On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:07 AM, frank theriault wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:37 PM, P N Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: > > <snip> Nixon won the '68 electon because Humphrey wasn't a viable alternative. > <snip> > > He also won because someone shot Bobby Kennedy. I suspect that the > world might be considerably different today had Kennedy become > president of the USA. > Kennedy was lionized by the left after he was shot, but, like his brother, he was pretty much of a centrist at the time. I was an avowed lefty at the time, a radical by some measures, and Gene McCarthy was the strong anti-war candidate. The Democrat establishment of the day didn't want a liberal president. Paul
> Mind you, I thought things might change after Obama was elected... > > :-( > > ever the naive optomist, > frank > > > > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
