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.
Yes, thanks for asking. Dad had a nearly 30-year Navy career and is now 78 and in an Alzheimer's care facility. I'm going to visit him and Mom later this week. It was easier for him after the war than for many, I think, because he was a career officer: he joined in the late 1950s and retired in the mid-80s.
[...] Crazy old dingbats like Pelosi, bottom-feeder mouth-breathers like Reid and Schumer.
Daniel Greenfield seems to consider them a different "party" from the Hayden, Dohrn, Ayers, Obama, Jarrett, etc., group. Perhaps it would be more accurate to consider them some fossilized evolutionary offshoots ... ones who didn't have that certain je ne sais quoi that makes an ideological rock star, but more than made up for it with what they could steal.