Anyone else remember what happened back in 1968 when the

[hedgehog]

Party establishment decided to go with Humphrey?

[TwilightGardener]

1. Well, I wasn't born yet, but I've never heard of a President Humphrey.

So I'm guessing it didn't end well.

[DJ13]

This is what happened..........

[dflprincess]

13. I think we're way more apt to see those scenes at the Republican Convention

n/t

[JVS]

2. this

[hedgehog]

10. That's the answer I was looking for. Anyone who thinks defeating

McCain is a given should remember 1968.

[rug]

15. Nixon wasn't preceded by 8 years of Bush. McCain is finished before he begins.

[Fredda Weinberg]

3. Yes, what do you wnt to know? n/t

[RummyTheDummy]

4. I wasn't alive then....

But know about it and was wondering if the Hillary supporters will resort to violence if it goes to the convention and they don't get what they want.

[GoldieAZ49]

7. yeah I can just see her base of older women getting violent.....NOT now look at BO's base

and decide for yourself which is more likely to be violent if their candidate isn't selected by the super d's

[TwilightGardener]

8. self-delete, trying to use better judgment...

[Madam Mossfern]

9. It was Mayor Daley's police

that were violent. I remember it well as a McCarthy supporter.

[GoldieAZ49]

16. It wasn't pretty, I watched on tv, good thing it isn't in chicago this year...n/t

[RummyTheDummy]

19. I don't know, my lesbian friends are pretty tough.

[cd3dem]

25. women are tough... either way they swing

[cd3dem]

24. you must be single buddy! because this woman can hold her own!

now I am not for violence but I have protested a time or two!

and I bet the young puppies for Obama are rookies!

[GoldieAZ49]

26. I am a woman, I have held my own more than once, but this isn't worth it to me

I am damn sure am not going to get in a physical confrontation for any politician

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. I do. 2008 won't be like '68.

We wanted to overthrow the whole rotten system. There is no such movement today. Obama isn't Gene McCarthy and there's no revolution.

[rug]

6. RFK edged out McCarthy, then was killed. McGovern made a very late entrance.

There really was no contender against Humphrey after June 4. The riots were caused by police and Chicago politicians.

There is no analogy to Obama there, Chicago excluded.

[GoldieAZ49]

11. no similarities regarding the mood of the nation

remember Bobby and King had just been assassinated, we had a draft that was sending young men to a war they didn't want to fight.

Protests were going on around the country on campus, covert agents were active, drug use was high (pun?)

It is a different climate today.

[rug]

12. That's true. I don't see riots over health care plans.

[GoldieAZ49]

18. Can't afford to get hurt!

:rofl:

[rug]

20. Hell, No, We Won't Bleed, HMO Will Be Too Peeved!

:rofl:

[Blue_In_AK]

14. That was the first year I could have voted

and I didn't because I was so pissed off. In retrospect, President Humphrey might not have been so bad...a hell of a lot better that Nixon, but I was young and didn't think things through.

[rug]

17. I went with Eldridge Cleaver and the Peace and Freedom Party.

[rasputin1952]

22. The war would have ended, the push for Civil Rights would

have continued at a far better pace, the infrastructure would have been enhanced...a whole lot of positives would have come from a Humphrey administration.

He was a humanitarian, he fought incessantly for human rights. Humphrey was one of the guiding lights that brought the Democratic Party out of the racism and divisiveness that the Southern D's, (who are now the Southern R's after the defections), had imposed upon the nation.

The single best thing about Humphrey, is that he never gave up trying to find ways to make peoples lives better.

As for the riots, which helped propel Nixon forward on a "law and order" platform, they were the fault of Daley and the Chicago PD hierarchy. Daley was a mean SOB, and he had no problem allowing things to happen that proved violent, if he felt it would benefit him.

[hedgehog]

23. You ought to make that an entirely seperate post! nt

[Old Codger]

21. you bet

I remember, I voted for Humphry and when my friends voted for tricky dicky I warned them to hold on to their asses as they were in for a hell of a ride, and I was sure right.