Posted on 05/02/2008 7:28:45 PM PDT by neverdem
See, Fred? How could the Demwits *not* nominate Obama?
During the 1984 campaign, the occasionally humorous Mark Russell ( http://www.markrussell.net/ ) said, regarding Ferraro’s VP nomination, “that’ll hold ‘em four more years.”
Obama has been tapped to play 1972’s George McGovern (or, if you will, Robert Redford’s character in “The Candidate”, if he happens to win in November).
Come to think of it, a party-line liberal college buddy said (of Mondale after the 1984 defeat) that the reason for his nomination was to make way for a new generation (that turned out well, eh? Clinton for eight years). Some say that’s the reason for Dole’s nomination in 1996 — to move him off into retirement.
Some probably say that of McCain in 2008...
I think I'm out of lightbulbs.
That does seem to happen a lot...
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