Mary Landrieu Quotes
This is your last campaign.
Mary Landrieu, U. S. Senator (Democrat, LA), Public statement to her opponent who had engaged in a very vicious, negative attack on Landrieu, 2002
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He was one of the very few American politicians who could truthfully make that statement.
Ventura was one of the very few people in modern American political history to enter politics as a novice and run for the Governorship of a major state against the established political figures nominated by the two main parties and beating them both. He was an excellent governor, but did not run for a second term and left politics as a candidate. However his political views were very popular with many independents throughout the country and h remained an influential person.
At the time political parties and some candidates had their own newspapers and attacked their opponents through those rather than directly themselves which would have been seen as gross and undignified, Slander and attacks have been a part of American politics since its inception. The degree and extent reached its pinnacle in the early 21st century.
The implication is that in a political race, it is only the horses ass that runs.
They had just attended a meeting which included the Kennedy appointee as Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara,1916-2009; LBJ remarked that McNamara was clearly the smartest person in the room.
Many politicians in that day would campaign from large carts drawn by oxen – a predecessor to the bandwagon of sorts. She was 1 of the 4 women who entered Oberlin College in 1837 thus becoming the first co-educational institution of higher education in the United States.
Electioneering had reached the point that there was almost no rationality left in the major elections in America. Appeals to emotions and hatreds, attacks on personality, scare tactics, lies, and false promises where characteristic of almost all candidates’ campaigns.
More so than any other presidential candidate in history, Trump repeatedly told outright lies and exaggerated most of what had a grain of truth. However, he tended not to see this as lying, and not to be embarrassed when caught by fact checkers, journalists or other candidates. His response was almost always to point out how much public support he had, how many people attended the speech where he made the statement, how well he was doing in the polls. He had a hard core group of supports who did not seem to be concerned with this behavior, and it was difficult for opponents or even journalists to argue that those supports were ignorant, foolish or in error as explained in this quotation.
Mary Loretta Landrieu is an American politician, entrepreneur, and former Senator for the state of Louisiana. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
