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Well, fortuitous that when he said it, he mostly meant what he said rather than using it as a cover story for a different agenda. Things could have gone very badly with someone as skilled as a communicator but looking for something other than radical reform in order to save the system from its own worst excesses.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Mon Apr 16th, 2012 at 11:24:26 PM EST
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Kennedy, at a minimum, was willing to take on TPTB, as with the steel industry, Johnson was distracted by his dual agenda of 'guns and butter', no president since has even tried to rein in finance and finance has taken care of business since that time.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Apr 17th, 2012 at 11:14:52 AM EST
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