I belong to that “Silent” generation before the boomers, a product of the birth dearth of the ‘30s, and was old enough and aware enough in 1948 to remember about the Progressives and Henry Wallace. It was therefore obvious to me in 1972 where George McGovern was coming from ideologically and to see that after Nixon’s Fall and the election of 1974 that the radicals had taken over the Democratic Party. But even as late of the ‘80s, people like Pelosi seemed like lunatics who could never, never rise to power. Guess what. They did, and Obama is no more than ONE of their progeny.