Posted on 01/06/2008 4:41:06 PM PST by jdm
WASHINGTON (CNN) – George McGovern, the Democratic Party's 1972 nominee for president, is calling on Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
And in an editorial in Sunday's Washington Post, McGovern writes the case for impeaching the current president is "far stronger" than the case made against former President Richard Nixon — the man who soundly defeated McGovern in the general election match up.
"Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses," McGovern writes. "They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time.
"Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world," he continued.
McGovern, a former three-term senator who ran for president on a fiercely anti-war platform, also called the administration's policy in Iraq a "a murderous, illegal, nonsensical war" in violation of international law.
"This reckless disregard for life and property, as well as constitutional law, has been accompanied by the abuse of prisoners, including systematic torture, in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949," he added.
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Er, George, nobody cares what you think. Sorry.
Good luck with all that, Mr McGovern (loser).
Oooh....He’s in my dead-pool....
Someone needs to tell the sadly aging McGovern that his day has passed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5pkkAhETYg
So much for the belief that with age comes wisdom. Evidently, once a fool, always a fool.
I’ll never forget the night of the election when George McG was running.
I was a sweet, pretty liberal gal at the time. I was sooooo convinced that McGovern was going to win, that the country would rise as one loving liberal group and elect this man who would unite the planet as one.
I’m perfectly serious.
I got so depressed that he only won one state. I could not believe my lying eyes. I was so convinced....
True story. I’m not proud of it, but true.
Heh.
But,,,but,,,but,,,, that was a long time ago,,,,when he was really young, innocent and naive (almost 30),,,,
after he worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign,,,,,
and way, way before he supported the far-left, socialist, big government Marxist, Mario Cuomo over the Republican candidate Pataki (largely because the Republican wanted to cut taxes too much).
This is from a red SOB who abandoned the peoples of SE Asia to a Communist genocide and slavery. He got his start in admiring communism when he landed his bomber on a Tito-Partisan controlled island in the Adriatic during WW2.
He also wrote a thesis in college after the war which praised Stalin. If anyone has a copy, print it here at FR.
McGovern supported several communist united fronts on Vietnam from the various Mobes to PCPJ and NPAC.
He also sponsored amendments to the Walter-McCarren Act which made it easier for communists and terrorists supporters to get into the US by eliminating key sections of this act which prevented this.
The man is and was and always will be a perfect red dupe and stooge.
He should have been tried for treason a long time ago, and hung for his role in promoting communist genocide in Cambodia. Remember, it was the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment that helped stop the US from giving aid to our allies in Indochina during the war.
May he rot in hell, even when he is still alive!
He is still alive?
Outofstyle: Time to embalm McGovern
Many threads on this.
The question is why? Why impeach anyone now? It’s too late.
“still bitter after all these years”
Hey, Georgie, exactly how many states embraced your candidacy?
My thoughts on this would get me banned.
Rudy didn’t seem to share your thoughts!
“This reckless disregard for life “
Says one of the leaders of a political party largely responsible for the deaths of 49 million unborn babies.
When exactly was his day, anyway? LOL
Hey George, I thought you had died! Anyhow, you were and still are irrelevant just like your clone Jimmah Cahtar!
Reference post #9:
AMEN and AMEN!
And how many states did this genius carry?
Oh geez!
I’m a native South Dakotan, dyed in the wool, broken glass Republican.
McGovern’s been my nightmare since I was a little babe. Go away already!
Bush? I would guess he’d want to impeach Nixon.
McGovern? Isn’t he dead? I thought that was who Jimmy Carter had been channeling recently.
Unfortunately he lives in my State of Montana: One summer it looked like a forest fire was going to take his home out which would have been good news but bad news, the fire was extinguished before it could get the job done.
s’okay Fish. We were all young once
mrs
George is obviously suffering from Gore envy.
—more on the subject of George—(McGovern, that is)
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I can’t help comparing Carter and McGovern to the two old men in the balcony on ‘The Muppet Show’.
Don’t know what Rudy said about McGovern, and if he said something polite or nice, that’s politics. I was in Saigon when McGovern loss a key vote and all the Americans with me cheered. The So. Vietnamese asked what we were cheering about and I said, “You top enemy just lost”.
They got the point.
McGovern has always been anti-American. Just check his record, but as a reporter who covered the Hill and internal security/national defense issues for decades, I found McGovern to be one of the “reddest” of the Democrat-Left.
Besides that, he is stupid as a cow turd. I have more respect for Gene McCarthy than McGovern. At least McCarthy was an airhead but not anti-American, pro-Communist airhead.
McGovern ranks with the worst of the Democrats on national defense/internal security, and I’ve seen or met most of these bastards while I was on the Hill.
The only credit I will give McGovern, without any hesitation, is that he was very brave during his WW2 service as a B-24 pilot/bombardier. However, his contact with Tito’s Partisans and the glowing reviews he give about them in his debriefing showed that he bought the Tito communist line, hook, line and sinker. And he never left that leftist mindset.
Its been my tagline since the 06 election.
Its coming; they just can’t help themselves. They have nothing to sell to the voters.
Hey McGovern. You know those “Super Delegates” your party has? You’re the reason why, Bubba. They don’t want another loser to sneak into the nomination.
Shove off, george.
Do ya think the ‘Rats can get ‘ol George to dotter up to the podium at the Convention, and make a speech like this??
Gawd! I hope so!!
Isn’t this the first major candidate to loose all 50 states (49 to Reagan and his attempted comeback in MN)?
George McGovern is alive?
Me, too.
Amazing what these has-been, loser politicians will do to gain a little attention. George, nobody cares what you think, not even your ‘rat buddies.
How about we deport McGovern?
McGovern made today's leftists, pacifists, and capitulators look like amateurs compared to the 'aid and comfort' and encouragement that he gave our enemies.
And yet Rudy voted for him. Amazing.
What offenses? Please, someone calling for the impeachment please demonstrate where the POTUS or VP have committed impeachable offenses.
Now, Mr. McGovern and your fellow demonrats, if you would like to discuss the clearly treasonous offenses you have committed...
In McGovern's case, it would be a forced exile.
This absolutely should be a question in one of the upcoming Democratic debates. “Senator, many prominent Democrats, including a former Presidential candidate believe President Bush should be impeached. What is your view?”. Ahhhh, never happen, but it would nice to hear their stupid answers.
...and Romney voted for Tsongas which was not such a long time ago ('92)
I’m truely surprised that that old idiot is still alive.
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