Posted on 06/07/2008 10:08:42 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Is Barack Obama the next George McGovern? The question has been posed apprehensively by Democrats and gleefully by Republicans. McGovern, the antiVietnam war candidate, ran for president against Richard Nixon in 1972 and lost 49 states out of 50, a landslide defeat that still haunts his party.
“Obama is the fullest flowering of liberal orthodoxy since George McGovern,” conservative columnist Rich Lowry wrote last week. Harold Ickes, a Hillary Clinton adviser, dropped thinly veiled comparisons between Obama and McGovern while trying to keep his candidate’s campaign alive.
So is it true? The former candidate, 85, can speak for himself. It is no insult to be described as a “George McGovern liberal”, he said. “They’re the best kind.”
But he added: “I don’t think Obama is all that radical. I find him a pretty moderate liberal. From the very beginning, he’s been going after Republican and independent voters and that’s what we need to do.”
McGovern, a decorated second world war pilot, was defined by opponents as the candidate of “amnesty, abortion and acid”. Republicans are looking for a similarly pithy formula to define Obama as an antipatriotic appeaser. The controversy over Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s former pastor, was heaven-sent in that regard.
McGovern compares Obama to Abraham Lincoln, the president who abolished slavery. “But Lincoln seldom went to church even though he was always quoting the Almighty. Perhaps he didn’t want to be blamed for the words of his pastor,” McGovern noted wryly.
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How appropriate in the background: “BDS”...
You’re right!
Obama probably needn’t worry. His opponent has a liberal problem of his own.
He’s the Manchurian marxist candidate. How long can he keep up the empty suit platitudes before people start asking questions.
We know the media won’t.
I don’t think Obama is a liberal. He’s a Marxist.
Oh no no it’s worse, he’s Jimmy Carter 2.0 1980!
Obama is far more liberal than McGovern ever was.
There has never been a presidential candidate who was anywhere near as hard line left wing as Obama is.
The guy is just plain scary.
Of course McGovern will do lie through his teeth and deny it in at attempt to fool the public and get Obama elected. But facts are facts.
No.
George McGovern wasn't racist.
What the hell is a "moderate liberal?"
The Terrorist Loving Magic Negro has the most liberal voting record of any senator... ever.
I know the polls show a tight race now. But I have a feeling that Obama can only go downhill as the general election campaign gets going. It may not be a McGovern style landslide, but McCain has a chance for a solid victory.
The thought of having another crook in the White House(Clinton being the other) drives me to vote for McCain.
wait....whaaa?....huh? (extreme RINO's maybe)
Yes. (Be prepared.)
Obama - Wright, wrong and racketeering
The candidate of terrorists, tyrants, and taxes.
McGovern compares Obama favorably with Lincoln. No, not George Lincoln Rockwell, the American Nazi, or Lincoln Hayes, the character played by Clarence Williams on the old Mod Squad series. ABRAHAM Lincoln, generally regarded as one of the greatest U.S. presidents in history.
Which just shows what a complete nutcake McGovern is.
Then there's the fact that most conservatives despise McCain. And then there's Bob Barr...
The scenario is nothing like 1972.
Who’s that with McGovern? Noel Redding?
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