[bobbyd]

the Dems are going to have a repeat of the ‘68 convention.

What happened?

_{I was Ten.}

[Berosus]

What happened in 1968? Well, by the time of the convention . . .

1. LBJ had dropped out of the race after losing the New Hampshire primary.
2. George Wallace had bolted the party to run as an independent, taking Southern conservatives with him.
3. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King had been assassinated
4. The convention passed over the liberals’ favorite, Eugene McCarthy, to nominate Vice-president Hubert Humphrey, who wanted to continue the war in Vietnam.
5. There was also a lot of rioting at the convention, if I remember correctly (I was 9 at the time, but I’m also a history major), to the point that the TV show “Laugh-In” joked, “Join the Army, see Chicago.” Mayor Daley didn’t help matters by saying, “The police are not here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder.” When it was over, and the voters found their choices to be Wallace, Humphrey and Richard Nixon, Nixon actually looked pretty good.

Larry Niven, the science fiction writer, said he learned two things as a result of the 1968 Democratic convention:

1. Never throw sh*t at an armed man.
2. Never stand next to someone throwing sh*t at an armed man.