MLK v LBJ?! NO CONTEST!!!!!!! - by Gary Wiram
Figgins, the youngest in our home, has been confused about some recent incidents in the current Presidential campaign where some candidates have been accused of trying to "play the race card"....
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Mississippi Turning
The vote today in Mississippi had special resonance for me. It was 44 years ago this month that I decided to participate in Freedom Summer in the Magnolia State, registering black voters. After...
View ArticleA truly seismic event in U S history
occurred 44 years ago today. It was a Friday. It was in fact Good Friday. And in Alaska they experienced the full force of what the Earth can render when at 5:36 in the evening they were struck...
View ArticleCompare these two ads
After conducting the requisite search, I didn't find another diary that put these together, so I'm going ahead with it. My apologies if it turns out my searching skills are deficient (or I've violated...
View ArticleTo Senator Obama, from a Non-Dirty F*ing Hippie
I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America... I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown, but there wasn’t much sense of...
View ArticleSecond wives, Arizona gaffes, birthdays & other links to 1964.
Sarah Palin was born in 1964. Why is that year so important?Jimmy Carter provided humanity. Bill Clinton an amazing economy. But it was back in 1964 that Lyndon B. Johnson delivered the last...
View ArticleTime to hit McCain on temperament? w/1964 Daisy Ad video, poll
In 1964 it was Goldwater's temperament:LBJ "Daisy Ad" political commercial, aired September 7, 1964"I just shudder to think what would happen if Goldwater won it. He's a man that's had two nervous...
View ArticleEnough is enough. Take out McCain on temperament issue, NOW!
OK, enough is enough. We see that McCain and Palin are going to lie, lie and more lie, all the way to election day. That is their game plan. They have no ethical standards. They have no integrity. They...
View ArticleBacklash! Lessons in Negative Campaigning and the Echo of 1964
The episode of Bill Moyer's Journal that aired last night on PBS featured a discussion with the Annenberg Public Policy Center's Kathleen Hall Jamieson on the role dirty politics may play in the last...
View ArticleGOP: Operation Eagle Eye (1964)
ACORN registered over a million new voters for the coming election. That's their real crime. Charges of fraud from the GOP is just the GOP's standard operating procedure.It's all about voter...
View ArticleDing Dong the witch is NOT dead: remembering 1964
All indications are that we're heading for a crushing landslide victory a week from Tuesday. We're all looking forward to it, and rightfully so. It's been a long time, and victory is sweet.And yes,...
View Article1964: The LBJ Wall (w/ poll)
As we sort through the mostly-fragrant ashes of Campaign 2008, I took a little time to think about a theme I've heard the TV talkers refer to a fair amount this week:"Since 1964"You know the easy ones:...
View ArticleWorst Christmas Story....
Everyone has their best Christmas story,and their worst. This is my worst..Mostly because it was sad, but I'm sure there are far worse out there, but what to do now about that memoir I was working on,...
View ArticleFlashback: 1964 Republican campaign ad for Goldwater
I'd like to share with all of you a Youtube video I found today on the internet. It's only been viewed about 500 times so far, but it is such an interesting bit of history that I just have to share it...
View ArticleThe 39% Polling Floor
"She'll wipe the floor with him!""This will be epic; a landslide!" Many of us who read, comment and post diaries here are political activists and polling junkies. 2 points change in Nebraska's Box...
View ArticleThe Goldwater Ad. No, not "Daisy"
I'm old enough (?) to remember seeing this ad on the TeeVee in '64 but I'd totally forgotten about it. It was highlighted on TPM this morning http://talkingpointsmemo.com/.... I mention it because it...
View ArticleAllen West Pines for the Halcyon Days of American Apartheid
Yes. That Allen West. No, he hasn't really gone away. The craziest and most outspoken wing-nuts never go away. They get gigs on FOX.And they get invited to events put on by crooks like GOP grifter,...
View ArticleHoaxes 101: Ronald Reagan's 1980 States-Rights Speech in Mississippi Didn't...
