[shrinkermd]

It is important not to forget: "He volunteered for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and served as a B-24 Liberator bomber pilot in the Fifteenth Air Force, flying 35 missions over enemy territory from bases in North Africa and later Italy, often against heavy anti-aircraft artillery. McGovern was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for saving his crew by crash landing his damaged bomber on a small Mediterranean island. McGovern's wartime service is at the center of Stephen E Ambrose's book The Wild Blue [2], which the author dedicated to McGovern's wife Eleanor"

His antiwar sentiments probably resulted from his religious convictions. He was a theological student and his faith plus his wartime experiences led him to become vociferously antiwar.

Understandable, but he was mistaken about Viet Nam. Most people who have met him, like him regardless of differing political views.

[Vigilanteman]

I can’t claim to have ever met McGovern personally. But I did meet Senator Burdick (neighboring North Dakota) when he was alive and Walter Mondale (former Minnesota Senator, then ambassador to Japan). Both men were quite likeable and pleasant. I could understand why anyone would warm up to them in small rural states and even vote for them, as long as they remained ignorant of what they actually did in Washington, D.C. I suppose McGovern is cut from the same cloth.

[Biblebelter]

I do not hate liberals and I do not hate George McGovern. He is not to be hated and he is not to be feared. He was of that WWII generation and his politics went to the left. He was not a criminal like either of the Clintons. He was not a traitor like Kerry who came back from war and turned on those he served by calling them criminals. He is not a drunken maniac who hates women and leaves at them bottom of ponds to die. And he is not Jimmy Carter who is as mean spirited a man to ever hold the Presidency. He is a very decent man who politics I do not agree with. Admittedly, the Democrats have not produced many liberals who are decent men, but McGovern fits that bill.

[Biblebelter]

I do not hate liberals and I do not hate George McGovern. He is not to be hated and he is not to be feared. He was of that WWII generation and his politics went to the left. He was not a criminal like either of the Clintons. He was not a traitor like Kerry who came back from war and turned on those he served by calling them criminals. He is not a drunken maniac who hates women and leaves at them bottom of ponds to die. And he is not Jimmy Carter who is as mean spirited a man to ever hold the Presidency. He is a very decent man who politics I do not agree with. Admittedly, the Democrats have not produced many liberals who are decent men, but McGovern fits that bill.