Posted on 02/25/2008 12:39:28 PM PST by mdittmar
To quote Johnny Cash: “I hear that train a-comin’”
That certainly makes sense for the time, but did he by any chance go dem in his last few years, when he was randomly attaching himself to leftish causes and agitating against the war in Viet Nam?
It wouldn't be a news article unless it said it was Bush's fault first and foremost. He's also responsible for economic troubles in Russia, global warming, the lack of trouts spawning properly and my rotten cup of coffee with breakfast this morning.
Wonder how many years after he leaves office they can keep this shtick running?
Too bad there isn’t a conservative in the race.
Dems fear a train wreck? They caused the last two.
I need a history refresher. The approved version of Chicago 68’ has then Mayor Daley Sr.’s jackbooted fuzz belaboring the hippie protestors who were unleashing a incoherent, generalized rage against the establishment. Was there some serious dem-on-dem violence going on there as well?
The hypocracy of the democrat party always amazes me.
There are about 20 million people who voted for democrats in the primaries. Their votes pick 80% of the delegates. OTOH, a mere 800 chosen superdelegate democrats (mostly middle-aged white males) will have 20% of the vote.
Do the math: that means each of the superdelegates vote will count 6,250 times as much as anyone else’s.
Voters are thus disenfranchised because their vote is significantly diluted.
This is a system that invites abuse. If a candidate chooses to spend $10 per voter, they should accordingly spend $62,500 on each superdelegate. One gets a couple of signs on their front lawn, the other gets use of Steven Jobs vacation home in the Bahamas for the summer for him and his family.
Yes, the antics in the Int’l Ampitheater were a spectacle as well. Eugene McCarthy ran as an anti-war candidate against Humphrey. Robert Kennedy had been assassinated just a few months before, and by hook and crook most of the Kennedy delegates ended up going to Humphrey. Needless to say, the lefty McCarthy delegates were not pleased at Humphrey getting the nomination.
I read the article you linked and I’m still not convinced.Every one of King’s followers-Abernathy,Jackson,Bond,Lewis,etc became hardcore liberal Democrats.Its almost impossible for me to think Dr. King would not have followed the same political path as his wife,Coretta,and staying very very close to the liberal plantation.
But growing smaller by the day. Clinton's performance next week will probably not be enough to derail the Obama express.
Ping; for fun!
If Hillery pulls the back-room-deal to gain the nomination in spite of BA having a majority of the primary votes, his supporters are not likely to go quietly.
Look at the demographics of Hill’s vs BA’s supporters. Which group could you envision “taking it to the streets”?
I have seen the genie let out of the bottle before, and it can happen again. Once the violence gets uncorked, it takes on a life of its own.
Bush did NOT steal the 2000 election! Democrats, however, tried to steal that election in every way possible, from hanging chads to endless court cases. It might be interesting to note that democrats lost every single case throughout the state of Florida, except, of course, for the silly ruling of the Florida supreme court, little more than an a panel of liberal stooges.
Will your increased poll showing for Nader support lead to more Democrats voting for Nader because they can’t stand the two “Democratic” options?
I certainly hope so. Also it will make the Dems campaign more to the left, thus making them less attractive to centrists.
B.J. Clinton had better be sending H. Ross “Giant Sucking Sound” Perot a ‘thank-you’ card every single day of his life for allowing Clinton to take the 1992 elections with 43% of the popular vote.
Anything that Nader may or may not have done for Bush is nothing compared to what Perot did for Clinton.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/18/AR2006101801754.html
“In 1960, King was arrested for trespassing during a sit-in and held in Georgia’s Reidsville prison. Fearing for his son’s life, Martin Luther King Sr. appealed to presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to secure his release.
When King was freed, his father vowed to deliver 10 million votes to the Democrat, even though Kennedy was only a reluctant supporter of civil rights. That began four decades of black people voting for liberals.
The younger King voted for Kennedy, and for Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson four years later. In that election, King publicly denounced the Republican candidate, Barry Goldwater.”
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