dagblog - Comments for "IT WAS 1968"

Here is a link for you. It

trkingmomoe — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 13:35:13 +0000

In reply to IT WAS 1968

Here is a link for you. It has a President Johnson ad that is interesting. I had forgotten about this 4 minute commercial. Everyone remembers the daisy one but this was also an important one. There is some parallels draw from that election and what is going on with Trump.

http://democraticvoices.com/2016/03/trump-rise-brings-back-chilling-memories/

I don't know if you read this

trkingmomoe — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 02:29:25 +0000

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I don't know if you read this yet at HufPo. Howard Fineman wrote this. Donald Trump is what happens when America can't handle change.

America usually thrives on change, but once in a generation we're overwhelmed by the pace of it -- and our politics go haywire.

We haven't been this unsettled since the Sixties (actually 1963 to 1975), when the nation was torn by assassination, war, race, corruption and generational change. In presidential politics, the year 1964 produced conservative GOP nominee Barry Goldwater, who horrified the party's establishment; 1968 produced George Wallace, the race-baiting Alabamian who terrorized both parties; and 1972 featured Richard Nixon, who left town two years later after being caught trying to shred the Constitution.

This year, the strain of change has given us a foul-mouthed, proudly insensitive, narcissistic real estate developer with a penchant for flimsy deals, ever malleable views, a shaky relationship with the concept of truth and no experience in government whatsoever.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-america-change_us_56d8b0a2e4b03a405677e81f

Like you I lived through every minute of it. LBJ was my hero because he thought of hungry kids in school. What I remember of Humphrey and McGovern was they accused each other about corruption in the Ohio primary. The campaign had gotten really nasty by the time it reached Ohio.

It took courage to force change then. We ended the draft. It is taking courage to force change now. We are forcing the end of corporations of buying politicians.

Oh Dick, the world won't end

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 14:31:10 +0000

In reply to PERACLES this is wondrous.

Oh Dick, the world won't end for you - you're the cornerstone of our Empire.

Maybe trade this worldly one for Empire of the Sun, that'd be more fitting. During the Day, you rule, during the night, we get some work done. Deal?

PERACLES this is wondrous.

Richard Day — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:47:53 +0000

In reply to Sounds like you & Bryan Adams

PERACLES this is wondrous.

Hell, Woodstock was '69 and it ended the decade proudly.

I have written before that at that time, I thought the world might end. hahahahaha

And now all these people tell me, fifty years later, that the world will end soooooooooon hahahahah

Now we are supposed to care about emails and nonsense.

Back in '68 the world was about to end.

MLK & Kennedy and Bobby and....all these fine folks killed.

And then there was Chicago.

The end is nigh for me of course. hahahahahah

But the world will keep on keepin on, whether in the fashion I had hoped or not.

Thank you for this presentation Peracles.

You give me hope.

This is great music.

Sounds like you & Bryan Adams

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:00:37 +0000

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Sounds like you & Bryan Adams were off by just a year.

But what he really wondered was "You didn't come here for music, did you? You came for for something more. How about all of you come up on stage and fuck me. Wanna see my cock?" Those indeed were the best years of my life.... The LIzard King sez turn out the lights.