On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 8:13 PM Dayne Goodwin via groups.io <daynegoodwin= [email protected]> wrote: > > another note of possible interest: last time an incumbent president > decided not to run for re-election and the VP stepped up, Hubert > Humphrey described his perspective as "the politics of joy" > > The Specter of Hubert Humphrey Haunts Kamala Harris > A Democratic convention in Chicago isn’t the summer’s only echo with 1968. > by Norman Solomon, Truthdig, August 15 https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-specter-of-hubert-humphrey-haunts-kamala-harris/ > . . . > Campaigning for joy while supporting horrendous warfare is nothing > new. Fifty-six years before Vice President Harris called herself a > “joyful warrior,” Vice President Humphrey declared that he stood for > the “politics of joy” when announcing his run for the 1968 Democratic > presidential nomination. > > At that point, the Pentagon was several years into its massive killing > spree in Vietnam, as Humphrey kicked off his campaign by saying: “Here > we are the spirit of dedication; here we are the way politics ought to > be in America, the politics of happiness, politics of purpose, > politics of joy. And that’s the way it’s going to be, all the way, > too, from here on out.” > > If Harris loses to Trump after sticking with her support for arming > the slaughter in Gaza, historians will likely echo words from Offner, > who wrote that after the 1968 election Humphrey “asked himself > repeatedly whether he should have distanced himself sooner from > President Johnson on the war. The answer was all too obvious.” > # # # >
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