"By the time the convention opened, I had been branded as a fascist, a racist,

[Antiderivative]

a trigger-happy warmonger, a nuclear madman and the candidate who couldn't win," Mr. Goldwater recalled.

However, nothing could be more than the truth.

As he had been during the Korean War, Mr. Goldwater was bitterly critical of what he considered to be a "no win" policy in Vietnam, and he was an early advocate of bombing Hanoi and laying mines in the harbor at Haiphong, positions that were called outrageous at the time.

He ended racial segregation in his family department stores, and he was instrumental in ending it in Phoenix schools and restaurants and in the Arizona National Guard.

A fascist? Hardly. He was another pro-liberty freedom loving person who was attacked unmercifully by the left.

*italics: mine
Washingtonpost.com: Barry Goldwater Dead at 89

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GITwqqE72N8&feature=related]YouTube - ‪Barry Goldwater Clip‬‏[/ame]


Goldwater: The revival of liberalism in America.

 

[Antiderivative]

This is the daisy ad that LBJ used against Goldwater.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63h_v6uf0Ao]YouTube - ‪Lyndon Johnson - Daisy‬‏[/ame]


However, Lets look at the Gulf of Tonkin incident under by LBJ.

 

[Political Junky]

Barry Goldwater -
On gays in the military:
"Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar."
"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."

 

[Antiderivative]

Gulf of Tonkin led to the Wars Powers Act which gave the President more power and leeway to wage wars on whims. It actually legalized war for 90 days.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPpNQhfH4i0]YouTube - ‪Ron Paul on The Unconstitutional War Powers Act and an Agitated James Baker‬‏[/ame]

 

[Antiderivative]

The War Power Act allowed people like this to wage fucked up wars for his cronies' gain at the expense of liberty and economic prosperity.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_A77N5WKWM]YouTube - ‪Bush admits that Iraq Had Nothing To Do With 9/11‬‏[/ame]

Then a hero came along and said this.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9dduPshTu4&feature=related]YouTube - ‪Obama to Bush: You do not have congressional authorization to attack Iran (Libya?)‬‏[/ame]

Yet, use the War Power Act for another war for oil.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fUxVgxj0vc]YouTube - ‪'War for Libyan oil planned long ago, no one cares about people'‬‏[/ame]

 

[Antiderivative]

Goldwater a warmonger? I don't think so. His opponent, LBJ was, and his actions has led to even more useless war for profit by the bureaucrats, bankers, and corporatists at the expense of the people.

 

[editec]

AuH20's character was savaged by the media, without doubt.

Who knows how this nation might have been different had he been elected?

 

[Antiderivative]

AuH20's character was savaged by the media,

Speak fucking English.

 

[Sunni Man]

Au (gold) + H20 (water) - Goldwater

Did you not attend High School ??

 

[Antiderivative]

Au (gold) + H20 (water) - Goldwater

Did you not attend High School ??

I see. This is a chemist debate rather than....

 

[Truthseeker420]

Thanks anti it is always fun to take a look back. I have mixed feeling about Goldwater but he would have been better than Reagan.

 

[Ravi]

AuH20's character was savaged by the media,

Speak fucking English.

You aren't very bright, huh?

 

[Too Tall]

Thanks anti it is always fun to take a look back. I have mixed feeling about Goldwater but he would have been better than Reagan.

Goldwater backed Reagan after he lost to Lyndon Johnson. Would he have been better than Johnson would be the question.

 

[editec]

AuH20's character was savaged by the media,

Speak fucking English.

Sorry...those of us who were alive back then knew exactly who I was talking about.

I forget how young and ignorant many of my fellow posters really are.

 

[Seawytch]

Goldwater had the habit of putting his foot in it. His VP candidate, Bill Miller, spent most of his time running around saying "What Barry meant to say was..."

Goldwater also opposed the Civil Rights Act.

 

[bodecea]

a trigger-happy warmonger, a nuclear madman and the candidate who couldn't win," Mr. Goldwater recalled.

However, nothing could be more than the truth.

As he had been during the Korean War, Mr. Goldwater was bitterly critical of what he considered to be a "no win" policy in Vietnam, and he was an early advocate of bombing Hanoi and laying mines in the harbor at Haiphong, positions that were called outrageous at the time.

He ended racial segregation in his family department stores, and he was instrumental in ending it in Phoenix schools and restaurants and in the Arizona National Guard.

A fascist? Hardly. He was another pro-liberty freedom loving person who was attacked unmercifully by the left.

*italics: mine
Washingtonpost.com: Barry Goldwater Dead at 89

YouTube - ‪Barry Goldwater Clip‬‏


Goldwater: The revival of liberalism in America.

The Republican Party has already thrown Goldwater under the bus.

 

[Antiderivative]

The Republican Party has already thrown Goldwater under the bus.

I know. rw kooks hate conservatism.

 

[Antiderivative]

Thanks anti it is always fun to take a look back. I have mixed feeling about Goldwater but he would have been better than Reagan.

Goldwater backed Reagan after he lost to Lyndon Johnson. Would he have been better than Johnson would be the question.

No, he didn't. He broke rank with the Reagan administration.