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Thu Dec-16-04 05:45 PM
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Humphrey, McGovern or Mondale which would have been best president? |
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Three great Americans and great liberals--which one would have been the best president?
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Thu Dec-16-04 05:46 PM
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Thu Dec-16-04 05:47 PM
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4. Adlai Stevenson-----sorry! Humphrey #2 IMHO. n/t |
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Thu Dec-16-04 05:50 PM
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I'm too young to know the particulars about him, but my dad STILL admires him and mentions him whenever politics comes up.
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Thu Dec-16-04 08:25 PM
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23. Adlai was brilliant ,witty,and a phenomenal speaker. n/t |
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Thu Dec-16-04 05:48 PM
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Edited on Thu Dec-16-04 05:49 PM by Old and In the Way
He was the 1st guy a canvassed for in 72. The parallels to Bush/Kerry are eerily similar.
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Thu Dec-16-04 05:49 PM
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because he was such a damn good VP!
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Thu Dec-16-04 05:49 PM
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7. They would all have been better than what we got instead. I'm |
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just not knowledgeable enough about any of them to know if it's possible to know the answer to that challenging query.
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Thu Dec-16-04 05:52 PM
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They'd have all been great, though.
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Thu Dec-16-04 06:00 PM
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13. There is absolutely NO doubt - George McGovern! |
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Humphrey was horrible on Vietnam. There's a good chance he would have been worse than Nixon in perpetuating that criminal enterprise. That reason alone is enough to disqualify him from progressive support. Mondale was too much aligned with Carter for me personally. He approved of Carter's deregulation and laissez-faire policies that I feel opened that way for the 1980s "free market" cult.
McGovern was principled and defended the existence of a social and democratic state committed to the general welfare of the people.
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Thu Dec-16-04 06:01 PM
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Edited on Thu Dec-16-04 06:01 PM by David__77
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Thu Dec-16-04 06:17 PM
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15. Humphrey and Stevenson first |
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Then Mondale, then McGovern.
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Thu Dec-16-04 06:27 PM
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16. But Weaver and Bryan own them all |
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Thu Dec-16-04 06:29 PM
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17. McGovern or Mondale.. |
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if McGovern had been elected there would of been no Watergate, an immediate end to the war, and national healthcare. One interesting result is that McGovern would probably not had been re-elected, meaning no Jimmy Carter..but also would of meant a Democratic President in the 80's.
If Mondale had won he would have been re-elected. The national debt be insignificant and there would of been no war in Iraq. Unfortunately this would of meant no Bill Clinton, and perhaps a Republican President in the 90's.
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Thu Dec-16-04 06:48 PM
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where do you think he'd fall on this list?
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Thu Dec-16-04 07:23 PM
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He would have been a solid president, probably better than Clinton
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Thu Dec-16-04 08:29 PM
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would have been a very worthy president. It would have been a different world if he'd been elected.
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Thu Dec-16-04 07:41 PM
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By far the most visionary and most human.
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Thu Dec-16-04 07:57 PM
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Partisan affiliation aside, he was one of the finest men ever to run for president.
Ironically, he lost to one of the worst.
Humphrey on the other hand deserved to lose, for his slavish devotion to Johnson's disastrous foreign policy. He is perhaps the greatest example of a Democrat who defied both morality and political expediency, and was soundly defeated for it.
At that time my father was a young man, whose close friends had returned home from Vietnam in boxes or with permanent injuries. He knew he was likely on the verge of being drafted too, possibly dying for a hopeless cause that he deeply opposed.
Nixon implied that he had a plan to end the war soon, which certainly sounded better than continuing the current policy, of which Humphrey was an avid supporter. Humphrey finally tried to reverse himself at the last minute, but was too late for anyone to believe him.
So my father, a lifelong Democrat and hardcore liberal, feeling betrayed by his own party, voted for a Republican for the first and only time in his life, out of sheer desperation. Of course, we now know that Nixon's plan only ended the war after wasting tens of thousands more American lives.
I used to make fun of him for voting for Nixon, but now that I am at the same hazardous age he was, his logic is painfully understandable.
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Thu Dec-16-04 08:27 PM
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24. McGovern No doubt eom |
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