Re: Kudos To Mike Barnicle
Guess I am going to have to pull the age thing on you when you talk about there being more opposition to George Bush than to LBJ. Those just aren't the facts. Remember even two members of his own party were running against him before LBJ pulled out in 1968 namely Eugene McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy. Moreover, there were hundreds and hundreds of marches and sit-in and teach-in across the country and on college campuses. I even attended a sold out rally for Eugene McCarthy at Fenway Park in 1968 although I wasn't part of any organized protest movement. I was just draft bait. College and Grad School deferments kept me out long enough to get into the Army Reserves. Unlike Bill Clinton and George Bush anyone with half a brain knew how to manipulate the Selective Service System to avoid the Draft as long as possible and to seek alternatives. Neither Clinton or Bush have the testicular fortitude to admit they did the very same thing. Clinton used his connections with Senator William Fulbright of Arkansas to get out of the draft and become a Rhodes Scholar and Bush while no Rhodes Scholar used his father's influence in Texas to get him into a cushy Air National Guard Unit. For my part, I didn't know anyone I just put my name on the list and God was with me. The Sixties was not a fun time in which to grow up. In fact, I found Forest Gump one of the most depressing movies I have ever seen because it laid out every awful event of that time in living color and it was nothing to laugh at. So, back to your point. George Bush's protests cannot hold a candle to LBJ's and rightfully so. If this war continues however, I would not be surprised if the protest movement picked up considerable strength as Bush's administration weakens under each new scandal.
> > Let's just say those hooter and hollerers in the audience
> > would be better suited for WWF than TTK.
>
> Well, maybe they were just excited to see Hannity, O'Reilly,
> et al.
>
>
> > I was trying to follow Barnicle's lead and take the
> politics
> > out of it.
>
> right
>
>
> > I grew up under Lyndon Baines Johnson and his phony
> war....
> > read the latest on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident , August
> > 1964. I don't trust any politician.
>
> I'm slightly younger than you (I was 6 when Nixon took
> office)...
> so I wasn't quite aware of everything at the time.
>
> Well, we have to try to trust politicians..."lesser of the
> two
> evils", "evil of the two lessers" etc.
>
> After I made my post in which I mentioned there wasn't
> really any
> anti-war/anti-military involvement protest marches during
> the Clinton
> years it did dawn on me that there were some during the
> Johnson
> administration with Vietnam, and yes there were chants of
> Hey Hey
> LBJ How Many Kids Did You Kill Today, etc.; though the
> opposition
> to that President was still nothing like the anti-Bush
> fervent
> seen more recently.
> (Referring to my "opposition to the war seems more
> pronounced during
> Republican administrations" thinking)
>
