Agree. Sometimes I wonder if Jimmy Carter would have ended up a better person if he had never been elected POTUS. Dem POTUSes certainly don't have any shortage of evil "helpers" whispering in their ears.
McGovern would have been a horrible POTUS, but he had a few principles. I just don't see those principles in Obama.
Carter’s damage would have been avoided by him not being POTUS. He still would have been an idiot, but his influence would have been severely limited. We have the left to thank for that not being the case.
In this, I think is the key to McGovern’s impact. If he had been president, his influence would not have been limited as it was. Even as a Senator, he wasn’t able to impact the nation as negatively as he would have been able to as POTUS.
As for Obama, I think we all make a mistake when we think he has no principles. He is being very loyal to ‘his’ set of principles. It’s just that his loyalties are focused outside our system of governance, outside our nation, outside our set of principles.