Learning from George McGovern and Earl Browder (Browder was head of CP-USA)

Canada Free Press ^ | 4-11-07 | Andrew Walden,

[dynachrome]

It would be pleasing to write about an anti-American war Senator who finally saw the light. But McGovern was not actually flip-flopping. He was consistently representing the interests of what he described in an August 25, 1978 speech on the Senate floor as, “Ho Chi Minh’s popularly-based revolution for independence in Vietnam.”

[dynachrome]

I learned something new about Mcgovern from this article: "The CPUSA endorsed Progressive Party presidential candidate Henry A. Wallace and communists were thick in the ranks and leadership of the campaign which garnered only 3% of the vote. McGovern was elected delegate to the Progressives’ first national convention."

[sageb1]

That’s riiiiiggghht. Not something our kids will learn in publik skool.

[dynachrome]

The sad part is that to be honest, I voted for Mcgovern in 1972. The next time I voted, was for Reagan in 1980. A slight change in mental outlook had occurred.

[sageb1]

So did I. My first vote. Typical teenaged protest against whatever my parents told me. I’ve forgiven myself.

[dynachrome]

“My first vote”
Means you are as old and decrepit as dynachrome!

[sageb1]

lol! I’m a Sagittarius. We don’t age.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

A salute to McGovern for his W.W.II service — and a reminder that W.W.II was the last time that the left supported the U.S. in war. (Hint: the U.S. was helping defend their Uncle Joe Stalin.)

[Intolerant in NJ]

“Ho Chi Minh’s popularly-based revolution for independence in Vietnam.” ...only because Uncle Ho assasinated any would-be leader who disagreed with him and executed thousands of his own countrymen who didn't fit into his plan for how the country should be run......

[piasa]

Earl Browder is the father of William Browder of Hermitage Capital, which invested in Russia.
William Browder’s lawyer was Sergei Magnitsky; Magnitsky died in a Russian jail, and our politicians then imposed sanctions on Russia over the circumstances...by passing the Global Magnitsky Act, etc.