Posted on 12/23/2008 12:25:58 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Few people come as quickly to the defense of George McGovern as McGovern himself. The antiwar senator from South Dakota lost to Richard Nixon in a landslide in the 1972 presidential election, only to see Nixon, caught up in the Watergate scandal, resign in disgrace. For McGovern, though—along with many Democrats who followed him—the damage was done, and the now retired politician has spent decades defending the electability of antiwar liberals, insisting his campaign was undone by dirty tricks and bad luck. In recent years, McGovern, 86, hasn't relinquished the spotlight, condemning the war in Iraq and declaring Barack Obama, whom he endorsed after initially supporting Hillary Clinton, a "second Abraham Lincoln."
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I don’t care what you say, Lincoln had nothing to do with Gutenberg Images. (;
Does that mean that he’ll be suspending the Constitution?
I see McGovern as a genuine war hero for his service as a pilot in World War II. After that, he must be seen as a complete fool.
No arguments there. I will never condemn McGovern for his service in a B-24 Liberator over Europe, McGovern is lucky to have come back alive at all, and I salute him for his wartime service.
As you say, his philosophy once he returned to the States took an abrupt left turn into radical pro-Communist philosophies and causes.
Triva: other ‘notables’ with B-24 experience in the War, Jimmy Stewart, Jack Palance, Lloyd Bentsen, Robert Altman, and of all people, Russell Johnson (played the ‘Professor’ on Gilligan’s Island).
Are you sure this guy is not smoking what he smoked in the sixties? Come to think of it...now his comments make perfect sense.
Anti-Christ would actually be better. At least this nonsensical world would be coming to an end.
If he’s the second Lincoln then I’ve got a second a$$hole.
Obama is not humble or honest in any way, shape or form.
Crazy old man.
Hundreds? How about naming, oh, seventy five of the ones he shut down?
[pushed a program] of de facto nationalization . . . ."
Actually that was Jefferson Davis, who seized control of business to an extent not seen until the Russian revolution.
Hot Rod Lincoln?
Authors Say Lincoln Was No. 1 Enemy of the Press by Geoffrey R. Stone
A review of Lincoln's Wrath By Jeffrey Manber and Neil Dahlstrom.
Some say he did and some say he did not. I say he did. To say otherwise IMO is like saying Obama and the Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) oppose the "Fairness Doctrine."
He did order the military shutdown some newspapers.
Some say that Lincoln did not stop attacks on others thus giving tacit approval of at least a temporary shutdown. IMO they are correct.
Thanks for the information about Jefferson Davis. However I do not believe that Lincoln did not "nationalize" to some extent some aspects of the economy.
Well then if over 300 newspapers were shut down it shouldn't be hard to name fifty or sixty of them. Have at it.
Cute.
Well isn’t it a reasonable question? Three hundred newspapers shut down. That’s a huge number by anyone’s standards. Surely there is somewhere that has a list of them and I’m assuming you would have seen it. After all you accept the figure as correct. Surely you checked?
IMO the historians who say Lincoln did curtail the press to the extent described above are correct.
If further research by competent historians prove them wrong then I'll of course change my opinion. Until then I trust the former.
They make more sense. There was a civil war in progress. It makes sense to me that the Lincoln Administration would not cotton anti-Administration rabble-rousers of any kind.
My original post was to express the opinion that I do not want Obama to be "another Lincoln." As the civil war raged Lincoln had powers that I do not want Obama and the Obamamobs to have.
God I hope so.
How many dead this time?
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