Published in the April 21, 2003 issue of The Nation The Reason Why by George McGovern Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson " The Charge of the Light Brigade" (in the Crimean War) Thanks to the most crudely partisan decision in the history of the Supreme Court, the nation has been given a President of painfully limited wisdom and compassion and lacking any sense of the nation's true greatness. Appearing to enjoy his role as Commander in Chief of the armed forces above all other functions of his office, and unchecked by a seemingly timid Congress, a compliant Supreme Court, a largely subservient press and a corrupt corporate plutocracy, George W. Bush has set the nation on a course for one-man rule. He treads carelessly on the Bill of Rights, the United Nations and international law while creating a costly but largely useless new federal bureaucracy loosely called "Homeland Security." Meanwhile, such fundamental building blocks of national security as full employment and a strong labor movement are of no concern. The nearly $1.5 trillion tax giveaway, largely for the further enrichment of those already rich, will have to be made up by cutting government services and shifting a larger share of the tax burden to workers and the elderly. This President and his advisers know well how to get us involved in imperial crusades abroad while pillaging the ordinary American at home. The same families who are exploited by a rich man's government find their sons and daughters being called to war, as they were in Vietnam--but not the sons of the rich and well connected. (Let me note that the son of South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson is now on duty in the Persian Gulf. He did not use his obvious political connections to avoid military service, nor did his father seek exemptions for his son. That goes well with me, with my fellow South Dakotans and with every fair-minded American.) The invasion of Iraq and other costly wars now being planned in secret are fattening the ever-growing military-industrial complex of which President Eisenhower warned in his great farewell address. War profits are booming, as is the case in all wars. While young Americans die, profits go up. But our economy is not booming, and our stock market is not booming. Our wages and incomes are not booming. While waging a war against Iraq, the Bush Administration is waging another war against the well-being of America... More here
Illogical, incoherent remarkes, conflating this war with Vietnam (a favorite tack of the left) from a man whose opinions are now almost as marginal as your thinking.
He still sounds like sour grapes from his ass kicking (and boy, he really got his ass kicked.....that election reminded me of our WCQ in Foxboro against Barbados) in the 84 election......
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA It's not surprising that every mainstream democrat runs from McGovern like he has leprosy or plague. Good God George, you got the electoral stomping to end all electoral stompings. Live with it. Bile just doesn't become anybody.
"Meanwhile, such fundamental building blocks of national security as full employment and a strong labor movement are of no concern. The nearly $1.5 trillion tax giveaway, largely for the further enrichment of those already rich, will have to be made up by cutting government services and shifting a larger share of the tax burden to workers and the elderly. " People can laugh at McGovern, but the quote above is undeniably true. I like Universal's posts so long as he doesn't quote Bush's running mate and partner in crime, Ralph Nader.
more FLA democrats voted for bush than for nader... traitorous dems have themselves to blame, not nader.
Man, how many people passed by this naked hottie without commenting? It was '72, and Nixon cheated like hell. That cheating didn't affect the outcome, but it affected the size of the asskicking.
So, you are saying that McGovern doesn't speak for the left in the USA? I mean, when Joe Pak is the first to reference Fawell and Rush as speaking for the right after every silly leftist comment, where does the Joe-Six-Pack draw the line?
Bwahahahahaha......sure, Nixon cheated like hell. But you're right, I mixed up this ass kicking with Mondale's ass kicking in 84 (those democratic ass kickings where they win one whole state and DC are so hard to keep straight), although I'd wager to say you're confusing the 'cheating' done in Nixon's 72 election with the cheating done by Kennedy in Nixon's 60 election.
McGovern is doing what he's always done, starting with the combat missions he flew over Germany in WWII: putting his ass on the line, in this case for the gutless snivelers that are presenting themselves as Democratic candidates for president. He's got a hell of lot more substance and has served his country in a thousand different ways more than that flatulent hatemonger Falwell and that pustule Limbaugh and in no way whatsoever deserves to be compared to them.
Tell that to joe next time, meat head. (meat head is an All in the Family reset, not a personal attack.)
I'll wear it with pride. But only cause I'm too drunk at the moment to come up witha stinging rejoinder. (Post indoor trip to the bar.) Boy are you lucky.
Yeah, that had such a massive effect on McGovern's ass kicking in the election...maybe without Watergate McGovern wins three whole states in the election.