To all those who have supported the constant killing of the unborn, entitlements for those who don???t deserve them, for assisting undocumented illegals, to corrupted politicians, sanctuary cities, to USDA agents forcing the implantation of chips into the livestock herds of America, to those pushing social security numbers and locater chips on newborns, to thieves who forced an unconstitutional income tax on ???sovereign??? American workers, for the loss of privacy, the restraint of second amendment natural rights, to BATFE master search and arrest warrants, to SWAT teams and Taser Thugs in every hamlet in the land, to all of the homosexual rights fanatics and bullies who use their perverted lifestyles to intimidate my grandchildren in school and in the parks, to drug dealers who employ minority kids in Obama???s south Chicago neighborhoods, and the young men and women in our military who are now mercenaries trained to rove our streets when the first shots are fired and produce body counts similar to the ones in Iraq, you have become my potential enemy.
History of the ‘S’ Bomb
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"Dear Barry," he replied on Aug. 11, 1960. "I think all of us have to decide for ourselves what represents a "socialist" platform, and what represents the reasonable consensus upon which a political party can honorably go to the country. I made my decision not on the basis of seeking [to be Kennedy's running mate] which would lead to 'great things,' but upon my inner belief as to what represented a clear call to duty. Sincerely, Lyndon B. Johnson."
The correspondence was discovered last weekend in the LBJ Library by Ben Barnes, a veteran Washington lobbyist from Texas and former Johnson protégé. Barnes was prompted to look for the letters after reading McCain approvingly quote his campaign's newfound workingman's hero, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (a.k.a. Joe the Plumber) saying that Obama's economic views "sounded a lot like socialism."
"At least in Europe, the socialist leaders who so admire my opponent are up front about their objectives," McCain said in a speech last Saturday in New Hampshire.
The parallels were not lost on Barnes. In an e-mail to NEWSWEEK attached to the correspondence, he wrote: "Ironically, this is not the first time a Senator from Arizona has attacked the Democratic nominee charging socialism."
Robert Dallek, a historian and Johnson biographer, says he's never seen the 1960 exchange between Johnson and Goldwater that Barnes discovered. But Dallek says that "in terms of where Goldwater was at the time, it doesn't surprise me." The charge of "socialism" against Democrats like Kennedy and Johnson "is the kind of rhetoric the country had been hearing [from conservative Republicans] for a while."
It wasn't always politically effective. Kennedy and Johnson narrowly edged their Republican opponents, Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, in the 1960 election. Four years later, Johnson trounced Goldwater in a landslide.
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