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WillyBrandt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:21 PM Original message |
DUers Who Were Around: Compare McGovern and Humphrey |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. Robert Kennedy |
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WillyBrandt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:23 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Clearly, but between McG & HHH |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Neither One Of Them Were Particularly Charismatic..... |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:43 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. In 1968 I was too young to vote |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:28 PM Original message |
Humphrey was very much the Happy Warrior type. |
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CO Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:28 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. HHH Was an Orator |
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papau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:47 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. I agree - the innovative cash to everyone would have worked if McG |
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Zen Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:50 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. The Earned Income Tax Credit is essentially the same |
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papau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 08:07 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. True :-) |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 09:17 PM Response to Reply #4 |
27. Humphrey was a good speaker |
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Capn Sunshine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 09:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
31. Kennedy was SO inspirational |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
5. That's a tough one |
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JohnKleeb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:32 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. He replaced him with Sargent Shriver, first director of the peace corp |
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WillyBrandt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:34 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. That doesn't sound right--HHH almost won, McG lost in a landslide |
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JohnKleeb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:38 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Ive read that if Humphrey had one more day |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:46 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Also: |
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WillyBrandt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:50 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. I just finished the third Caro book--I feel that an effective President |
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Zen Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:52 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. It was the electric shock treatments that doomed Eagleton. |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
7. HH Humphrey was a great speaker |
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Rowdyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:36 PM Response to Original message |
9. Humphrey was the better campaigner by far.... |
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Zen Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
12. Something to remember about McGovern is that he wasn't even on |
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hedda_foil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 08:35 PM Response to Reply #12 |
24. Nixon and China. |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
15. Hubert Humphrey, hands down |
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Tosca (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
18. As a politician... |
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salonghorn70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
20. Humphrey |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 08:22 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. The politics of joy! |
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bringbackfdr (196 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 08:32 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. HHS's humanity was tremendous |
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bringbackfdr (196 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 08:36 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Make that HHH's ... |
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DerekG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
26. What did Humphrey really think of Vietnam? |
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Zen Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 09:30 PM Response to Reply #26 |
33. Read any of the Lyndon Johnson transcripts from the time |
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union_maid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
28. Humphrey, but that wasn't the issue |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
29. HHH--------------Big HEART n/t |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
30. They both sucked really bad. |
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WillyBrandt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 09:30 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Unfair. Nixon was an extremely good and clever politician. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 09:37 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. No he was not. He was an asshole. |
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WillyBrandt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-04 10:02 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. He was an asshole and an extremely good politician. |
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