Posted on 01/06/2008 10:37:13 AM PST by melt
(CBS) The former Democratic nominee for president who ran against a president later driven from office under threat of impeachment, today said that impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is "the rightful course for an American patriot."
George McGovern, a former South Dakota Senator who ran on the Democratic ticket in 1972 as an anti-war advocate, wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post that, while he steered clear of calling for the impeachment of Richard Nixon in the '70s - fearing it would appear as "an expression of personal vengeance" against his opponent who won re-election in a landslide - McGovern said after seven years of the current administration, he has "belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment" of the president and the vice president.
McGovern also called the case for impeaching Mr. Bush and Cheney "far stronger" than what was the case against President Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew after the 1972 election.
McGovern admits that while there is little bipartisan support for instituting impeachment hearings (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, has announced that impeachment is "off the table"), he said, "Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses.
"They have repeatedly violated the Constitution.
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now I REALLY feel old! thanks ; )
He’s compensating for his sins as an unconscientious bomber pilot in WWII.
McWHO??????
Go back to your old folks home and drool there George.
This clown was an idiot 40 years ago and time has not done him any good.
This is to take the spotlight off Hillary’s sliding poll numbers.
Check her phone records.I bet she called him.
“Hes compensating for his sins as an unconscientious bomber pilot in WWII.”
Actually George McGovern was an excellent bomber pilot during WWII. He flew 35 combat missions over Europe as the pilot of a B-24 Liberator bomber, and certainly earned his Distinguished Flying Cross and Silver Star for gallantry in action against the NAZIs.
George McGovern is currently a foolish and misguided old man, but as a young man he was a hero who did his duty to help keep America free.
I think that it was his daughetr who was forced by her parents to have an abortion at 15 and later in life was found dead of alcohol abuse in a snow drift.Very sad story.
i think he may be related some how to valta krankcase both of em are legends in their own minds....
But,,,but,,,but,,,,
that was when he was really young, innocent and naive (almost 30),,,,
after he worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign,,,,,
and way, way before he supported the far-left, socialist, big government Marxist, Mario Cuomo over the Republican candidate (largely because the Republican wanted to cut taxes too much).
.........georgie ....an important voice in today’s political milieu.....
he’s his own milieu....
arrrrrrghhhh
Probably not...I don't think anybody did.
Rudy (the liberal) Giuliani did!!!!
Impeach McGovern for stupidity...
Why is someone whose pitiful leftist ideology was roundly TROUNCED in a Presidential election think anyone gives a rat’s ass as to what he thinks about anything?
I thought he was dead?
Sure, George. Impeach Bush and Cheney, place Pelosi in the White House and then hold an election. See what happens. Idiot.
I refer sarcastically to the “conscience of a bomber pilot” that was prevalent during the late sixties in which WWII bomber pilots were scorned for their unconscience actions, not knowing if their bombs were killing innocent civilians or not and which led to “Catch 22” and other tomes on such warfare.
I think he should continue advising the democrat party.
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