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UNFIT for the Comments Page | UNFIT — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:39:32 +0000

[...] our “few kind remarks about the last Democratic president con cojones” after he read our take on why today’s Dems could use a helping of LBJ-style whoop-ass. You’re welcome, Robert. [...]

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UNFIT for a Celebration | UNFIT — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:48:01 +0000

[...] of the weeds, it’s the Space Preservation Act or martial law. Unless, of course, he wants to bust some heads and get that health care thing [...]

By: Robert Hampton

Robert Hampton — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:15:17 +0000

Amen and thank you for a few kind remarks about the last Democratic president con cojones. It sometimes seems that the only association people have with the name “Lyndon Johnson” is “Vietnam”, a tar baby which we had hugged long before LBJ took office and which we were still hugging years after he left. The unrivaled (and I include FDR) domestic accomplishments of the Johnson Administration don’t seem to register. As to Vietnam, of course he “should” have found a way out instead of getting in deeper… as “should” have Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nixon. However, had he done so, he very likely would have been impeached, or at best rendered politically impotent, for losing the largely imaginary Republic of Viet Nam. The American electorate (given its historic and ongoing susceptibility to bogus scares and conspiracy flim-flams, and LBJ’s own lack of JFK-style glamour) wouldn’t have saved him. As things stand, Obama seems to have two choices: (a) a mixed legacy similar to Johnson’s, i.e., a failure to resolve an objectively unwinnable Asian war but with major domestic accomplishments on behalf of the working and middle classes, or (b) an unmixed (and undistinguished) legacy of an unresolved war and no major domestic accomplishments. This less-than-ideal choice is in part Obama’s own fault, given his enthusiastic embrace of the Afghan tail-chase, but in larger part it results from American electoral reality: substitute “terrorism” now for “Communism” then, and the herd’s eyes roll and a stampede impends. In any case, at present, and absent some astounding transformation on his part, Obama appears headed for (b).

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UNFIT for Democracy | UNFIT — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:09:58 +0000

[...] exception of Barney Frank) have been no better. As my Unfit colleague Josh Rosenblatt has pointed out, the pathetic effort put forth by the party in defense of the health care plan serves only as [...]