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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-25-04 09:26 PM
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30. They both sucked really bad.
Nixon beat them both. Think about it.
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  -DUers Who Were Around: Compare McGovern and Humphrey WillyBrandt  Jul-25-04 07:21 PM   #0 
  - Robert Kennedy  DemocratSinceBirth   Jul-25-04 07:23 PM   #1 
  - Clearly, but between McG & HHH  WillyBrandt   Jul-25-04 07:23 PM   #2 
  - Neither One Of Them Were Particularly Charismatic.....  DemocratSinceBirth   Jul-25-04 07:26 PM   #3 
  - In 1968 I was too young to vote  dflprincess   Jul-25-04 07:43 PM   #11 
  - Humphrey was very much the Happy Warrior type.  Davis_X_Machina   Jul-25-04 07:28 PM   # 
  - HHH Was an Orator  CO Liberal   Jul-25-04 07:28 PM   #4 
     - I agree - the innovative cash to everyone would have worked if McG  papau   Jul-25-04 07:47 PM   #14 
     - The Earned Income Tax Credit is essentially the same  2004 Victory   Jul-25-04 07:50 PM   #17 
        - True :-)  papau   Jul-25-04 08:07 PM   #21 
     - Humphrey was a good speaker  dflprincess   Jul-25-04 09:17 PM   #27 
  - Kennedy was SO inspirational  Capn Sunshine   Jul-25-04 09:28 PM   #31 
  - That's a tough one  proud2Blib   Jul-25-04 07:31 PM   #5 
  - He replaced him with Sargent Shriver, first director of the peace corp  JohnKleeb   Jul-25-04 07:32 PM   #6 
  - That doesn't sound right--HHH almost won, McG lost in a landslide  WillyBrandt   Jul-25-04 07:34 PM   #8 
     - Ive read that if Humphrey had one more day  JohnKleeb   Jul-25-04 07:38 PM   #10 
     - Also:  H2O Man   Jul-25-04 07:46 PM   #13 
        - I just finished the third Caro book--I feel that an effective President  WillyBrandt   Jul-25-04 07:50 PM   #16 
        - It was the electric shock treatments that doomed Eagleton.  2004 Victory   Jul-25-04 07:52 PM   #19 
  - HH Humphrey was a great speaker  H2O Man   Jul-25-04 07:33 PM   #7 
  - Humphrey was the better campaigner by far....  Rowdyboy   Jul-25-04 07:36 PM   #9 
  - Something to remember about McGovern is that he wasn't even on  2004 Victory   Jul-25-04 07:45 PM   #12 
  - Nixon and China.  hedda_foil   Jul-25-04 08:35 PM   #24 
  - Hubert Humphrey, hands down  Jack Rabbit   Jul-25-04 07:49 PM   #15 
  - As a politician...  Tosca   Jul-25-04 07:52 PM   #18 
  - Humphrey  salonghorn70   Jul-25-04 08:02 PM   #20 
  - The politics of joy!  H2O Man   Jul-25-04 08:22 PM   #22 
  - HHS's humanity was tremendous  bringbackfdr   Jul-25-04 08:32 PM   #23 
     - Make that HHH's ...  bringbackfdr   Jul-25-04 08:36 PM   #25 
  - What did Humphrey really think of Vietnam?  DerekG   Jul-25-04 09:12 PM   #26 
  - Read any of the Lyndon Johnson transcripts from the time  2004 Victory   Jul-25-04 09:30 PM   #33 
  - Humphrey, but that wasn't the issue  union_maid   Jul-25-04 09:22 PM   #28 
  - HHH--------------Big HEART n/t  UTUSN   Jul-25-04 09:24 PM   #29 
  - They both sucked really bad.  bemildred   Jul-25-04 09:26 PM   #30 
     - Unfair. Nixon was an extremely good and clever politician.  WillyBrandt   Jul-25-04 09:30 PM   #32 
        - No he was not. He was an asshole.  bemildred   Jul-25-04 09:37 PM   #34 
           - He was an asshole and an extremely good politician.  WillyBrandt   Jul-25-04 10:02 PM   #35 
 

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