<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:50 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></p></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>John are you old enough to remember this ad?  It was the one which established the long-running advertising wisdom: sex sells, but death sells better:<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=dDTBnsqxZ3k</a></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It worked. </span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​<font size="4">Yes ​I'm afraid I am old enough to remember that ad, and yes it worked and I'm very glad it did. Some say the ad was unfair but I don't think so at all, it never even mentioned Goldwater, it just reminded people that in the nuclear age the President has infinite powers to screw things up, and I think it's very very important to remind people of that from time to time. </font></div><font size="4"> </font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>The world was saved from Barry Goldwater.  <p></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​Yes the human race dodged a bullet in 1964 and that species of bipeds dodged a bullet in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crises, I hope they can do it again in 2016. </div>Until George W Bush came along I used to tell people<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>that Lyndon Johnson was the worst President in my lifetime, and I still think he was pretty damn bad. When that ad came out I was too young to vote but if I could have I would have voted for Johnson, and if I knew then what I know now I would have still voted for<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>Lyndon Johnson<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>because there is a<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​n​</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​important ​</div>difference between bad, very bad, hyper bad<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​,​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ and apocalyptically bad.  ​</div></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:18.6667px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>We got the Vietnam war instead.</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​<font size="4">Yes but there are worse things. Goldwater wanted to use nuclear weapons to "​<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">defoliate" Vietnam. There is no bottom to bad.</span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></span></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><br></d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