Posted on 11/09/2014 2:53:10 PM PST by Louis Foxwell
1968 was way crazier than today.
Massive war. Draft was going full-blast. Democrat standard-bearer gets assassinated in Los Angeles. Their President throws in the towel. Riots everywhere. Ever-present nuclear threat from the USSR. Kids running away from home and school to join communes. Campuses shut down. Sexual revolution showing up everywhere; in music, on TV, in movies, in books and magazines.
Crazy as today seems, it's small potatoes compared to back then.
Actually it was a second thought.
I was 2.
It’s nice to know things were worse.
Old Dems? what the H@!! is that, an Oxymoron? they are bankrupt, period. As William Bennett said, it was a mess of pottage to defend Bill Clinton on the Monica Mess, and now with all of the Obamagates and his Agenda it is Clinton on Steroids, his cohorts in the House and Senate who did not protest and went along with the agenda, now OWN IT as much as Obama does. The Smart ones, Frank, Dodd, Waxman etc etc, left before the defecate hit the rotary oscillator of which they also helped turn the switch on to max. What the H@!! it, doesn't matter to them, they still get their pension!
And we think we have internal squabbles between the EGOP and the Tea Party? That is a ant's fart in a wind storm compared to the millstone of all thing Obama and all those who want to remove it from their necks. They can't, they bought it hook, line, and sinker.
It will be fun, stand back and watch them destroy themselves, grab the snack food and beverage of your choice and let them. Don't try to fix them or diagnose them, just let them be. When your enemy is destroying themselves, do nothing...
They didn't seem "worse" to me at the time. I was 13 in 1968, and my big loves were (1) science and (2) music.
In science, we had the amazing accomplishments of the space program, as well as burgeoning computer technology and lots of other exciting things going on.
In music, we had the radio. The most amazing musical talents ever were available instantly to any kid with a transistor radio. Plus, wonderful music at my school (regular band and jazz band). To me, it seemed like an amazing show, with moon rockets for fireworks.
For my parents, and the parents of my friends, it was another story all together.
I know two people who had older brothers and sisters take off for who-knows-where, in one case out the bedroom window in the middle of the night.
My father was in Vietnam that year, and again in 1971-72.
Horowitz’s point was that what he calls “neo-Communists,” such as Tom Hayden, took over leadership of the Democrat party at that time. Obama is from the same red-diaper lineage.
Outside of Coumo i do’nt see who can take the nomination from her. Unless its another unknown and i don’t know that voters are going to go that way in primaries again.
I do think she’ll be a really weak candidate in the general.
Wow. I hope he made it back to you. The guys who went to VN got the short end of the stick in so many ways. I hope he's not bitter about it, though Heaven knows he has a right to be.
Horowitz’s point was that what he calls “neo-Communists,” such as Tom Hayden, took over leadership of the Democrat party at that time. Obama is from the same red-diaper lineage.
Of course, no disagreement there. Except look what their dance with reality has turned them into. Crazy old dingbats like Pelosi, bottom-feeder mouth-breathers like Reid and Schumer. Crooks like the Clintons. Nutcases like Alan Grayson.
Not quite what Tom Hayden and Bernardine Dohrn had in mind, I'm guessing. Not quite what Diana Oughton and Terry Robbins vaporized themselves for.
“Progressive” has long been a synonym for Commie.
Great piece of art. What’s it called? “Plantation Boss”
Elizabeth Warren is a name that keeps popping up
The hardcore lefties seem to love Elizabeth Warren. I wouldn’t be surprised if she takes down Hillary.
But the 1968 riots was the seed that grew into today’s RAT party.
It's long past time for the conservatives to start call things by their right name.
The Democrat party is a Socialist party and should be called that. Yet the right wingers continue to use democrat. -Tom
Puppet Clown.
Bo Jangles....
Great. So we’ve got a knock-down-drag-out fight between two sides of the same wooden nickel.
Yea...I checked it out... In the area called "Important Post" was an article called "Our Consensus Rulers"... I found it very interesting...profound.
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