Comments on: A political tale of 60 years ago pertains today

By: Milton Waddams

Milton Waddams — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:34:39 +0000

The difference is now the candidates rely on 527s to do their mudslinging, so they can remain on the “high road”.

By: redrover

redrover — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:33:14 +0000

The Founding Finaglers knew all about this sort of tactic:
SEE:
The Founding Mudslingers
By Edward J. Larson
The Washington Post, Friday, July 4, 2008; Page A17
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070302452.html

So did Machiavelli.
SEE:
Worse than Mud
By Danielle Allen
The Washington Post, Thursday, July 10, 2008; Page A15
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070901937.html

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:16:37 +0000

I have no idea what your post means. But if, by chance, you are referring to dirty tricks, we can talk about Richard Nixon. There is plenty to talk about there.

By: Menlo Bob

Menlo Bob — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:15:16 +0000

Ha, Johnson was a piece of work. Here’s another one, this time involving your heart-throb and Lyndon Johnson syncophant Bill Moyers.

“Only a few weeks before the 1964 election, a powerful presidential assistant, Walter Jenkins, was arrested in a men’s room in Washington. Evidently, the president was concerned that Barry Goldwater would use that against him in the election. Another assistant, Bill Moyers, was tasked to direct Hoover to do an investigation of Goldwater’s staff to find similar evidence of homosexual activity. Mr. Moyers’ memo to the FBI was in one of the files.”