Corporate media had one helluva problem this week. Nelson Mandela opposed the apartheid system. In speech and with presidential acts, Ronald Reagan supported it.They had to cover up for Ronald Reagan....
View ArticleMichelle Obama's Birthyear As Seen by a 14 yo suburban White boy
Fraser and Marian Robinson brought their daughter, Michelle, into the South Side of Chicago in 1964. Hundreds of miles away, I was a ninth grader in a junior high school in the suburban fringe of a...
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Deacons for Defense
In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization--the Deacons...
View ArticleMeet The Beatles . . . and what they replaced
H/T to Mark Sumner who linked this article by Michael Tomasky in his Abbreviated Pundit Roundup this morning. He gets the gist of the op-ed piece exactly correct:To the America that existed then, the...
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Here come The Beatles
We knew The Beatles were coming months before they arrived here. I was suspicious. I liked rock & roll. I liked many kinds of music. I didn't have a great cultural or emotional investment in...
View ArticleWilliam deBuys: Love Affair in the Back Country
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Without visiting it, the eighteenth-century French natural scientist...
View ArticleMeeting The Beatles, 1964
Except Paul. Paul was in the house.This is how I remember it:The Beatles played the Hollywood Bowl on August 23, 1964. It was the summer after my freshman year in high school. Somehow I had a...
View ArticleQuestion of the night: Your top 5 favorite Twilight Zone episodes
If you are like me, you grew up on the Twilight Zone.Shoot, I like the Zone as much as any other science fiction show, even Star Trek.I recall having nightmares as a kid... from "Room for one more,...
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The political center decides elections—but where is it?
I found Sanders’big new feel-good TV ad offensive, explained why in a DK comment, and suggested an alternative. A respondent said I should tell his campaign. Then I saw another DK diary saying the...
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Hillary Clinton in the Civil Rights Era
Factless gossip that is sometimes believed though easily disproven is never good to hear. Like the gossip coming from those who say Hillary Clinton’s 1964 canvassing for Barry Goldwater shows that she...
View ArticleHELP ME!
I turn today to my fellow Kossacks, searching for help with a situation I am sure that many of us have faced. If you live in a totally red state and you are a liberal or in my case very very liberal,...
View ArticleThe desegregation bus
It was in a bus like this that I was driven in to an all-white school after being plucked out of my normal school. I don’t know if my Mother received a letter from the district or not. She spoke little...
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Virginia Congressional District Results, 1964; an Election Retrospective, Part 1
IntroductionPolitics in may ways is much more uniform today than it was a few decades ago, when there were conservatives and liberals and moderates in both parties. This could often result in...
View ArticleTwo Very Different Responses to Landslide Losses for President
Barry M. Goldwater and George S. McGovern lost presidential elections in landslides that occurred only eight years apart, in 1964 and 1972, respectively. There has been much conversation over the years...
View ArticleHow Did We Get Here And What Do We Do About It?
How did the country that used to be known for doing great things such as creating Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Boulder Dam, the Interstate Highway System, creating the worlds largest and...
View ArticleI'm with Bernie Sanders, the "Lion-Hearted": Courageous, Consistent and...
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:Like many others on the left, I wondered what a post-heart attack, stent implanted Bernie Sanders would look like when he took the stage on October 15 for the...
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The Vice Presidency - 1964
Discussions of presidential tickets always revives an old interest of mine: The Vice Presidency. Yes, an interest in this much-maligned office is like an interest in silver medalists or sedans rather...
View ArticleWhen Will A Majority Of White America Get "Tired"?
It is currently something of a recurring theme in my personal life that several disparate individuals that I know are experiencing very significant change in their lives. And the rather distinct...
View ArticleThe Beatles! Nine Great Beatles Hits, plus many other great hits, from 1964
UPDATE: Monday, Nov 21, 2022 · 1:53:24 AM +00:00·bigjacbigjacbigjacHey, we got on the trending list!Hugs!I started this diary series, with the hits from the year I was born, because I was aware, that...
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