Dean Tries to Summon Spirit of the 1960s

Washington Post ^ | December 28, 2003 | Paul Farhi

[navygal]

Dean must be trippin.

[Tijeras_Slim]

"We felt the possibilities were unlimited then,"

Well, Jimmy Carter fixed all that in the 70's.

[woofie]

Well, Jimmy Carter fixed all that in the 70's.

I thought we just ran out of the really good dope

[gcruse]

I'd say the Spirit of the Sixties is already here.

'Mean for Dean' is a distinct echo of 'Clean for Gene.'

Vice-president Hubert H. Humphrey had been campaigning for delegates in non-primary states and won the nomination at a combative Democratic National Convention taking place in Chicago on August 26-29, 1968. Some three-thousand anti-war demonstrators stood outside the convention hall. Here, McCarthy was beaten by Humphrey. That same day, the delegates to the Democratic convention voted down a Vietnam peace plan by a 1500-1000 vote.(From Woodstock to Watergate, 47)
        The response to the rejected Vietnam peace plan was horrific. The three-thousand anti-war demonstrators, along with an equal amount of police and Illinois National Guardsmen fought a bloody, free-for-all battle that lasted all night. The police and Guardsmen also lead an assault in downtown Chicago on the headquarters of the Democratic National Convention. There were mass arrests and three-hundred injured as the police clubbed the defenseless demonstrators. Later, on Election Day, Hubert Humphrey lost the Presidential election to Richard Nixon.(From Watergate to Woodstock, 60-64) 

[Tijeras_Slim]

Whaaaa?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Dirty, smelly ping!

[horse_doc]

We were making such enormous progress.

And then the Lefty Boomers took over, and their generation has been dragging America down ever since.

I get so tired of culturally cleaning up after these guys, and I can't wait for a Dean candidacy.

The election will be much closer than anyone here will want to believe, but at least we will finally have a chance to drive a stake into the heart of Woodstock, once and for all.

[woofie]

Whaaaa?



Its a joke.....

[Tijeras_Slim]

Whaaaa? < /stoner voice>

(I was trying to be funny too... Let's not quit our day jobs.) :)

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

No, he didn't want to confont the vietcong either.

[okie01]

Adds Kazin, "Every political faith has a golden age. Conservatives like the 1980s, when we won the Cold War and America stood tall again. If you're liberal, you remember the '60s the way Dean is doing now."

Conservatives can celebrate a decade of real accomplishment.

Liberals celebrate a decade of violence, disunity and surrender.

Go, Howie, GO!

[Helms]

Dean Tries to Summon Spirit of the 1960s

More like the spirit of Nov. Dec. and Jan. of 2000-01 and during which they were deprived of the prize.

[Helms]

[Scenic Sounds]

Hey, I remember that!! LOL. ;-)

[Scenic Sounds]

Translation: all the dips••t hippies who smoked pot, protested the war and rolled around in the mud and excrement at Woodstock in a rabid, hedonist orgy with all their dirty, smelly, long-haired, maggot-infested freak friends.

I am sooooooooooo glad I wasn't born until 1970. I'm just sorry my dear, sweet parents had to live through that crappy nightmare of a decade, the '60s.

ROFL!

You didn't miss a thing, Tony!! ;-)

[gcruse]

Dear Tony,

It was a gas.

Love,

 [The dad of another  33 year-old.]

[mindspy]

And then the Lefty Boomers took over, and their generation has been dragging America down ever since. I too loathe the boomers. I grew up at the tail end of the privileged ones and it seems I have wade through the knee deep, sometimes shoulder deep, manure left by these jackasses.

[the invisib1e hand]

Dean Tries to Summon Spirit of the 1960s

This was the Clintons' schtick. Been there, done that (twice) and it only gets worse. I think we're all over that, Ho'.