, Decency, Lee Atwater, Ross Perot, Campaign Funds, Skullduggery, Moralist, Realpolitik, $270 Million, Lyndon Johnson, Steve Forbes, Bring Us Together," Howard Beale, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, "Landslide Lyndon, Hypocrite, Politics News
Jonathan Leigh Solomon

Barack Obama has gone back on his word, Barack Obama is a hypocrite ... I couldn't be happier. Truth is, if what's necessary to win in November is some outright cheating, I'd be all for that, too.

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The Big Bang of Attack Ads

Steve Cone | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Negative Ad, Television, Lbj, Negative Attacks, Political Ads, Lyndon Johnson, Daisy, Barry Goldwater, Politics News
Steve Cone

In memory of its creator, I think it is high time we understand that the 1964 Daisy ad was not about being negative but rather truthful.

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How Tim Russert Got His Start

Martin Nolan | Posted 06.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Josh Brolin, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Hugh Carey, NBC News, Tim Russert, Mario Cuomo, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Woodrow Wilson, Chris Matthews, Patrick Buchanan, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Hubert Humphrey, Dick Cheney, Buffalo, Maureen Orth, Boston College, The West Wing, Lawrence O'Donnell, George Stephanopoulos, William S. WhiteWilliam Safire, Adali Stevens Joseph Kraft, David Brinley, Walter Lippmann, Jimmy Carter, Al Smith, Lyndon Johnson, Larry Grossman, Clayton Fritchey, David Burke, Media News
Martin Nolan

For more than 30 years, my friendship with Tim was rooted in a shared Irish heritage and similar education, with minimal emphasis on self-expression and more on what Tom Brokaw calls "accountability."

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The Greatest President We Never Had

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Pope John XXIII, John Kennedy, George Wallace, Coretta King, Cambodia, Chile, Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Che Guevara, Barack Obama, Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Kennedy, Rfk Jr, Rfk, The Sixties, Rfk Assassination, Politics News
Norman MacAfee

Robert Kennedy believed that politics was an honorable profession, and that government could be used for good. His murder sent a message of hopelessness, that nothing was possible anymore.

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Barack Obama: Recycling Cans And Making Change

Tony Sachs | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

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Tony Sachs

I love Barack Obama. He inspires a nation. He's our generation's JFK. Our LBJ. Our HSBC. Because we can bank on him doing the right thing for this country.

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Friday Talking Points [34] -- General Election Preview

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

As the primary election season sinks slowly in the West (South Dakota and Montana, to be exact), we turn our eyes (finally!) to the general election c...

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George W. Bush and "Appeasement"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Benito Mussolini, John McCain, Lyndon Johnson, Adolf Hitler, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Obama's call for negotiations with Iran has been welcomed by governments throughout the world. How that stance constitutes "Appeasement" of any nation or any leader is anybody's guess.

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Helen Gahagan Douglas - A Woman for All Seasons

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.12.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Christine Lahti, Andrew Bergman, Richard Nixon, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Lyndon Johnson, John Nichols, The Nation Magazine, Alger Hiss, Melvyn Douglas, The Hollywood Ten, Entertainment News
Marcia G. Yerman

This play gives a portrait a woman's evolution from a privileged Republican to Broadway star to incorruptible Congresswoman, who ran against Richard Nixon.

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Hoosier Showdown 1968 and 2008

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics

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Martin Nolan

The Hoosier state, noted for static, culturally conservative politics, was an odd place for the liberal McCarthy-Kennedy showdown. Why Barack Obama designated it as must-win turf is puzzling.

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I Feel Your Pain: McCain's Fatuous but Appealing Tour of Coal Country

Harold Pollack | Posted 04.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Great Society, War on Poverty, Appalachia, Time for Action Tour, John McCain, Lyndon Johnson, Inez, Politics News
Harold Pollack

This guy will be tough come November. His Appalachian tour is brilliant politics and offers nothing of substance that would actually help the heartland constituency that might vote for him.

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From 'A More Perfect Union' to Prices at the Grand Union

RJ Eskow | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Democratic Primaries, Hillary Clinton, More Perfect Union Speech, Jfk, Lyndon Johnson, Norman Mailer, Barack Obama, Indiana Primary, Politics News
RJ Eskow

It's becoming clear that Obama needs to do a better job speaking to the kind of voter once condescendingly described as a "regular person."

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When Elite Get Tough

Bruce Schulman | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics

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Bruce Schulman

While it may seem surprising to find a black man from a broken family fighting charges of snobbery, anti-elitism has been a familiar feature of American politics since the Republic's early days.

