Yeah? What about this guy? He still makes me laugh.
Posted on 10/07/2006 4:46:22 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
McGovern Library dedicated in S.D.
By CHET BROKAW, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 30 minutes ago
George McGovern may have lost the 1972 presidential election, but he inspired many others to work for justice, decency and a better life for poor people around the world, former President Bill Clinton said Saturday at a ceremony to dedicate a library in McGovern's honor.
"I believe no other presidential candidate ever has had such an enduring impact in defeat," said Clinton, who directed McGovern's presidential campaign in Texas. "Senator, the fires you lit then still burn in countless hearts."
Clinton was the keynote speaker at the official dedication of a library and study center honoring the legacy of the former Democratic senator and his wife, Eleanor. Several thousand people, including McGovern; both South Dakota senators, John Thune and Tim Johnson; and former Sen. Tom Daschle gathered at Dakota Wesleyan University.
McGovern, 84, was remembered not only as an anti-Vietnam war candidate who lost by a landslide to President Nixon, but also as a three-term U.S. senator, war hero and tireless worker for programs aimed at ending world hunger.
McGovern, a three-term senator who was defeated in a 1980 re-election bid, said he is pleased the library was built, but is sad that his wife of nearly 63 years had to stay behind at their Montana cabin and miss the event. The two met at Dakota Wesleyan when both were students.
"She's critically ill, and as the old song goes, she's in the hands of the Almighty at this time," McGovern said.
McGovern said he intends to continue his work to provide food to needy children around the world.
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"a good nutritional lunch every day," McGovern said.".....mindless, a lunch program.
""I believe no other presidential candidate ever has had such an enduring impact in defeat," said Clinton..."
Loving a lowlife, liberal loser, is a liberal-demokkkRAT's wet dream.
Klintoon is living proof of that.
Does he ever think before he opens his mouth??
Loser.....
Algore is doing his part, remember him Willy?
I have respect for McGovern because he served in WWII honorably. War will do that to some people, turn them into proponents for peace (albeit misguidedly).
Well, at the dedication of a library named in his honor, the keynote speaker could hardly have given the CORRECT speech:
"I believe no other presidential candidate ever has embarrassed his party as badly as you did. EX-Senator, the damage you did by suffering the worst defeat in American history still taints the Democrats to this day. It took Watergate, the concerted efforts of the Washington Post, and Richard Nixon's own megalomania to get one of ours into the Oval Office. And what was the result? Jimmy Carter. Arguably the worst president in the last half a century. When we lost the White House again in 1980, we wouldn't regain it for a generation. And it all comes back to you. Please die, with the parting knowledge that we'll try our best to salvage your legacy by pretending you were something other than the very definition of 'loser.'"
Fairly stupid statement for Clinton to make. He could do better. McGovern was hardly heard from after that rout. There was no legacy.
I'm putting my faith in Hillary. If anyone can do it, she can.
well said.
Legacy George McGovern effected major changes in Democratic party rules that continue to this day, such as the requirements of diversity of the delegates to the party's nominating convention. He remains a symbol of the political left during the turbulent 1960s and early 1970s when the country was torn by U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and the corruption and abuse of power of the Nixon administration. McGovern recognized the mixed results of his 1972 candidacy, saying, "I opened the doors of the Democratic Party and 20 million people walked out."[4]. McGovern's campaign also represented the last time a mostly grass roots candidacy was able to wrest control of either party's presidential nomination against the perceived will of a party's leadership - with perhaps the only recent parallel of national note being Ned Lamont's defeat of Joseph Lieberman in the 2006 Connecticut Senate Democratic Primary.
I truly belive that if George McGovern would have won in 1972, today there would still be a Soviet Union, and the U.S. would be one of it's satellites.
Unfortunately, she has to throw her hat in the ring before she can be defeated.
That Clinton is really good at telling whoppers.
Whatsort of appropriate library? An dilapidated open pit outhouse with copies of Das Kapital inside.
Yeah? What about this guy? He still makes me laugh.
McGovern, is that guy still around??? I heard him speak several years before his prez run when I was a high school senior in Sioux Falls SD. He was our senator and we had to sit and listen respectfully. He was so incredibly boring that he could put an insomniac into a catatonic coma within 2-3 minutes. He said nothing that was of any use to anyone.
"I believe no other presidential candidate ever has had such an enduring impact in defeat,"...
He forgets Jimmy Carter, who was not only our worst president but is our worst ex-president, who goes to places like Venezuela to speak ill of the way elections are run in his own country, and who has the bad taste to go abroad and trash the present administration.
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