Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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I don’t feel like we’re only doing it on Instagram. There are many, many people out there doing the real work. The point is to help them. candidatesummit.com
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Today is JFK’s birthday (b. 1917) . His Inaugural address: ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?fla…
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Looking thru Twitter you see people saying democracy is dead, democracy is dying, democracy might die, some even questioning whether we ever were a democracy. I see a democracy under attack and a generation rising up to say “HELL NO. It will not die on our watch.”
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That’s like saying no matter who was president we would’ve gone into Iraq. I can’t imagine a world in which Al Gore would’ve taken us into Iraq. And there were plenty of politicians at the time who disagreed with Johnson.
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Watch “The Wisdom of Trauma” for an illuminating look into the work of Gabor Maté. wisdomoftrauma.com
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At that time that was a huge antiwar movement! Eugene McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy both ran as anti-war presidential candidates.
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Mansplainer Alert. Vietnam, if you want to follow English popular usage. Viet Nam, if you want to respect the Vietnamese language.
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Spirituality is the path of the heart - not a separate category of life but the thread that unifies & gives purpose to everything. Anything not used for the purposes of love becomes dangerous & chaotic. Anything devoted to the purposes of love becomes merciful, reparative & just.
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In terms of legislation and domestic policy he was extraordinarily good. But that was my point. It was he, not Kennedy, who went full speed ahead in Vietnam.
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Not necessarily true at all. The defense establishment at the time was high on the “domino theory.” RFK claimed his brother planned to leave Vietnam. We’ll never know.
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I don’t agree. They’re indicting people for specific crimes but a commission would have the job of discerning the whole picture, seeing why and how it played out the way it did.
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If he had been a decent person and wanted to surround himself with decent people he could have and would have.
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When Kennedy died it was a small presence. LBJ turned it into the huge horror that it became.
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I don’t think it was his lack of experience so much as his lack of ethics, lack of respect for democracy & lack of decency that made it so bad.
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.@billmaher LBJ the most qualified president ever & he took us into Viet Nam. Bush was Gov of Tx & Cheney Sec of DOD & they took us into Iraq. Don’t agree with your “qualifications” argument. Experience at what was is not always the best qualification for creating what could be
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