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ApolloSpeaks on Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:13:55 AM
First issue of Rolling Stone published 14 days after John McCain's tragedy in Vietnam
David Patraeus, the stalwart four star general who shocked us with a fainting spell while he was questioned by Vietnam hero John McCain on Barack Obama's pull out date from Afghanistan, is replacing Stanley McChrystal the man whose commandership of our forces there was ominously ruined by Rolling Stone-the 1960s counterculture antiwar mag (see ).
What augurs disaster ahead, of coming defeat and catastrophe for Obama and the Dems in Afghanistan, and a terrible setback for America and the West in the Global War on Terror, is that Rolling Stone's first published issue on November 9, 1967 came just 14 days after John McCain was tragically shot down over Vietnam and held prisoner for five brutal years*. The die is cast: The arrogant, incompetent, immature Obama, who like LBJ with Vietnam views the Afghan War as a troublesome distraction from his ruinous domestic agenda, is irreversibly on the road of becoming the new LBJ-and Afghanistan (and perhaps Iraq) the new Vietnam.
*McCain was shot down over Hanoi on October 26, 1967.
Below is an excerpt dealing with the Obama/LBJ analogy from my unpublished work: The Rise and Fall of Barack Obama: The End of New Deal/Great Society Liberalism and the Counterculture Sixties:
THE GHOST OF LBJ
It’s no mere accident of history or work of chance that America is now headed by the biggest spending Liberal Democrat since Lyndon Johnson; whose confidence in state power to build a Great Society (or More Perfect Union) of social justice and equality is equal to Johnson’s soaring ambitions and just as badly and destructively flawed.
But this is as it should be at this pivotal moment in history when the enemies of freedom are advancing abroad and America is asleep and in dangerous retreat. For Obama is national shock treatment; he’s the right man at the right time to lead this country into danger and rouse it from forgetfulness; the right man and sacrificial lamb to light the funeral pyre for the nihilistic Left, the reckless forces of anti-Americanism, deficit spending and government tyranny that sprung up in the 1960s midwifed by the murder of JFK and LBJ’s feckless leadership in the Vietnam War.
For it was no historical accident that John McCain followed his predecessor Barry Goldwater to defeat on Election Day. It was no accident that McCain, who was born in 1936 (the number 44 squared) was running for the 44th presidency and defeated 44 years after LBJ sent Goldwater back to the Senate. It was no accident that McCain chose a 44 year old running mate born in 1964 the year of Goldwater’s landslide defeat*.
*Sarah Palin was born February 11, 1964.
Nor was it accidental that LBJ was 68 days into his 56th year when he defeated Barry Goldwater; and that Obama beat McCain in the 56th presidential race in US history exactly 68 days from his acceptance speech in Denver-the first Democratic convention held in that city since 1908 the year of Johnson’s birth (see note 1).
Nor was it by chance that the Republican Party held its convention in the state of Minnesota: for this is the home of Walter Mondale who lost the presidential race in 1984 along with Geraldine Ferraro, his groundbreaking female running mate.
That meaningless chance was not at work in the last presidential race was unmistakably evident at the Democratic Convention. For it landed on the centennial birth of Lyndon Johnson the father of the Great Society disaster and the man who was losing the Vietnam War when John McCain lost his freedom while at combat over North Vietnam. Coming one day before August 28th when Obama delivered his acceptance speech the timing was perfect for a presidential hopeful who is a Great Society liberal guilt ridden over the failures of the 1960s and LBJ’s destructive welfare state; whose wife, like Sarah Palin, was born in 1964 when Johnson beat Goldwater*; and who in 1996 opposed the Welfare Reform Bill as being too hard on the poor**-a bill that was reluctantly signed into law by Bill Clinton who gave his convention speech on LBJ’s anniversary reminding us of his greatest achievement-and Obama’s obsolete and ruinous welfare views***.
*Michele Obama was born January 17, 1964 25 days before Sarah Palin
**Obama in his blind, reckless ideological stupidity wanted to continue LBJ’s disastrous War on Poverty which turned our inner cities into war zones and moral wastelands.
***Clinton gave his convention speech on August 27th, the 100th anniversary of LBJ’s birth. It was on the 27th that Obama made his first appearance at the convention.
History was made in 2008 and was meaningfully repeated in many extraordinary ways with the tragic ghost of LBJ hovering over Obama’s ill-starred victory signaling bad times ahead for our economy, foreign policy and the two wars abroad-and better days beyond with common sense and Conservatism triumphing in the end.
NOTES:
1. From August 27, 1964 when LBJ turned 56 to Election Day, November 3rd was 68 days.
From Obama’s convention speech on August 28, 2008 (one day after the LBJ centennial) to Election Day, November 4th was 68 days.
The number 68 is emblematic of the calamitous year 1968 when Johnson’s victory of four years earlier would turn to dust and he'd refuse to seek reelection.
Amazingly and perhaps providentially Obama’s acceptance speech on August 28th fell right smack in between the 100th anniversary of LBJ’s birth the day before, and John McCain’s 72nd birthday the day after, thus linking McCain‘s defeat to LBJ‘s victory over Goldwater. For as Obama’s speech was given on the 28th day of August McCain (born 1936 when LBJ was 28 years old) was in his 28th year when Johnson beat Goldwater-a numeric sign that a Higher Power was at work in this election*.
*Click here and see my "Barack Obama and the "Curse" of the Kennedys" for more insight into the number 28 and the uncanny role it played in Obama‘s election.
Could these "coincidences" and convergences meaningfully prefigure a failed one term presidency for Obama during a time of war and civil turmoil similar to Johnson’s four disastrous years in office? From the reckless path Obama is taking on domestic issues and foreign policy what is taking shape is a presidency far more calamitous than LBJ’s with the potential for a Conservative backlash just as great.