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April 4, 1968

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

Bobby Kennedy's brief remarks the night of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination would be later described as a small masterpiece of American public rhetoric made all the more poignant by his own assassination just eight weeks later.

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"I Shall Not Seek, and I Will Not Accept..."

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lbj, Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam War, LBJ Vietnam, Johnson Vietnam, March 31 Speech, Politics News
Robert Schlesinger

Forty years ago tonight, Lyndon B. Johnson stopped bombing Vietnam long enough to drop a big one on the U.S. political landscape.

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Deja Vu: 2008 as 1968

Stephen B. Cohen | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pledged Delegates, Delegates, Eugene McCarthy, 1968, Hillary, Mccarthy, Superdelegates, Johnson, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Politics News
Stephen B. Cohen

The 2008 superdelegates, like the unelected delegates in 1968, once again could split the party and help elect a Republican.

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On Texan Presidents

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Vietnam War, Lyndon Johnson, Iraq War, George W. Bush, Politics News
Jamie Stiehm

Simple truths are powerful. Here's one: the two presidents who mired us in unwinnable wars in modern times both hail from the same state of Texas. The Lone Star state has a lot to answer for.

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Clinton or Obama? Does the Media Have Nothing Better To Do Than Make Headlines With No Real Basis?

Michael Russnow | Posted 03.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Texas Primary, John F. Kennedy, Presidential Nominee, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Russnow, Media, Glass Ceiling, James Carville, Barack Obama, Ohio Primary, Cnn, Wyoming, Michael Russnow, Pennsylvania Primary, Hillary Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Lyndon Johnson, Mississippi, Media News
Michael Russnow

With Pennsylvania six weeks away, the media had to spike our interest by equalizing Hillary's big state victories by conning us into thinking that Wyoming and Mississippi are akin to Ohio and Texas.

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Obama is No JFK but Even If He Was His Inexperience Can't be Cavalierly Dismissed

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bill Clinton, Rfk, Jfk, Nikita Krushchev, Fidel Castro, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Fdr, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The lack of administrative and crisis management experience shouldn't disqualify a prospective presidential candidate, or mean that he or she will crumble under fire.

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40 Years Ago Today: Robert F. Kennedy's Most Important Speech on the Vietnam War

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Lyndon Johnson, Nguyen Van Theiu, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

At Robert Kennedy's February 8, 1968 appearance in Chicago, he decided to evaluate the meaning of the Tet Offensive.

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Bucking the Conventional Wisdom: Why I Am Voting for Barack Obama, and Why I Bet on the New York Giants

Warren Goldstein | Posted 02.04.2008 | Home

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Conventional Wisdom, New York Giants, Richard Nixon, Giants, Civil Rights Movement, 2008 Election, Super Tuesday, Superbowl, Hillary Clinton, George Mcgovern, Lyndon Johnson, Democratic Primary, Barack Obama, Home News
Warren Goldstein

Forty-eight years ago, on the playground of Crown Elementary School, in Coronado, California, I knew that Richard Nixon should be the next President o...

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Democrats, The Fault Lies Not In Our (Media Pundit) Stars, But In Ourselves

Tony Sachs | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mormons, Iowa Caucus, New Hampshire Primary, Republican Party Leadership, John Kerry, Eleanor Roosevelt, Democratic National Party, John Edwards, Presidential Election, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, South Carolina Primary, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Democrats, 2008 Election, Politics News
Tony Sachs

What kind of Kool-Aid are we Democrats drinking to think that Obama or Clinton have a snowball's chance in heck of being elected president this November?

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Nick Kristof Misfires (a Little) on Presidential Experience

Steve Clemons | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Nicholas Kristoff, Martin Luther King, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, William McKinley, Gerald Ford, Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Assessing the greatest and worst presidents is a process fraught with problems and subjective bias.

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Framing MLK And LBJ

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civil Rights Act, Primary, Framing, 1964, Civil Rights, Mlk, Campaign Coverage, Racial, Campaign, Media, Race, 2008 Election, 08 Elections, Barack Obama, Dreamer, Racial Politics, Primaries, Martin Luther King, Lbj, Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Race Card, Politics News
Chris Weigant

King's legacy is a third-rail issue -- touch it and you die in Democratic politics. Clinton was seen as somehow "slighting" King, and so she had to pay the price.

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MLK and LBJ: Movements and Politicians

Jim Wallis | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr, Voting Rights Act, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jim Wallis

The great practitioners of social change understood that you don't change a society by merely replacing one politician with another.

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