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| 2006-02-27 |
| "Hillary Clinton is the Barry Goldwater of the democratic party." Now, granted this does not do AUH2O any justice, but when it was said, the democrats in the room squirmed mightily. That is good enough for me. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #7 ROFLMAO, #6! You win. :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-02-27 23:13 |
| #6 n yur gutz u no shes nutz /too olde |
| Posted by: 6 2006-02-27 17:55 |
| #5 Nimble, I wrote on this topic in grad school at UT. I did a lot of research at the LBJ Library and knew Walt Rostow, LBJ's NSA, quite well. Neither LBJ nor the people around him who crafted the Act really understood what they were doing. Bobby Kennedy is on record, while Attorney General, as saying that there would probably be only 5,000 Asians come to the U.S. in the first year after which "immigration from that source will dry up." Check the Congressional Record for 1965--it's there in the Senate hearings. This Act was to please the urban ethnic pols--Italians, Poles, Greeks, etc. Nobody--except a right wing group whose brochure I found in the LBJ archives--seemed to have a clue about what would really happen. Johnson certainly didn't. You can read The Vantage Point from cover to cover without ever seeing one word LBJ wrote about the Act. It's listed only on the inside cover along with all the other legislation he passed. Like I said before, I've never seen a clearer example of the law of unintended consequences. |
| Posted by: mac 2006-02-27 17:34 |
| #4 You're absolutely right about that, mac, except that I believe they did have a good idea of what would happen, at least that it would reverse the old preferences for Europeans in favor of their worlders. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-02-27 17:16 |
| #3 Goldwater WAS right. But we elected LBJ and it's been all downhill from there. If any of you doubt the saying that God makes great things happen from small things, I urge you to study the Immigration Reform Act of 1965. People today remember LBJ for the Vietnam War. A generation from now people will remember him far more for that Act and Vietnam will be only a footnote. Intended as a throwaway piece of legislation to mollify a potentially restive piece of Johnson's huge post-1964 majority, it changed the country more than anything since the Great Depression and NONE of its authors had the slightest idea of what their actions were really going to do to the country. If they had they certainly wouldn't have done it. I'm sure Johnson is royally pissed to know that he, a proud Anglo Texan, is almost singlehandedly responsible for making Texas a majority minority state. I've never seen a better example of the law of unintended consequences. |
| Posted by: mac 2006-02-27 17:08 |
| #2 Yup, Barry was real clear about what he believed. Nothing sleazy about him, however much you might disagree with him. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-02-27 16:31 |
| #1 "In your heart, you know he's right!" could never be said of Hillary... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2006-02-27 16:29 |