it's not just the people who have an alergic reation to them, but, peanuts, are dangerous.

it must have been one huge bag that fell on little Jimmy's head. or maybe he was just born a big goober.

RFK was a wiretapper. i wonder what he found out.

Jimmah turned me Republican,too. Remember the "national malaise"?? I was just a teenager
and all he held out was a gray depression and giving in to the bad guys. Even through the haze of the 70's I knew there was somethin' wrong with that picture.

Hi -

To my eternal embarassment, I voted for Carter back when. It was my first time voting.

While that's not an excuse, it is an explanation. I come from a more or less completely democratic family (got a brother-in-law who votes Republican, best thing my kid sister ever did), and I simply didn't know better.

I've been much better since. :-)

Excuse me, but if there is one person during this era who had bugged every house, it was Hoover, who, even if he didn't get involved as a politician, was more a republican than a democrat.

Well, I voted for Andersen. I wasnt totally convinced that reagan was the real deal until 82-84. I watched an ecomony and a nation at its knees in 79 brought completely around in 4 short years, the entire economy had turned around by the application of some pretty simple basic rules.

Tht was it for me. I never looked back.

I think Jack is falling into the same trap as Jimmy...What made Hoover more of a Republican in that era? Red baiting? That record was pretty shameful for both parties. RFK was the first assistant to Roy Cohn, McCarthy's notorious chief counsel.

Mr. Carter, not content with his almost certain lock on "Worst President of the 20th Century," seems determined to take "Worst ex-President of the 21st Century" as well.

You have to admire that kind of will to win.

@ Slick "Red baiting? That record was pretty shameful for both parties". Totally agree with you. But as far as civil liberties were concerned, Hoover was very restrective, wasn't he?
I didn't know that RFK ordered the bugging of Martin Luther King. Is it aknowledged ?

> I didn't know that RFK ordered the bugging of Martin Luther King. Is it aknowledged ?

> I didn't know that RFK ordered the bugging of Martin Luther King. Is it aknowledged ?

Yes, but don't take our word for it, you're attached to the internet. Use it. Do a search. You're likely to find out lots more of the Dems' Dirty Little Secrets.

yes, but don't take our word for it. Use the internet. You might find out some of the dem's DLS's

For example, what's this from:
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We pledge that an American citizen of Negro descent shall be given a square deal in the economic and political life of the nation. Discrimination in the civil service, the Army, the Navy, and all other branches of the government must cease. To enjoy the full benefits of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, universal suffrage must be made effective for the Negro citizen. Mob violence shocks the conscience of the nation and legislation to curb this evil should be enacted.
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A: it's from the 1940 Republican Presidential Platform.

Now, Ever hear of the "Dixicrats"? No? Go do a search on their history. Wikipedia, if you like, but any search engine ought to do.

Now contrast: 1940 GOP vs. attitudes blatantly prevalent, or at least common enough to cause a schizm, in the 1948 Dems.

Who, exactly, is the party with the history of racism?

This was no "recent pandering", either.

Remember, Lincoln was a Republican.

Civil Liberties? I think as far as freedom FROM government, republicans were traditionally more on the liberty side. As far as the more recently recognized liberties I suppose the dems are more supportive.
I'm not sure that law and order was a dem or repub issue until recently, to the detriment of the dems.
Foreign military adventures used to be more of a dem thing (T.R. aside) more recently (Reagan on) that seems to have switched.

From October 24, 1963, to June 21, 1966,(43) the FBI also engaged in an extensive program of electronic surveillance of Dr. King. The committee found it was conducted in a particularly abusive fashion. FBI agents who monitored the devices, although they were initially instructed to be especially alert for contacts between Dr. King and Communist connections, (44) exercised little discretion in deciding what to overhear and record. Private and personal conversations were recorded, as were conversations between Dr. King and Government officials.5 In fact, the development of personal information that, might be derogatory to Dr. King became a major objective of the surveillance effort.(45) The committee found that the Department of Justice shared responsibility for the surveillance, since it was initially authorized by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

Fron JFK archives -page 426:

http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-2e.html#electronic