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The Long Voyage of George McGovern

peggy149 Wrote: Oct 26, 2012 7:54 AM
well, now if you aren't a little collective living moron, sounds like commie/marxist to me, all the government needs and should do, is to protect the nation from foreign and domestic evil...........that's it's bubba, anything else is totally wrong...............THAT'S called freedom!!! if that's all the government did, we wouldn't be 16T in debt and every man, women and child would not owe 50K!!! to a government that's corrupt, the demonrats like the entitelments, to keep us down on the planations, mcgovern, was nothing but a commie himself............."HELP FEED SOUTH DAKOTA" was one of he's babies, you teach a person to fish wasn't his moto.

He had to have run the worst, most disorganized and demoralizing, indeed chaotic presidential campaign in recent history. It was a perfect, agonizing reflection of the jumbled times. A kind of microcosm of the Sixties as things fell apart in that mood-altering era -- before they congealed into the leisure-suited Seventies, when the utter mediocre could be delivered in flashy packaging. Think of that photograph of Richard Nixon posing awkwardly, as he did everything else, with Elvis Presley. That about sums up that strange time.


If poor George McGovern didn't head the worst presidential campaign of...

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