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For only the third time in its 159 year history, The Atlantic (a great magazine, btw) has been moved to make a political endorsement, Hillary Clinton for President of the United States.
The other two were Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and Lyndon Johnson, 53 years ago, in 1964.
Of Lincoln they wrote, “It is in a moral aversion to slavery as a great wrong that the chief strength of the Republican party lies.”
Of Lyndon Johnson they wrote that he would bring, " to the vexed problem of civil rights a power of conciliation which will prevent us from stumbling down the road taken by South Africa.”
But what also moved them to endorse Johnson in 1964 was their deep distrust and dislike of Goldwater's positions:
“His proposal to let field commanders have their choice of the smaller nuclear weapons would rupture a fundamental belief that has existed from Abraham Lincoln to today: the belief that in times of crisis the civilian authority must have control over the military.” And the magazine noted that Goldwater’s “preference to let states like Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia enforce civil rights within their own borders has attracted the allegiance of Governor George Wallace, the Ku Klux Klan, and the John Birchers.”
They went on to say:
Today they have endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton:
And had this to say about The Donald:
And, finally:
Hear, hear, good sirs! In defense of our American democracy, I, too, will be voting for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The other two were Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and Lyndon Johnson, 53 years ago, in 1964.
Of Lincoln they wrote, “It is in a moral aversion to slavery as a great wrong that the chief strength of the Republican party lies.”
Of Lyndon Johnson they wrote that he would bring, " to the vexed problem of civil rights a power of conciliation which will prevent us from stumbling down the road taken by South Africa.”
But what also moved them to endorse Johnson in 1964 was their deep distrust and dislike of Goldwater's positions:
“His proposal to let field commanders have their choice of the smaller nuclear weapons would rupture a fundamental belief that has existed from Abraham Lincoln to today: the belief that in times of crisis the civilian authority must have control over the military.” And the magazine noted that Goldwater’s “preference to let states like Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia enforce civil rights within their own borders has attracted the allegiance of Governor George Wallace, the Ku Klux Klan, and the John Birchers.”
They went on to say:
Today they have endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton:
And had this to say about The Donald:
And, finally:
Hear, hear, good sirs! In defense of our American democracy, I, too, will be voting for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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