No whitewash for the garrulous Gipper
Now here's a specimen of one with actual Guts and demonstrable brains, thus incomprehensible alien to the Nintendo Eloi-class:
[link|http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/06/07/mccarthy/index_np.html| Eugene McCarthy]. While Ronnie had yet even to sidle into GE Home Theatre, Gene was [alone] willing to face the Bogeyman from Wisconsin.
Antiwar heroNatch he's 180\ufffd from your rusted-in-place compass.. why he even imagined that "SOCIALIZED" concern for elderly, disabled might be OK! Now as to the reborn Trotskyites of your buds in the PNAC - oh wait.. yours is a Pure-blog edjaKayshun, so origins of mindsets would be another foreign concept.
He made history by challenging a president who had plunged the nation into a calamitous war. More than three decades later, Gene McCarthy reflects on his legendary race against Lyndon Johnson -- and the current campaign to unseat George W. Bush.
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By John F. Callahan
June 7, 2004 | At the end of November in 1967 when the Vietnam War seemed at the point of no return, with chaos on campuses and violence in the streets of American cities, Sen. Eugene McCarthy did what in those days was unthinkable: He challenged an incumbent president for the nomination of their party.
Running against Lyndon Johnson was not the first time Gene McCarthy had shown iconoclastic courage. In 1952, at the height of Sen. Joseph McCarthy's popularity, when not a single senator would step forward to debate the subversive-chasing demagogue, 32-year-old, second-term congressman Eugene McCarthy came forward to oppose Sen. McCarthy (no relation) on the Radio Forum of the Air. Throughout the 1950s and '60s, Gene McCarthy sought to curb the influence of the CIA and the military-industrial complex on American foreign policy, and as a senator he led the fight to extend Social Security coverage to the mentally and physically disabled.
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