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DDySiegs

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17. The Results of the Last Boloxed Dem Convention
Sat Jul 20, 2024, 11:09 PM
Jul 2024

For those who are not as old as I am, let me tell you a bit about the election that occurred iin 1968.

First you should understand that that year started off with Lyndon Johnson announcing he would not seek a second term. (Think Viet Nam war.) This soon led to the feeling that the best Dem candidate would be one Robert Kennedy (obviously to be strongly distinguished from his stupid and inept son who has been trying to confuse this year’s current election campaign by idioticallly touting his anti- vax nonsense). Alas, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan. So then the Dems had to switch to Senator Hubert Humphrey. He would have made a fine President. But that didn’t work out because the Democratic Convention in Chicago was a disaster. People had voted for Kennedy and Humphrey in the primaries, but the anti Vietnam war leaning Dem electorate together with the stupidly evil antics of the Chicago mayor Richard J Dailey turned the covention into a forum of confusion and internecine rancor which eventually nominated Humphrey.

In my view that messed up covention played a very big role in the the resulting victory of the Republican candidate.

And who was that candidate - - why it was none other than the man who was the SECOND WORST PRESIDENT we’ve ever had, Richard Milhaus Nixon. (I bet you can guess who the WORST president was.)

If certain Dem members of Congress and self important and totally misguided big donors keep mistreating Biden the way they so stupidly and/or selfishly have done since The Debate, we are going to finish the nominating process in the same catastrophic way the 1968 Dems did and we might very well get the worst president ever for a second and vastly more dangerous time.

To those who have been hell bent on repeating 1968 - - WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!!!


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Posted on Facebook today regarding Biden [View all] markpkessinger Jul 2024 OP
Excellent! Thanks for this! Ocelot II Jul 2024 #1
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Second line to that sueroseus Jul 2024 #9
It's AI generated panic. dchill Jul 2024 #10
I'm a lifelong Democrat who voted for Biden in the primary Martin Eden Jul 2024 #22
I'm with you mia Jul 2024 #25
A Trump presidency will hurt your friends, and pretty much everyone Martin Eden Jul 2024 #26
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If they're not Democrats and/or want Trump to win Martin Eden Jul 2024 #23
Perhaps not, but... radical noodle Jul 2024 #28
Excellent! liberalmuse Jul 2024 #3
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Republicans have zero legal basis to challenge how Democrats choose their candidate. n/t Ms. Toad Jul 2024 #31
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A lot of these wealthy guys are making money making bets on the outcome of the election. summer_in_TX Jul 2024 #15
For Dems to have gone to the media asking him to step aside was insane Jarqui Jul 2024 #16
The Results of the Last Boloxed Dem Convention DDySiegs Jul 2024 #17
If you're against President Biden dai13sy Jul 2024 #18
So then, Adam Schiff and a host of other elected Democrats Martin Eden Jul 2024 #24
Differing view EQuerulousUnum Jul 2024 #19
I'm reccing this post and the OP as well Martin Eden Jul 2024 #20
"They need inspiring." TwilightZone Jul 2024 #21
Agree, but this is reality EQuerulousUnum Jul 2024 #30
Thank you for this. Joinfortmill Jul 2024 #27
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