tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123986840630926993.post7175063959838428146..comments2023-09-07T02:33:38.579-06:00Comments on Mental Detritus: A Time for UnityJohn J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15113315088960432426noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123986840630926993.post-75107206885927037842008-06-03T08:39:00.000-06:002008-06-03T08:39:00.000-06:00Slappz, I will not brook racism on my blog. If you...Slappz, I will not brook racism on my blog. If you want to repost your comment without the racist comments, it will stay, but I will delete racism.John J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15113315088960432426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123986840630926993.post-59367832640746220982008-06-03T08:14:00.000-06:002008-06-03T08:14:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.no_slappzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04207475509053402475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123986840630926993.post-42138232634611163112008-06-03T05:52:00.000-06:002008-06-03T05:52:00.000-06:00I don't know much about the '72 election, so I can...I don't know much about the '72 election, so I can't really say much here. However, I don't think you can really compare any previous election to this to get an exact answer what will happen in this. In the Democratic primary, Obama has re-written some of the common expectations and I expect that to carry through to the general.<BR/><BR/>As for your bumper sticker, slappz, I won't be surprised to see it, but it won't have much affect. Republicans who campaign using something like that are counting on the American public being complete idiots. The Democrats respect the public more and Obama is the first candidate in a long time to talk to us as if we are adults - and it has worked. In fact, 18% of the country thinks Obama is a secret Muslim, but there is also the 12% of the country that thinks the earth is flat and "it's elephants all the way down." I'll stick with the 80%.John J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15113315088960432426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123986840630926993.post-33121879678339799852008-06-02T22:07:00.000-06:002008-06-02T22:07:00.000-06:00d-cap, no two events are exactly and precisely equ...d-cap, no two events are exactly and precisely equivalent. But as you might remember from high school, you were probably asked to COMPARE and CONTRAST two situations.<BR/><BR/>If we COMPARE and CONTRAST the 1972 presidential election with the 2008 race, we will find lots of overlap and some differences.<BR/><BR/>Nixon was hated by Democrats with the same ferocity Bush is hated today by the same party and many of the same people. Spiro Agnew was as detested as Dick Cheney.<BR/><BR/>McGovern was the anti-war healer determined to lead the country in a new direction. <BR/><BR/>Pauline Kael, film critic for the New Yorker famously said, "How did Nixon win? I don't know anyone who voted for him."<BR/><BR/>Her naivete was repeated by several million others. <BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, the Watergate case had not surfaced, not that it mattered. McGovern was crushed, and his crushing defeat had nothing to do with information the Watergate burlars might have obtained.<BR/><BR/>As for the economy, well, you better check your history books. In 1972 Nixon authorized wage and price controls, the stock market was sagging and on its way to bottoming in 1974.<BR/><BR/>Gas was not 35 cents a gallon in 1972. Maybe 50 cents. Big percentage difference. And we were heading into the first arab oil embargo.<BR/><BR/>You can rip McCain from now till election day, but his weaknesses are far less serious than Obama's. <BR/><BR/>Soon you will see the following bumper sticker:<BR/><BR/>McCain, not Husseinno_slappzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04207475509053402475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123986840630926993.post-51558032509052158452008-06-02T17:41:00.000-06:002008-06-02T17:41:00.000-06:00except obama is up against a loose cannon loser an...except obama is up against a loose cannon loser and lover of war like mccain -- and nixon was an incumbent.<BR/><BR/>and the economy wasnt in the toilet like it is now and gas was 35 cents a gallon - and then there is that pesky watergate break in which was someone meant to help nixon get reelected<BR/><BR/>yep 1972 and 2008 twin pillarsDistributorcaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10149154929149577121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4123986840630926993.post-87194900340541578672008-06-01T14:48:00.000-06:002008-06-01T14:48:00.000-06:00Undoubtedly McCain staffers are happy about the pe...Undoubtedly McCain staffers are happy about the pending nomination of Obama.<BR/><BR/>This election looks like 1972 in many ways. Obama is riding a wave of anti-war sentiment, the giddiness of the youth vote and the broad, fuzzy and undefined desire for change -- not that anything about his campaign demonstrates a hint of change.<BR/><BR/>Sounds like George McGovern. The McGovern who was adored by Democrats. The McGovern who lost in a landslide.no_slappzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04207475509053402475noreply@blogger.com