What did not suck about LBJ

What did not suck about Lyndon B. Johnson.

About Vietnam, in light of WWI, WWII and Korea, LBJ said: “Retreat does not bring safety. Weakness does not bring peace.”


What did suck about LBJ:
War on Poverty; welfare, food stamps, public housing, etc. Spend us into oblivion.

The idea of a “limited war”.  Limited war = lose war.

Gave up on Vietnam in order to fund the War on Poverty.  Therefore he lost both wars.

Corrupt. Personal wealth increased by many millions while a Senator and President.

Mean to his wife.

More on what sucks about LBJ here:

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,316919,00.html

War on Poverty eh. Looks like Poverty won that one

Don’t forget the 1968 Gun Control Act.

He didn’t destroy NASA.

He was WW2 Vet.

He was from Texas.

I once ate some of his BBQ and it was very good. I was only five years old and thought his wife had a funny name…

Upon returning from S.E. Asia, I thought the “War on Poverty” was awesome. Boy’o was I wrong! As the Indian Reservations we have enslaved millions of Americans and made them wards of the state.

He micromanaged the Vietnam War. He once bragged that “they can’t hit an outhouse without my permission”. What a jerk.

Anyone else click on this thinking it was about Lebron James? :smiley:

He didn’t attend a church for 20 years where the pastor said “G-d damn America” and the like?

What don’t suck about LBJ…
He is the only cat we can pet.

What sucks about LBJ…
He is hard on the rest of the male cats and kills the kittens.

We had an old Mommy cat come around and had 4 pure white cats and 1 mostly black cat with white markings. This happened about the time Obama went in office.

We named him Little Black Jesus… LBJ :sarcastic:

I don’t like him because I got pulled over in front of his ranch for a tail light being out.

His Deer Blind Rules:p I hunted on one of his old ranches and they gave me a tour of his deer blind. It had an elevator going up into it, AC/Heat, bed, bar, desk, and Lights. The elevator is obviously over the top, but the funny thing about the lights was he created the funding for new stadium lights for the local highschool so he could get their old stadium lights for his deer blind which were on top of it and aimed out over a wide open plot as he preferred to hunt deer at night by stadium light:D Gotta love TX:D

He quit before he was run off.

We’ve only been fighting it for 50 years ForTehNguyen. These things take time…

While I’ve got you here, how bout you 'splain your handle?

He didn’t seek a second term and do four more years of catastrophic damage.

Even from the ashes, you can’t keep 500grains quiet during an election year! :lol:

It would be interesting to have him back. :smiley:

Perhaps not the word I would choose, but I will concede he did create an environment conducive to lively discourse. :shout:

His wife, Ladybird. Among other things, she championed highway beautification and cofounded the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center.

Couldn’t agree more.

we declared a war on poverty, and what happened, we got more of it. Scores of people on welfare and dependent on govt entitlements that we didnt have before. Same thing with the War on Drugs, we got more drug use and more violence because of it.

That’s what I said.