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Was LBJ the worst President of all time?

Posted on 7/15/18 at 3:01 am
Posted by TaTa Toothy
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 3:01 am
Had thousands killed needlessly and created the Welfare Nation. Hard to top.
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 3:02 am to
He's definitely up there. Also incredibly dirty
Posted by Michael Hayes
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 3:04 am to
Yep. Right up there with Barry Hussein Soyboima
Posted by JackieTreehorn
Malibu
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 3:10 am to
I’ve always hated that son of a bitch Millard Filmore.
Posted by Sentrius
Fort Rozz
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 3:27 am to
LBJ literally signed into law modern day America with the welfare state, the administrative state, and the military industrial complex with things like the great society, medicaid, and the Vietnam war.

He was a special kind of piece of shite. One of the biggest tragedies in American history was that JFK didn't get rid of him fast enough before the 1964 election.
Posted by Shiftyplus1
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 3:34 am to
On top of that, he used to whip his dick out and ask people's opinion of his penis.
Posted by Strannix
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 3:46 am to
FDR worst by far
Posted by Muthsera
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 4:08 am to
Woodrow Wilson /thread
Posted by ChineseBandit58
Pearland, TX
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 4:10 am to
Yes. Creation of the welfare state is the worst thing to ever happen in America. Excluding slavery of course.

To know that it was done purposefully for cynical political advantage makes it the single most malicious act by any POTUS.
Posted by VolsOut4Harambe
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 4:12 am to
LBJ is the reason for America’s downfall.
Posted by Tiger Lake
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 6:03 am to
Obama was the worst. NO ONE is even close.
Posted by Cowboy Tiger
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 6:18 am to
quote:

Had thousands killed needlessly and created the Welfare Nation. Hard to top.


I agree. I do believe there are three or four more right there with him. Unfortunately, with each passing day I believe more and more that W. Bush ranks right there with LBJ, Obama, Carter and Wilson.

I voted for Bush twice even though I lived in Texas and I thought he was a poor governor. Unfortunately, I probably would again given the choices. In Trump's words, "very sad".

Bush had thousands killed needlessly and grew the welfare state. He did nothing about illegal immigration. He upset the balance of power in the middle east much like Carter. Hell, pretty much his first act in office was to "reach across the the aisle" to none other than Teddy Kennedy and pass "no child left behind". The SOB is a damn joke.
This post was edited on 7/15/18 at 6:22 am
Posted by ragincajun03
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 7:28 am to
Yes.

He was unabashed racist too.
Posted by OBReb6
Memphissippi
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 7:32 am to
Not according to Ken Burns. In his Vietnam War docuseries he makes him look like an honorable man that was put into bad situations. It was a joke.
Posted by NC_Tigah
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 7:41 am to
quote:

Was LBJ the worst President of all time?
Worst person who served in the office, without a doubt. And that list includes a few doozies . . . Harding, Nixon, etc.
Posted by Parmen
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 8:05 am to
Gulf of Tonkin was the biggest false flag operation ever
Posted by weptiger
Georgia
Member since Feb 2007
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 8:06 am to
Johnson was an arse.

The last 50 plus years has not been a collection of winners on either side of the aisle - aside from Reagan:

Johnson
Tricky Dick
Carter
Bush 41
Clinton (Republican House kept him in check)
Bush 43
Barry


This post was edited on 7/15/18 at 8:45 am
Posted by Erin Go Bragh
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 8:26 am to
If we're voting I would say, yes, LBJ is the worst to ever hold the office. He was Kennedy's marriage of convenience and we're still enduring his misguided legacy.
Posted by Andychapman13
Member since Jun 2016
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 8:36 am to
I’ve read all of Robert Cairo’s The Years of LBJ Books, about 4000 page total. He was Machiavelli’s Prince. He knew how to gain and maintain power. What he did in the Senate was pretty impressive. However, he was not a man of strong moral conviction and hence a terrible leader. Prior to becoming president he never had to take a stance on a single issue in his career and realized not taking a stance gave him so much more power by alienating the least amount of people possible.
The Vietnam and Civil Rights things, 2 issues he was arguably on the wrong side of both, overwhelmed him and he folded.
They say he “decided not to run for re-election bc of his health”, Butt his poll numbers were so bad from late 67 until he annnounced that he wasn’t running for re-election that he knew he wa dead in the water.
The Great Society alone makes him the worst president ever of what label “the free world”, but the above mentioned examples reinforce it!
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
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Posted on 7/15/18 at 8:37 am to
It was Carter. There is no question about this if you lived through it, and the numbers back it up.
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